ABSTRACT

This book examines the role of the media in environmental politics and activism in the 21st century. It highlights how politics is mediated in myriad ways through newspapers and news channels, through mobile telephony and through social networking sites. Further, it shows how the media creates and influences relevant discourses, builds campaigns and awareness, and adopts and discards issues.

With a range of perspectives on issues of environmental justice and equity, the volume scrutinizes how the media discourse on environment shapes our politics, and the role of international politics, finance, youth, newspapers, magazines and 24-hour television.

Bringing together academics, activists and media persons, this highly topical book will serve as significant reading for researchers and scholars of development studies and media studies, as well as policymakers, NGOs and environmental campaigners.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

part |77 pages

Media and Environmental Discourse in India

chapter |19 pages

Greenathon

Organizing the Social-Conscience of Post-Liberalization Urban India

chapter |12 pages

New Delhi's Times

Creating a Myth for a City

chapter |24 pages

Banishing the Hyphen

The Rural-Urban Divide and Mainstream Television in India

chapter |20 pages

Politics of Body Spectacle

Old Movements Creating New(s) Stories

part |77 pages

Case Studies: India and the World

chapter |23 pages

A Coming-Out Party for Indian Waste Pickers?

Pondering the Dilemmas of Making Local Environmentalism Global

chapter |28 pages

Not Politics of the Usual

Youth Environmental Movements