“Everything Is Not Awesome”

2021 ◽  
pp. 540-566
Author(s):  
Kate Galloway
Keyword(s):  
Oil Industry ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Audiovisual Communication ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Public Protest ◽  
Royal Dutch Shell ◽  
Slow Violence

In 2014, Greenpeace released a new installment of their “Save the Arctic” campaign, which promotes environmental stewardship and advertises the international nongovernmental organization. The music video “LEGO: Everything Is Not Awesome” reinterprets Tegan and Sara/The Lonely Island’s exuberant anthem “Everything Is Awesome” from The LEGO Movie (2014) as a melancholy lament, using musical parody to pressure the LEGO corporation to end its marketing link with Royal Dutch Shell in response to Shell’s plans to drill in the Arctic. The video features an Arctic entirely made of LEGO with cameo appearances by characters from The LEGO Movie, depicting the slow violence of an oil spill decimating the Arctic ecosystem. This advertisement, among others, was released in the context of public protest and political controversy over the environmental and social risks associated with the oil industry. It is one of many examples of Greenpeace’s use of audiovisual communication strategies to sell environmental issues and brand the organization as a leader in the environmental movement. This chapter analyzes a collection of Greenpeace advertisement videos from their “Save the Arctic” campaign, sketching the sonic choices and processes of musical adaptation used to communicate environmental risk and progressive environmental policy.

scholarly journals Introduction

2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Davids Hinton
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Royal Dutch Shell ◽  
Volume History

This issue brings together five articles on the modern petroleum industry. Two cover the growth of the industry in the early twentieth century: Michael Adamson's study of the development of California's coastal oil region by independent oilman Ralph Lloyd; and the study by Lisa Bud-Frierman, Andrew Godley, and Judith Wale of the British entrepreneur Weetman Pearson's operations in Mexico. Two articles treat the post–World War II period: Nathan Citano looks at the budding interests of U.S. oilmen in the Middle East and Daniele Pozzi traces the transformation of the Italian company ENI into an international oil firm. Finally, Keetie Sluyterman examines the ways in which Royal Dutch Shell handled environmental issues from its inception in 1907 to the present. The issue also contains a survey of recent historiography on the oil industry in Latin America by Marcelo Bucheli and a review essay by James Bamberg on a recent four-volume history of Royal Dutch Shell.

Journalism as an Advocacy Tool: Negotiating Boundaries of Professionalism in the 20th-Century American Environmental Movement

2020 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 1080-1100
Author(s):  
Suzannah Evans Comfort
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Audubon Society ◽  
Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
The 1960S

Environmental nongovernmental organizations faced unprecedented opportunities after public interest in environmental issues exploded in the 1960s. Drawing on the official archives of the Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club, and the National Audubon Society, this study demonstrates how these organizations redeveloped their publications to take advantage of newfound public interest and political opportunities in the 1960s through the 1980s. The organizations adopted professional journalistic norms and practices in their publications to court mass appeal and gain political legitimacy, but their journalistic endeavors were hampered by internal disagreements over the use of journalism as an advocacy tool.

Far-flung female (and fossil bone hunting) Fellows: an autoethnographical approach

2020 ◽  
pp. SP506-2019-225
Author(s):  
Susan Turner
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Fossil Bone ◽  
International Union ◽  
Vertebrate Palaeontology ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractGeologists roam worldwide; no less for women who took up fellowship of the ‘Geol. Soc.’. Since 1919, women Fellows of the Geological Society have lived and worked across the globe conducting fieldwork and research. Based on the author's interests and in part considering her 50 years an FGS, a selection of women Fellows is considered, many of whom affected her geological life, such as Phoebe Walder and Peigi Wallace. This autoethnographical approach encompasses women from the colonies who joined as soon as they were able; the legendary Dorothy Hill of Queensland was one of the first, with other notable Australians being Nell Ludbrook and June Phillips Ross. Others worked across the former Gondwana, such as Pamela Robinson, who pioneered much research in vertebrate palaeontology on the Indian subcontinent. Important British geologists and vertebrate palaeontologists include Dorothea Bate, Sonia Cole, Elinor Gardner and Eileen Hendriks, who wrote key geological texts in the earlier twentieth century. More contemporary women did work for UNESCO, the International Union of Geological Sciences and in the oil industry. During the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, female Fellows have worked across the world in greater numbers in all aspects of geoscience, from the Arctic to the Antarctic.

