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Climate change is a divisive issue within the United Kingdom, as policy and popular rhetoric circulating within England and Scotland can be at odds with one another. Whilst climate denial is problematic, it is by no means the first form of denial in the broader British cultural sphere. In order to comprehend climate change denial fully, it is useful to gain an understanding of denialism itself as it operates in the UK more broadly, including other sceptically ideological movements, both recen...

This article examines corporate and institutional visual media surrounding the early years of the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The analysis of a varied corpus of educational television, magazine photography, and a short film made by Exxon shows how an extractive enterprise sought to present its impacts as contained and justified. Images and narratives produced an illusion of geographical and temporal separation between the mine and the lifeworlds it impacted. While the material repeats wel...

This article conducts a collaborative qualitative thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with social media content creators (N = 53) based in and/or originated from the United Kingdom. It aims to better understand how creators within one peripheral region in Northern England express their labor experiences as both practices of domination and e-resistance. The article contributes an original typology of the relationships between practices of creator domination and forms of individual or coll...

This paper presents a framing analysis of 12 editions of The Big Issue published in the last three months of 2023. The study employs framing analysis to investigate the language used by the magazine to report on poverty and homelessness. The paper analyses the 'My Pitch' column which represents the voice of the often-homeless vendors who sell the magazine. Using Entman's (1993) approach to framing we analyse how individuals with lived experience of poverty and homelessness define the causes a...