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Governing media information through a Green New Deal: History, theory, practice
- Source: Journal of Environmental Media, Volume 1, Issue 2, Jul 2020, p. 209 - 224
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- 11 Jan 2019
- 05 Nov 2020
- 01 Jul 2020
Abstract
The Green New Deal (GND) aims to cultivate a ‘just transition’ from an economy based in fossil fuel production to an economy based in sustainable production. Its fate is not just dependent on a material struggle for power, but also what mediates this struggle. In addressing America’s historically ambivalent relationship with governmental media, this article links, historicizes and re-theorizes these mediated relations to cultivate a sustainable media practice for the GND. In doing so, it looks to the memory of the New Deal, critiques mid-century debates over media regulation and offers a path forward underwritten by public entertainment and information media production for a GND imaginary. By bringing these themes into a dialogue with the overlapping political economic and legal traditions of neochartalist (Modern Monetary Theory) and constitutional theories of money, this article roots the modern West’s flawed conception of state ‘intervention narratives’ to ‘states of nature’ conceptualized in classical liberal philosophy.