Environmental Journalism in Brazil: History, Characteristics, and Framing of Disasters

Mourão, Rachel R.; Sturm, Heloisa Aruth

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70509-5_4

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“…They reported that most published studies originated in Brazil and that more than half examined either museums/science centers or media. Brazilian scholars’ output has been particularly important at the intersection of environmental and science communication (Massarani and Moreira, 2016) and environmental and science journalism (Massarani et al, 2008; Mourão and Sturm, 2018).…”

Section: A Brief Background On Latin American Communication Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Koop, 2020; Mercado-Sáez and Koop, 2018). Empirical studies have analyzed news coverage of climate change in countries such as Argentina (Mercado-Sáez, 2012), Chile (Dotson et al 2012), Mexico (Pulver and Sainz-Santamaría, 2018), and Peru (Takahashi and Meisner, 2013); local issues such as informal mining (Willer and Takahashi, 2018), species extinction (Mena-Young, 2019), and environmental disasters (Mourão and Sturm, 2018); and multi-country and comparative coverage (e.g. Pinto et al, 2017; Takahashi et al, 2018; Zamith et al, 2013).…”

Section: Mediating Environmental Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America

Takahashi

2022

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article presents an overview of environmental communication scholarship about and from Latin America. It explores the main trends, developments, and characteristics of this scholarship, and the differences from and connections to scholarship developed in the Global North. Latin American researchers have developed robust and unique contributions to the understanding of communication processes about the environment, some of which can expand epistemic considerations that Global North researchers should consider. The article also reviews theoretical and methodological shortcomings that need to be recognized, some of which are tied to historic and political processes in the region. The article concludes with recommendations to overcome the challenges that scholars face, and to harness existing strengths that could result in the consolidation of international environmental communication scholarship.

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Section: A Brief Background On Latin American Communication Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mediating Environmental Problemsmentioning

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Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America

Takahashi

2022

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…The Samarco disaster received wide local and national news coverage (Prado and Pinto, 2020;Mourão and Sturm, 2018). Perusing Factiva data in the English-language media from the date of the disaster (05/11/2015) to the date of the signing of the agreement (02/03/2016) demonstrates that BHP Billiton experienced high international media exposure regarding the Samarco case, slightly higher than Vale.…”

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The interplay between home and host logics of accountability in multinational corporations (MNCs): the case of the Fundão dam disaster

Safari

Castro

Steccolini

2020

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PurposeThe major purpose of this paper is to answer the overarching questions of how multinational corporations (MNCs) address the multiple institutional logics of accountability and pressures of the field in which they operate and how the dominant logic changes and shifts in response to such pressures pre- and post-disaster situation.Design/methodology/approachIn-depth interpretive textual analyses of multiple longitudinal data sets are conducted to study the case of the Fundão dam disaster. The data sources include historical documents, academic articles and public institutional press releases from 2000 to 2016, covering the environment leading to the case study incident and its aftermath.FindingsThe findings reveal how MNCs' plurality of and, at times, conflicting institutional logics shape the organizational behaviors, actions and nonactions of actors pre-, peri- and post-disaster. More specifically, the predominance bureaucracy embedded in the state-corporatist logic of the host country before a disaster allows the strategic subunit of an MNC to continue operating while causing various forms of environmental damage until a globally visible disaster triggers a reversal in the dominant logic toward the embrace of wider, global, emergent social and environmental accountability.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to discussions regarding the need to explore in depth of how MNCs respond to multiple institutional pressures in practice. This study extends the literature concerning disaster accountability, state-corporatism and logic-shifting by exploring how MNCs respond to the plurality of institutional logics and pressures over time and showing how, in some cases, logics not only reinforce but also contrast with each other and how a globally exposed disaster may trigger a shift in the dominant logic governing MNCs' responses.

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Brazilian Local and National News Coverage of the Samarco Disaster: A Disaster for the Community, the Corporation or the Environment?

Prado

Pinto

2020

Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities

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Environmental Journalism in Brazil: History, Characteristics, and Framing of Disasters

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America

Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America

The interplay between home and host logics of accountability in multinational corporations (MNCs): the case of the Fundão dam disaster

Brazilian Local and National News Coverage of the Samarco Disaster: A Disaster for the Community, the Corporation or the Environment?

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