146 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

146 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

146 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Greenwashing Culture examines the complicity of culture with our environmental crisis. Through its own carbon footprint, the promotion of image-friendly environmental credentials for celebrities, and the mutually beneficial engagement with big industry polluters, Toby Miller argues that culture has become an enabler of environmental criminals to win over local, national, and... Read more

List of figures, Acknowledgments, 1. Introducing greenwashing, 2. Introducing culture with Richard Maxwell, 3. Museums, 4. Citizenship, regulation, and resistance, 5. Conclusion, Bibliography

 

Biography

 

Toby Miller is Research Professor, University of California, Riverside; Sir Walter Murdoch Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, Murdoch University; Profesor Invitado, Escuela de Comunicación Social, Universidad del Norte; Professor of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University/Prifysgol Caerdydd; and Director of the Institute for Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University London.

‘Arts and cultural institutions are often presented as the good guys in the climate change debate - the alternative to all those nasty oil companies and airlines. The reality, as Toby Miller makes clear with characteristic wit and erudition, is rather more complex. Read it and prepare to be enlightened.’

Kate Oakley, Professor of Cultural Policy, University of Leeds, UK

 

‘Miller takes no prisoners in this wide-ranging and persuasive indictment of eco-hoodwinkery. Laying bare the high environmental costs of cultural production, he also weighs its institutional complicity with the black art of greenwashing. Required reading for anyone following the material turn in Cultural Studies.’

Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, USA