Green Lifestyle Journalism
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Craig, Geoff
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Routledge
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This chapter outlines the scope and meanings of green lifestyle journalism where environmentalism, sustainability, and individual everyday life practices are explored. The chapter discusses the genre of green lifestyle journalism where public and global issues of climate change and environmental politics are considered in a form of journalism where individual consumption and social status are often privileged. The chapter locates green lifestyle journalism within academic debates on issues such as the value and efficacy of ethical consumption. It also considers the terrain of green lifestyle journalism, noting it can span news stories that explore individual lifestyle practices as manifestations of environmental public policy, advice columns on sustainable living, and television documentary-style programmes. This chapter provides an overview of research on green lifestyle journalism, noting it is a field that requires more extensive exploration. This chapter is based upon an understanding of lifestyles as individual embodied responses to broader social contexts and, as such, sustainable lifestyles can be viewed as necessary and important responses to the climate emergency. It is argued in conclusion that green lifestyle journalism needs to have a more prominent and comprehensive presence in the schedules and output of contemporary news and media services.Description
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4701 Communication and Media Studies, 4702 Cultural Studies, 36 Creative Arts and Writing, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 3605 Screen and Digital Media, 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
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In: Routledge Handbook of Lifestyle Journalism, Edited By Folker Hanusch. 1st Edition, 2025. Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003396727. eBook ISBN 9781003396727
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This is the Author's Accepted Manuscript of a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Lifestyle Journalism © 2025 Informa UK Limited. The publisher's version is available at doi: 10.4324/9781003396727-24