37.442, Books: Analysing Environmental Discourse: Burnett (2026)

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Date: 29-Jan-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Analysing Environmental Discourse: Burnett (2026)


Title: Analysing Environmental Discourse
Subtitle: A Critical Approach
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/analysing-environmental-discourse-9781350360297/

Author(s): Scott Burnett

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350360297, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

The sheer scale of global ecosystem devastation and the crescendo of
the climate crisis may serve as good reasons for scholars and
commentators to welcome any social mobilization that tries to save the
earth. And yet not all environmentalisms are good environmentalisms.
>From eco-fascism to greenwashing and neoliberal conservation, not all
'green' action has a positive value. Offering a critical framework for
discourse analysts to get to the heart of this specific complexity,
this book is a study of the key discursive moves in environmentalist
discourses that perpetuate social inequality, putting forward an
alternate socioecological approach to avoiding these pitfalls.
While debates over the social visions and implications of
environmentalist discourse have been raging for decades, they have yet
to receive focused attention within critical discourse studies. This
book addresses this gap, building on critiques from feminist, queer,
anti-racist, Indigenous, and decolonial scholars across fields such as
political ecology, environmental sociology, indigenous studies, human
geography, literary theory, environmental communication, and others,
in which the tropes, strategies, and structures perpetuated within
strands of environmentalism are identified. In doing so, it brings
forward new case studies, focused discourse analysis, and a
socioecological normative framework to map out discursive formations.
Special attention is paid to the whiteness and/or coloniality of
ecological futures articulated as utopian social visions, and it is
argued that only when combined with a radical vision for social
justice are these environmental utopias desirable, attainable, or
workable.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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