BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18266-dfc82d6e55cddaca3e7c9d6d0ebb7651@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260408T082450Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T170000 SUMMARY:“Analyzing environmental discourse: A critical approach” DESCRIPTION:\nThe reality of global ecological devastation might seem to call for crisis scholarship\, where we do everything we can to support the environmental movement. And yet not all environmentalisms are innoce nt: from eco-fascism to greenwashing and neoliberal conservation\, green movements are as divided by the politics of social difference\, of nati onalism\, and of diverse accommodations with capitalism as are other soc ial movements. This book thus offers a critical toolkit for discourse an alysts to get to the heart of this complexity. Building on analysis from feminist\, queer\, anti-racist\, Indigenous\, and decolonial scholars a cross disciplines the book contributes new case studies\, focused discou rse analysis\, and an ecointersectional normative framework to map out d iscursive formations.\n\nScott Burnett is an assistant professor of Afri can studies and women’s\, gender\, and sexuality studies at the Penn Sta te and a research affiliate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies in Johannesburg. His research focuses on exclusionary discourses of race\, gender\, and sexuality in a range of contexts from online masculinist in fluencers to the mainstream environmental movement. He is the author of White belongings: Race\, land\, and property in post-apartheid South Afr ica (Lexington\, 2022) as well as articles in leading journals including Men and Masculinities and Gender and Language.\n\nFor more details: htt ps://events.la.psu.edu/event/analyzing-environmental-discourse/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The reality of global ecological devastation might seem to call for crisis scholarship, where we do everything we can to support the environmental movement. An d yet not all environmentalisms are innocent: from eco-fascism to greenw ashing and neoliberal conservation, green movements are as divided by th e politics of social difference, of nationalism, and of diverse accommod ations with capitalism as are other social movements. This book thus off ers a critical toolkit for discourse analysts to get to the heart of thi s complexity. Building on analysis from feminist, queer, anti-racist, In digenous, and decolonial scholars across disciplines the book contribute s new case studies, focused discourse analysis, and an ecointersectional normative framework to map out discursive formations.

Scott Burne tt is an assistant professor of African studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the Penn State and a research affiliate at the Wit s Centre for Diversity Studies in Johannesburg. His research focuses on exclusionary discourses of race, gender, and sexuality in a range of con texts from online masculinist influencers to the mainstream environmenta l movement. He is the author of White belongings: Race, land, and pr operty in post-apartheid South Africa (Lexington, 2022) as well as articles in leading journals including Men and Masculinities an d Gender and Language.

For more details: https://eve nts.la.psu.edu/event/analyzing-environmental-discourse/

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