Interfaces between colonial debate and environmental journalism studies

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v58i0.75877

Keywords:

journalism, coloniality, environment

Abstract

This essay, result of bibliographic research, aims to tension the assumptions of environmental journalism with the colonial debate, especially from the perspective of the environment. Environmental journalism is understood as an engaged practice that goes beyond a thematic specialization, highlighting environmental issues and questioning consolidated aspects within the journalistic field, arise from a Eurocentric logic. It’s intended to point out the interfaces of journalism with the environmental discussion from the critical approaches to colonialism. Among the considerations, it appears that, even without explicitly mentioning the theoretical currents that discuss the colonial issue, environmental journalism incorporates this criticism from the beginning by understanding nature in its entirety and humanity as part of it.

Author Biographies

Eloisa Beling Loose, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)


      

Ilza Maria Tourinho Girardi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)


    

Published

2021-10-07

How to Cite

Loose, E. B., & Girardi, I. M. T. (2021). Interfaces between colonial debate and environmental journalism studies. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 58. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v58i0.75877