If protesters take to the streets at climate summits, start anti-fracking camps, or take direct action over airport expansion, should they run the risk of arrest?
The author addresses this question by drawing on research in environmental and media politics to take a closer look at why it’s acceptable to find climate change solutions in economics, but not acceptable to stop the source of climate change through direct action and protest camps. Taking the reader through different cultural, political and socio-economic landscapes of environmental activism, the author examines the ecoActivist movement in the UK to understand where environmental politics, economics and contentious politics sit within the climate debate.
Proposing an original theorization of the relationship between the state, activists and traditional media, the book illustrates how current climate change solutions shift between environmental governance, free-market economics, and activism nestled in media discourse
