Performing critical interruptions: Stories, rhetorical invention, and the environmental justice movement

Development and Validation of the Environmental Communication Scale

“…Researchers in environmental communication have attended to broad environmental considerations such as environmental risk (Heath, 1995;Renz, 1992), environmental justice (Pezzulo, 2001), environmental advocacy (Cantrill, 1993), and sustainability (Meister & Japp, 1998). At the same time they have directed attention to specific environmental topics like endangered species (Peterson & Horton, 1995), ecosystem management (Backes, 1995;Cantrill, 1998), environmental groups (Lange, 1990;Short, 1991), and wildfires (Hardy- Short & Short, 1995).…”

“…Through this process they were able to develop an alternative sense of stewardship espoused by ranchers embroiled with environmentalists in a conflict over the habitat of a bird on the endangered species list. Pezzulo (2001) conducted a case study of events surrounding the location of a landfill in Warren County, NC, the location widely recognized as the birthplace of the environmental justice movement. Her work revealed the overarching narratives relevant in the case and the critical interruptions that disrupted these narratives.…”

Connecting Community Voices: Using a Latino/a Critical Race Theory Lens on Environmental Justice Advocacy

“…While environmental communication scholarship has begun to address the role of culture and communication in environmental affairs via critical and critical/cultural approaches (e.g., Cox, 2010;Pezzullo, 2001;Rogers, 1998;Sturgeon, 2009), we argue that the communication discipline would greatly benefit from a specific focus on knowledge production to address the role of race in environmental issues.…”

Internatural Activists and the “Blackfish Effect”: Contemplating Captive Orcas’ Protest Rhetoric through a Coherence Frame

“…To this end, Pezzullo (2001) writes that environmental communication must continue to focus on citizen participation in environmental/political decision-making. While environmental justice cases have historically focused on human-centric issues, our study extends the umbrella of citizen to include more-thanhuman "voices.…”

“…Bullard writes "the goal of an environmental justice framework is to make environmental protection more democratic. More importantly, it brings to the surface the ethical and political questions of 'who gets what, why, and in what amount'" [as cited in Pezzullo (2001)…”