Call for Papers Dossiê 48 |Comunicação, emergência climática e Amazônia

2025-04-09

NASA's photograph of planet Earth in the 1960s became a symbol of the emergence of the environmental issue and a key metaphor for sustainability narratives (Hajer, 1995). However, it was only from the 1990s onwards that environmental communication began to gain strength as a field of practice and study (Aguiar & Cerqueira, 2012), assuming an ethical duty in the face of the multiple socio-environmental crises that have been worsening since then (Cox, 2007).

It is important to remember that an intrinsic relationship exists between rising inequalities, deregulation, and climate denial (Latour, 2020). And that confronting this perverse triad takes place in the context of the information society, in which information constitutes strategic raw material and information and communication technologies shape human activities (but do not determine them) (Castells, 2007). Therefore, it is increasingly urgent that we take seriously the warning that we must overcome both the economic conceptions of development and the instrumental view of communication (Brianezi & Gattás, 2022).

Based on the recognition that the environmental issue is central to any debate on contemporary society and inseparable from the media system, this thematic dossier “Communication, climate emergency and the Amazon” by Organicom - Revista Brasileira de Comunicação Organizacional e Relações Públicas will welcome articles, testimonies, reviews, interviews and research from nationally and internationally renowned experts, to democratize scientific production on the following central topics (non-exhaustive):

  • Discourses on the environment and sustainability in the context of the climate emergency in the Amazon;
  • Communication, socio-environmental issues, and intersectionalities in the Amazon;
  • Manifestations of disinformation and climate denial (and strategies to combat them) in organizational communication and public relations;
  • The role of organizational communication and public relations in socio-environmental policies: agenda setting, development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation;
  • Dialogical perspectives for public communication of science and how they deal with the false dichotomy between nature and culture;
  • Communication, environment, and (de)acceleration; 
  • Amazon as laboratories of (r)existence; 
  • Agenda 2030: the Sustainable Development Goals as a stage for alliances and disputes in the Amazon; 
  • Traditional knowledge as a basis for the preservation of the Amazon Rainforest;
  • Social movements and communication for sustainability in the Amazon;
  • Ways of framing and agenda-setting the climate issue as a public problem;
  • Climate activism and its mobilizations in the Amazon;
  • Networks and production of knowledge about the climate issue in the Amazon
  • Public perceptions regarding climate change and the importance of preserving the Amazon Rainforest in this process;
  • The importance of regional cultural expressions in raising awareness about climate;
  • Communication for the sustainability of organizations based in the Amazon.

Regarding territorial extension, the Brazilian Amazon occupies more than 5 million km² (the whole of Brazil has 8.5 million km²), making it more extensive than Western Europe. Although the numbers are not enough to characterize the region's diversity and complexity and are not compatible with grotesque simplifications or opportunistic generalizations that alternate between green hell and paradise (Godim, 2004), they serve the purpose of giving the dimension of its amplitude and importance, which are frequently neglected.

In this struggle for the decolonization of territories and minds, there is much to be learned from the so-called forest peoples, who teach us that existence and resistance are inseparable (Brum, 2021) and how to survive the ends of the worlds or postpone them, telling other and multiple stories (Krenak, 2019), which question the representations, centralities and universes (single history) of the commodity people (Kopeawa & Albert, 2019).

 

Aguiar S & Cerqueira JF. 2012. Comunicação ambiental como campo de práticas e de estudos. Revista Comunicação & Inovação, v. 13, n. 24, 11-20.

Brianezi T & Gattás C. 2022. A educomunicação como comunicação para o desenvolvimento sustentável. Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación, [S. l.], v. 21, n. 41, 2022. pp. 33-43.

Brum E. 2021. Banzeiro Òkòtó: uma viagem à Amazônia centro do mundo. Cia. das Letras.

Castells M. 1999. A Era da Informação: economia, sociedade e cultura. Volume II. O Poder da Identidade. Editora Paz e Terra.

Cox R. 2007. Nature’s ‘Crisis Disciplines’: Does Environmental Communication Have an Ethical Duty? Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 1:1, 5-20.

Godim N. 1994. A Invenção da Amazônia. Marco Zero. 

Hajer M. 1995. The Politics of Environmental Discourse. Ecological modernization and the policy process. Clarendon Press.

Kopenawa D &Albert B. 2010. A queda do céu: palavras de um shaman yanomami. Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras. 

Krenak A. 2019. Ideias para Adiar o Fim do Mundo. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.

Latour B. 2020. Onde aterrar? Como se orientar politicamente no Antropoceno. Bazar do Tempo.

 

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Deadline for submitting articles: 31/05/2025 

The texts must follow the norms of the journal, which are available at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/organicom/about/submissions



GUESTS COORDINATORS OF THE DOSSIER

Thaís Brianezi- University of Sao Paulo - USP - tbrianezi@usp.br 

Aline Ferreira Lira - Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM - aline@ufam.edu.br 

Israel de Jesus Rocha - Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM -   israelrocha@ufam.edu.br