Phaedra C Pezzullo
Biographic Data
| ID | 148501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phaedra C Pezzullo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phaedra C |
| FAMILY NAME | Pezzullo |
| SIGNATURE | PEZZULLO P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5766-7776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Hazards and Incarceration Facilities: Evaluating Facility-Level Exposure to Floods, Wildfires, Extreme Heat, and Landslides in Colorado
Incarcerated people are some of the most vulnerable and at risk in our society. One understudied source of this high risk is the exposure of incarceration facilities to environmental hazards. This study addresses this gap by developing and applying spatial analyses to evaluate the exposure of incarceration infrastructure to wildfire, flood, extreme heat, and landslide hazards. First, we classified the exposure to these four hazards for all known …
On Environmental Communication as a Care Discipline
This is a Special Issue opening essay. The theme of the Special Issue is Care, edited by the author in the inaugural issue of her three-year editorship of the journal. The author furthers her argument for redefining the field of environmental communication as not just a crisis discipline, but also a care discipline. She addresses limitations and possibilities of care as an ethic and discourse today. In conclusion, she turns attention to the aspir…
Articulating a Loss and Damage Fund: How the Global South is Rethinking Agency and Justice in an Age of Climate Disasters
The Global South (or Low-Income Countries, LICs) long has been advocating for the establishment of a Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund to address vulnerability and limited adaptation capacity in response to disasters exacerbated by climate injustices, which finally gained international recognition of late. This essay focuses on two key moments that led to this landmark agreement: at COP19, when Philippines climate delegate Naderev “Yeb” Saño advocated f…
Because we're dying in here: A study of environmental vulnerability and climate risks in incarceration infrastructure
This article draws on the stories of formerly incarcerated people to examine the ways in which the physical and social infrastructures of carceral facilities increase incarcerated people's vulnerability to environmental hazards exacerbated by climate change. We present qualitative data from interviews and focus groups with people who have been incarcerated in prisons and/or jails in Colorado regarding their experiences with incarceration infrastr…
Amplifying Desire-Centered Research Beyond Deficits and Fatigue: A Case Study of Environmental Justice ArcGIS StoryMaps in Colorado
Environmental justice (EJ) mapping tools are an increasingly popular way for governments to use data to measure, prioritize, and hold accountable patterns of environmental injustice. In 2022, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) launched Colorado EnviroScreen, including a collaboration between the CDPHE and members of a university class on the Foundations of Environmental Justice. This partnership, named the Colorado E…
The Rhetoric of Official Apologies: Critical Essays
We are haunted—politically, professionally, and personally—by the rhetorical constraints of contrition and forgiveness. The Rhetoric of Official Apologies, a coedited book by internationally prominent rhetorical scholars Lisa S. Villadsen and Jason A. Edwards, offers a timely intervention. The volume focuses on an “official apology” as a globally-recognized and prevalent rhetorical genre, which they define narrowly as “a statement of regret prese…
Disaster resilience and sustainability of incarceration infrastructures: A review of the literature
Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres
Environmental justice and climate justice
The environmental justice movement was born when a new vocabulary emerged. It created not only a new discourse for amplifying grassroots voices but also a compelling critique of how the “environment” was misunderstood without a robust notion of justice. Twenty years later, climate justice was articulated by transnational grassroots advocates. This chapter revisits the story of origin for the environmental justice movement when key issues of “envi…
Agribusiness futurism and food atmospheres: Reimagining corn, pigs, and transnational negotiations on Khrushchev’s 1959 U.S. tour
Food and power are inseparable. This essay analyzes a significant moment in transnational food history. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s Cold War era 1959 visit to the United States has been recognized as pivotal in Soviet-American public affairs, as well as for Russian-Chinese relations. Yet, too often ignored is that destinations included a seed-corn farm operation and the Iowa State University Swine Research Center; Khrushchev’s tour of thes…
Between crisis and care: Projection mapping as creative climate advocacy
At this critical crossroad of climate crisis, environmental advocates have turned to projection mapping (also known as ‘guerrilla projections’, ‘digital graffiti’, etc.) to foster an ethic of care. This article focuses on two 2015 projection mapping events: one in Vatican City and the other in Paris. Although imperfect, projection mapping may orient attention, transform locations into public spaces for political engagement and cultivate collectiv…
