Dear all,

 

Apologies if this is off topic but I thought my recent paper in Marine Policy might be of interest to some list members:

 

Singleton, B. E. (2019) The evolution of the super-whale. Complexity and simplicity in environmental communication. Marine Policy. 99:170-172.

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.

It’ll be freely available to download for a month or so:

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X1730845X?dgcid=author

 

Thanks,

 

 

Benedict Singleton

Postdoctoral Researcher

Swedish Biodiversity Centre

Swedish University of Agricultural Science

Uppsala

Sweden

 

Email:Benedict.singleton@slu.se

Tel.: +46 736181689

 

Most recent papers:

Singleton, B.E. (2019). The evolution of the super-whale. Complexity and simplicity in environmental communication. Marine Policy, 99:170-172.

Singleton, B. E. & R. Lidskog (2018). Science, red in tooth and claw: whaling, purity, pollution and institutions in marine mammal scientists’ boundary work. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1(1-2):165-185.

 

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benedict_Singleton

Academia.edu: https://slu-se.academia.edu/BenedictSingleton

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedict-singleton-9320937