The evolution of the super-whale. Complexity and simplicity in environmental communication. (January 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The evolution of the super-whale. Complexity and simplicity in environmental communication. (January 2019)
- Main Title:
- The evolution of the super-whale. Complexity and simplicity in environmental communication
- Authors:
- Singleton, Benedict E.
- Abstract:
- Abstract: This article discusses the tendency within environmental communication to homogenise diverse situations. Utilising the case of whale conservation it describes how actors on both sides of the whaling debate utilise the 'super-whale' – a homogenised discursive construct. The article argues that there are pragmatic advantages to such framing of environmental situations but also costs. In the case of whale conservation, the super-whale maintains focus on whaling rather than other, arguably more pressing, threats to whale species. More generally, utilising such framing tactics arguably prevent the voicing of new narratives about the global social order.
- Is Part Of:
- Marine policy. Volume 99(2019)
- Journal:
- Marine policy
- Issue:
- Volume 99(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 99, Issue 2019 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 99
- Issue:
- 2019
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0099-2019-0000
- Page Start:
- 170
- Page End:
- 172
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01
- Subjects:
- Whaling -- Whales -- Framing -- Supermantra -- Environmental communication
Marine resources -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals
Fisheries -- Periodicals
Ressources marines -- Aspect économique -- Périodiques
Pêches -- Périodiques
Fisheries
Marine resources -- Economic aspects
Periodicals
333.916405 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0308597X ↗
http://www.elsevier.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.10.018 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0308-597X
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- Legaldeposit
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