The ethics of embodied engagement
Ethnographic studies may be conducted by members of an environmental community or movement, as well as by those who identify as somehow "outside". They may be single-or multi-sited and last for various durations of time, ranging from a few hours to several years. They may involve a range of embodied participation practices, from interviewing to volunteering to working for an organization. This chapter summarizes ethical motivations and choices re…
Rethinking rhetorical field methods on a precarious planet
This essay offers a narrative of rhetorical field methods and intertwined climate justice exigencies. We argue the emergence of and resistance toward rhetorical field methods responds to a growing ecological consciousness, reflecting a changing understanding of the relationship between human agency and the planet. Drawing upon fieldwork from our own research and other scholars in the field, we organize our argument in three related themes: cultur…
Hello from the other side: Popular culture, crisis, and climate activism
Popular culture is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is also the stake to be won or lost in that struggle. It is the arena of consent and
There Is No Planet B”: Questions During a Power Shift
Communication and cultural studies are implicated in environmental matters. Unsustainable practices are relevant, contingent, contextual, articulated, public, banal, extraordinary, embodied, affective, global/local, material technocultural relations that hold life itself at stake. Given residual and dominant ecological crises and environmental injustices, palpable pressure to intervene in the contemporary power shift exists. While we remain inves…
Deterritorializing
Contextualizing Boycotts and Buycotts: The Impure Politics of Consumer-Based Advocacy in an Age of Global Ecological Crises
Despite their popularity and significance, there is a paucity of communication scholarship on boycotts and buycotts. This absence may be due to an erroneous assumption that such tactics are merely economic, as well as to a hesitancy to critique consumption. This essay focuses on three contemporary US-based exemplars that address global ecological crises: the Rainforest Action Network boycott of Mitsubishi; the Farm Labor Organizing Committee boyc…
Tripping over Boundary-Stones: Reflections on Engaged Scholarship
Communication Activism, Volume One: Communication for Social Change and Communication Activism, Volume Two: Media and Performance Activism - Edited by Lawrence R. Frey & Kevin M. Carragee
Anzaldúa was a poet. Foucault was a gay activist. De Certeau was funded by grant money from the French government. Gramsci was a prisoner. Fanon was a psychotherapist. Mao was a revolutionary leader of a nation. Aristotle was a tutor and an advisor to a King. The list could go on and each of these figures obviously performed much more than any one of these roles, but the point is that theory and practice have a long and intertwined history. Despi…
This is the only tour that sells”: Tourism, disaster, and national identity in New Orleans
For many, New Orleans, LA, USA, was an ideal vacation destination, with the commercial tourist industry providing one-third of the municipal budget. This changed on 29 August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall and, due to a series of events, the majority of the city was submerged underwater. In December 2005, the multinational tour operator, Gray Line, announced that its business in New Orleans would re-launch featuring “Katrina tours.” C…
Tourists and/as disasters: Rebuilding, remembering, and responsibility in New Orleans
Although some have begun to study the relationships between national disasters and commercial tourism, practices of touring in the aftermath of disasters warrant closer examination. Marita Sturken argues tourists of disaster provide a metaphor for US contemporary culture, epitomizing an attitude that is superficial, distanced, and uncritical. To identify the hopeful possibilities that we can recuperate from literal practices of touring disaster, …
What’s so ‘Dark’ about ‘Dark Tourism’: Death, Tours, and Performance
Tourist studies scholars have sought to differentiate tours of the picturesque, the romantic, and the sublime from those of the disgusting, the abject, and the macabre. The assumption is that tourist destinations for relaxation and play involve a notably different clientele, tour operator, and set of ethical questions than those destinations where death and tragedy once occurred. An increasingly popular framework to approach this research is ‘dar…
Overture: The Most Complicated Word
Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement
Analysis and case studies from interdisciplinary perspectives explore the possibility and desirability of collaboration between the grassroots-oriented environmental justice movement and mainstream environmental organizations. Although the environmental movement and the environmental justice movement would seem to be natural allies, their relationship over the years has often been characterized by conflict and division. The environmental justice …
Touring “Cancer Alley,” Louisiana: Performances of Community and Memory for Environmental Justice
The region between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, is known to some as "Cancer Alley." Environmental justice activists provide "toxic tours" through this area to address how racism and classism have created an environmentally unjust climate. Drawing on participant-observation to critically represent one such tour, the author illustrates how toxic tours may function rhetorically as cultural performances to help build communities of resista…
What’s so ‘Dark’ about ‘Dark Tourism’: Death, Tours, and Performance
Tourist studies scholars have sought to differentiate tours of the picturesque, the romantic, and the sublime from those of the disgusting, the abject, and the macabre. The assumption is that tourist destinations for relaxation and play involve a notably different clientele, tour operator, and set of ethical questions than those destinations where death and tragedy once occurred. An increasingly popular framework to approach this research is ‘dar…
"Resisting "national breast cancer awareness month: The Rhetoric of Counterpublics and Their Cultural Performances
Since 1984, October has been recognized in the U.S. as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In 1997, the Toxic Links Coalition of the Bay Area, California, began organizing annual "Stop Cancer Where It Starts" tours to counter attempts to obscure the environmentally-linked causes of cancer. By drawing on research including participant observation, this essay analyzes the politics of these two publics in an attempt to illustrate the limits of a…
Touring “Cancer Alley,” Louisiana: Performances of Community and Memory for Environmental Justice
The region between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, is known to some as "Cancer Alley." Environmental justice activists provide "toxic tours" through this area to address how racism and classism have created an environmentally unjust climate. Drawing on participant-observation to critically represent one such tour, the author illustrates how toxic tours may function rhetorically as cultural performances to help build communities of resista…
Tourists and/as disasters: Rebuilding, remembering, and responsibility in New Orleans
Although some have begun to study the relationships between national disasters and commercial tourism, practices of touring in the aftermath of disasters warrant closer examination. Marita Sturken argues tourists of disaster provide a metaphor for US contemporary culture, epitomizing an attitude that is superficial, distanced, and uncritical. To identify the hopeful possibilities that we can recuperate from literal practices of touring disaster, …
Contextualizing Boycotts and Buycotts: The Impure Politics of Consumer-Based Advocacy in an Age of Global Ecological Crises
Despite their popularity and significance, there is a paucity of communication scholarship on boycotts and buycotts. This absence may be due to an erroneous assumption that such tactics are merely economic, as well as to a hesitancy to critique consumption. This essay focuses on three contemporary US-based exemplars that address global ecological crises: the Rainforest Action Network boycott of Mitsubishi; the Farm Labor Organizing Committee boyc…
This is the only tour that sells”: Tourism, disaster, and national identity in New Orleans
For many, New Orleans, LA, USA, was an ideal vacation destination, with the commercial tourist industry providing one-third of the municipal budget. This changed on 29 August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall and, due to a series of events, the majority of the city was submerged underwater. In December 2005, the multinational tour operator, Gray Line, announced that its business in New Orleans would re-launch featuring “Katrina tours.” C…
Rethinking rhetorical field methods on a precarious planet
This essay offers a narrative of rhetorical field methods and intertwined climate justice exigencies. We argue the emergence of and resistance toward rhetorical field methods responds to a growing ecological consciousness, reflecting a changing understanding of the relationship between human agency and the planet. Drawing upon fieldwork from our own research and other scholars in the field, we organize our argument in three related themes: cultur…
Deterritorializing
Between crisis and care: Projection mapping as creative climate advocacy
At this critical crossroad of climate crisis, environmental advocates have turned to projection mapping (also known as ‘guerrilla projections’, ‘digital graffiti’, etc.) to foster an ethic of care. This article focuses on two 2015 projection mapping events: one in Vatican City and the other in Paris. Although imperfect, projection mapping may orient attention, transform locations into public spaces for political engagement and cultivate collectiv…
Overture: The Most Complicated Word
There Is No Planet B”: Questions During a Power Shift
Communication and cultural studies are implicated in environmental matters. Unsustainable practices are relevant, contingent, contextual, articulated, public, banal, extraordinary, embodied, affective, global/local, material technocultural relations that hold life itself at stake. Given residual and dominant ecological crises and environmental injustices, palpable pressure to intervene in the contemporary power shift exists. While we remain inves…
Touring “Cancer Alley,” Louisiana: Performances of Community and Memory for Environmental Justice
The region between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, is known to some as "Cancer Alley." Environmental justice activists provide "toxic tours" through this area to address how racism and classism have created an environmentally unjust climate. Drawing on participant-observation to critically represent one such tour, the author illustrates how toxic tours may function rhetorically as cultural performances to help build communities of resista…
"Resisting "national breast cancer awareness month: The Rhetoric of Counterpublics and Their Cultural Performances
Since 1984, October has been recognized in the U.S. as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In 1997, the Toxic Links Coalition of the Bay Area, California, began organizing annual "Stop Cancer Where It Starts" tours to counter attempts to obscure the environmentally-linked causes of cancer. By drawing on research including participant observation, this essay analyzes the politics of these two publics in an attempt to illustrate the limits of a…
Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement
Analysis and case studies from interdisciplinary perspectives explore the possibility and desirability of collaboration between the grassroots-oriented environmental justice movement and mainstream environmental organizations. Although the environmental movement and the environmental justice movement would seem to be natural allies, their relationship over the years has often been characterized by conflict and division. The environmental justice …
Overture: The Most Complicated Word
Communication Activism, Volume One: Communication for Social Change and Communication Activism, Volume Two: Media and Performance Activism - Edited by Lawrence R. Frey & Kevin M. Carragee
Anzaldúa was a poet. Foucault was a gay activist. De Certeau was funded by grant money from the French government. Gramsci was a prisoner. Fanon was a psychotherapist. Mao was a revolutionary leader of a nation. Aristotle was a tutor and an advisor to a King. The list could go on and each of these figures obviously performed much more than any one of these roles, but the point is that theory and practice have a long and intertwined history. Despi…
This is the only tour that sells”: Tourism, disaster, and national identity in New Orleans
For many, New Orleans, LA, USA, was an ideal vacation destination, with the commercial tourist industry providing one-third of the municipal budget. This changed on 29 August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall and, due to a series of events, the majority of the city was submerged underwater. In December 2005, the multinational tour operator, Gray Line, announced that its business in New Orleans would re-launch featuring “Katrina tours.” C…
Tourists and/as disasters: Rebuilding, remembering, and responsibility in New Orleans
Although some have begun to study the relationships between national disasters and commercial tourism, practices of touring in the aftermath of disasters warrant closer examination. Marita Sturken argues tourists of disaster provide a metaphor for US contemporary culture, epitomizing an attitude that is superficial, distanced, and uncritical. To identify the hopeful possibilities that we can recuperate from literal practices of touring disaster, …
What’s so ‘Dark’ about ‘Dark Tourism’: Death, Tours, and Performance
Tourist studies scholars have sought to differentiate tours of the picturesque, the romantic, and the sublime from those of the disgusting, the abject, and the macabre. The assumption is that tourist destinations for relaxation and play involve a notably different clientele, tour operator, and set of ethical questions than those destinations where death and tragedy once occurred. An increasingly popular framework to approach this research is ‘dar…
Tripping over Boundary-Stones: Reflections on Engaged Scholarship
Contextualizing Boycotts and Buycotts: The Impure Politics of Consumer-Based Advocacy in an Age of Global Ecological Crises
Despite their popularity and significance, there is a paucity of communication scholarship on boycotts and buycotts. This absence may be due to an erroneous assumption that such tactics are merely economic, as well as to a hesitancy to critique consumption. This essay focuses on three contemporary US-based exemplars that address global ecological crises: the Rainforest Action Network boycott of Mitsubishi; the Farm Labor Organizing Committee boyc…
There Is No Planet B”: Questions During a Power Shift
Communication and cultural studies are implicated in environmental matters. Unsustainable practices are relevant, contingent, contextual, articulated, public, banal, extraordinary, embodied, affective, global/local, material technocultural relations that hold life itself at stake. Given residual and dominant ecological crises and environmental injustices, palpable pressure to intervene in the contemporary power shift exists. While we remain inves…
Deterritorializing
Hello from the other side: Popular culture, crisis, and climate activism
Popular culture is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is also the stake to be won or lost in that struggle. It is the arena of consent and
The ethics of embodied engagement
Ethnographic studies may be conducted by members of an environmental community or movement, as well as by those who identify as somehow "outside". They may be single-or multi-sited and last for various durations of time, ranging from a few hours to several years. They may involve a range of embodied participation practices, from interviewing to volunteering to working for an organization. This chapter summarizes ethical motivations and choices re…
Rethinking rhetorical field methods on a precarious planet
This essay offers a narrative of rhetorical field methods and intertwined climate justice exigencies. We argue the emergence of and resistance toward rhetorical field methods responds to a growing ecological consciousness, reflecting a changing understanding of the relationship between human agency and the planet. Drawing upon fieldwork from our own research and other scholars in the field, we organize our argument in three related themes: cultur…
Between crisis and care: Projection mapping as creative climate advocacy
At this critical crossroad of climate crisis, environmental advocates have turned to projection mapping (also known as ‘guerrilla projections’, ‘digital graffiti’, etc.) to foster an ethic of care. This article focuses on two 2015 projection mapping events: one in Vatican City and the other in Paris. Although imperfect, projection mapping may orient attention, transform locations into public spaces for political engagement and cultivate collectiv…
Agribusiness futurism and food atmospheres: Reimagining corn, pigs, and transnational negotiations on Khrushchev’s 1959 U.S. tour
Food and power are inseparable. This essay analyzes a significant moment in transnational food history. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s Cold War era 1959 visit to the United States has been recognized as pivotal in Soviet-American public affairs, as well as for Russian-Chinese relations. Yet, too often ignored is that destinations included a seed-corn farm operation and the Iowa State University Swine Research Center; Khrushchev’s tour of thes…
Environmental justice and climate justice
The environmental justice movement was born when a new vocabulary emerged. It created not only a new discourse for amplifying grassroots voices but also a compelling critique of how the “environment” was misunderstood without a robust notion of justice. Twenty years later, climate justice was articulated by transnational grassroots advocates. This chapter revisits the story of origin for the environmental justice movement when key issues of “envi…
Disaster resilience and sustainability of incarceration infrastructures: A review of the literature
Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres
Amplifying Desire-Centered Research Beyond Deficits and Fatigue: A Case Study of Environmental Justice ArcGIS StoryMaps in Colorado
Environmental justice (EJ) mapping tools are an increasingly popular way for governments to use data to measure, prioritize, and hold accountable patterns of environmental injustice. In 2022, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) launched Colorado EnviroScreen, including a collaboration between the CDPHE and members of a university class on the Foundations of Environmental Justice. This partnership, named the Colorado E…
The Rhetoric of Official Apologies: Critical Essays
We are haunted—politically, professionally, and personally—by the rhetorical constraints of contrition and forgiveness. The Rhetoric of Official Apologies, a coedited book by internationally prominent rhetorical scholars Lisa S. Villadsen and Jason A. Edwards, offers a timely intervention. The volume focuses on an “official apology” as a globally-recognized and prevalent rhetorical genre, which they define narrowly as “a statement of regret prese…
Hazards and Incarceration Facilities: Evaluating Facility-Level Exposure to Floods, Wildfires, Extreme Heat, and Landslides in Colorado
Incarcerated people are some of the most vulnerable and at risk in our society. One understudied source of this high risk is the exposure of incarceration facilities to environmental hazards. This study addresses this gap by developing and applying spatial analyses to evaluate the exposure of incarceration infrastructure to wildfire, flood, extreme heat, and landslide hazards. First, we classified the exposure to these four hazards for all known …
On Environmental Communication as a Care Discipline
This is a Special Issue opening essay. The theme of the Special Issue is Care, edited by the author in the inaugural issue of her three-year editorship of the journal. The author furthers her argument for redefining the field of environmental communication as not just a crisis discipline, but also a care discipline. She addresses limitations and possibilities of care as an ethic and discourse today. In conclusion, she turns attention to the aspir…
Articulating a Loss and Damage Fund: How the Global South is Rethinking Agency and Justice in an Age of Climate Disasters
The Global South (or Low-Income Countries, LICs) long has been advocating for the establishment of a Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund to address vulnerability and limited adaptation capacity in response to disasters exacerbated by climate injustices, which finally gained international recognition of late. This essay focuses on two key moments that led to this landmark agreement: at COP19, when Philippines climate delegate Naderev “Yeb” Saño advocated f…
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