The Reshaping of Landscapes: Systems of Mediation, War, and Slow Violence

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-368
Author(s):  
Albert L. Park
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
Theoretical Issues

John Lee's, David Fedman's, and Lisa Brady's essays persuasively show the value of studying environmental issues on the Korean peninsula. Each of the essays carefully explains how drives led by individuals and entities, such as the state, engineered nature for human needs, security, and later economic growth. In so doing, they show how these drives simultaneously altered nature and remade institutions, systems, and cultures that influenced people's agency and identity and reshaped forms of consciousness. By judiciously making visible the agents and social forces behind the reconstitution of nature, the essays collectively introduce diverse approaches to the study of environmental issues in Asia and elsewhere. Most of all, they demonstrate that transnational environmental history on the Korean peninsula can no longer be overlooked when dwelling on and debating major historical and theoretical issues in Korean, Asian, and environmental studies.

Environmental issues facing the oil industry

Energy Policy ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 950-958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Skea
Keyword(s):  
Oil Industry ◽  
Environmental Issues

Climate Change and the Oil Industry: Common Problems, Different Strategies

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Birger Skjærseth ◽  
Tora Skodvin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Science ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Home Base ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
State Actor ◽  
Royal Dutch Shell ◽  
Exxon Mobil ◽  
Primary Focus

The primary focus of most academic climate policy studies has been the robustness of climate science and the development of international negotiations and institutions, in which states, and sometimes societies, have been pinpointed as the key players. Systematic comparative studies of multinational and even global non-governmental actors have been in short supply. This research lacuna is particularly glaring since the position of a major non-state actor—the oil industry—may be crucial to the viability of the climate regime. This analysis shows that there are striking differences in the ways European-based and US-based oil companies have responded to the climate issue—here represented by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Exxon Mobil—and that one major source of explanation for this difference is found in the national political contexts of the companies' home-base countries. The importance of political context implies that the conditions for changing oil companies' climate strategies are likely to be located in the political context rather than in the companies themselves.

scholarly journals Strategic Responses to Global Climate Change: Conflicting Pressures on Multinationals in the Oil Industry

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Levy ◽  
Ans Kolk
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Global Environmental

MNCs are increasingly facing global environmental issues demanding coordinated market and non-market strategic responses. The home country institutional context and individual company histories can create divergent pressures on strategy for MNCs based in different countries; however, the location of MNCs in global industries and their participation in ‘global issues arenas’ create issue-level fields within which strategic convergence might also be expected. This paper analyzes the responses of oil MNCs to climate change and finds that local context influenced initial corporate reactions, but that convergent pressures predominate as the issue matures.

scholarly journals “Translocal” narration of environmental issue through graphic novels: two Italian case studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Antonella Rinella ◽  
Federica Epifani
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Production Model ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
Methodological Considerations

The prevalence of mainstream media as source of information on environmental issues and their tendency to draw global attention around a few major, dramatic environmental disasters (melting of glaciers in the Arctic, desertification and drought in the African continent, deforestation of the Amazon, oil pollution in the oceans, etc.), is creating in less conative readers/audience a lack of awareness of the damages suffered in the local territorial systems to which they belong and low willingness to collective action. Therefore, crossing and comparing the highest possible number of sources of information, preferring those that can generate a proactive response to events and themes concerning environmental sustainability and highlight deep local/global interconnections, is essential to attain an independent, critical, and responsible narration. After shortly illustrating some theoretical and methodological considerations developed in the areas of popular geopolitics, anti-geopolitics and ecocriticism, this paper reviews two Italian graphic novels providing a bottom-up representation of local environmental issues: the first one deals with the eutrophication of the Orbetello Lagoon (Tuscan Maremma); the second one concerns the collapse of the tailings dams of the Prestavèl fluorite mines located in Val di Stava (Trentino Alto Adige), a disaster that caused the death of 268 people. We will try to point out how the authors, who are totally “embedded” in their works, provide a “translocal” narration, condemning effectively and immediately the environmental damages in the territorial context analysed and, at the same time, highlighting the interconnections between such site-specific events and global sustainability, inviting readers to adopt an holistic view of the nature-culture relationship, beyond the anthropocentric and instrumentalist production model which considers biosphere a mere tool to satisfy the contingent needs of contemporary society.

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