Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming.
Attuned to Plastic attachments, Beyond Straw Men illustrates how everyday people resist unsustainable patterns of the plastics-industrial complex through imperfect but impactful Networked Cultures of care..
She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis and an entry point into the contested environmental politics of carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, Pollution colonialism, and waste imperialism.
Pezzullo engages public controversies and policies through analysis of hashtag activism, campaign materials, and podcast interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States, and Vietnam.
Inspired by on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C.
Beyond Straw Men moves Beyond hot take or Straw man fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change.
Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound.
Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming
