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Beyond Climate Change Information: Communicating the Anthropocene
  • ISSN: 1757-1898
  • E-ISSN: 1757-1901

Abstract

The power gaps nested in the political ecology of socioenvironmental conflicts often impose critical impasses on the attainment of justice. Therefore, negotiation is accepted as an alternate tool for environmental justice, especially to avoid the prolonged sufferings linked to uneven power relations between conflicting parties, unpredictable outcomes, mounting expenses and the time taken to get a decision through formal judicial trials or arbitrations. Against this backdrop, the American movie is selected to highlight the importance of negotiation as a tool to mitigate environmental conflicts. The movie presents how an ordinary woman, who has many blemishes and liabilities, transcends personal limitations to accomplish appreciable socioenvironmental justice through grassroots mobilization and negotiation. Using close study interpretive methods, the movie is analysed as a case study in environmental leadership, distributive negotiation and procedural justice.

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Grassroots leadership and negotiation style: The quest for justice in the movie Erin Brockovich
Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies 15, 197 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00088_1
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Keyword(s): distributive negotiation; environmental conflicts; environmental justice; grassroots leadership; judicial trials; power gaps; procedural justice

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