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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please see the attachment for the CFP for a special issue of the
<i>Journal of Environmental Media</i> on the topic "Communicating Climate Change in an Age of Rising Authoritarian Populism." This special issue accepts proposals of insightful essays or case commentaries (1,000–2,000 words), as well as full-length articles
(7,000 words). If you're interested, please feel free to reach out to us and/or send us a commentary pitch or article extended abstract. </font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">More information about the <i style="">Journal of Environmental Media</i> could be found here: <a href="https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-environmental-media">https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-environmental-media</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Special Issue Editors<br>
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<li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dr. Sibo Chen (Toronto Metropolitan University)</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dr. Jill Hopke (DePaul University)</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dr. Antal Wozniak (University of Liverpool)</font></li></ul>
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<li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Extended Abstract Deadline: 31 October 2025</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submission Deadline: 15 March 2026</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Projected Publication Date: Autumn 2026</font></li></ul>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Overview: This Special Issue aims to provide a dedicated forum to analyze how climate change is communicated – or obscured – amid the rise of far-right and authoritarian populism worldwide. We seek concise yet theoretically
informed contributions that illuminate the dynamics of climate politics as a communication phenomenon. We especially welcome contributions that go beyond the Global North, examining cases in the Global South as well as transnational phenomena.</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Contributors may address (but are not limited to) the following topics:<br>
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<li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Authoritarian media, censorship, and climate information;</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Climate populism and culture wars;</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Digital misinformation ecosystems, including generative AI deep fakes and climate change; Eco-fascism and right-wing environmentalism;</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Far-right discourses of climate denial and delay;</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">High-tech capitalism and climate change;</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Climate activism in authoritarian political contexts;</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Challenges for messaging to partisan audiences;</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Media, extreme weather and crisis narratives.</font></li></ul>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Regards</font></div>
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Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect.</font></span><br>
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