Re-MEDIAting distant impacts - how Western media make sense of deforestation in different Brazilian biomes
Mempel, Finn (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Bidone, Francisco (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Data:	2022
Resum:	Brazil plays a central role in Western depictions of and narratives on tropical deforestation. In this contribution, we gather a large text corpus from Western media outlets with articles on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado biomes. The sources include outlets from Europe, the US, Canada and Australia and span a time period from the late 1980s to 2020. Leveraging several text-mining approaches, such as topic modeling and automated narrative network analysis, we disentangle the way that Western media have tried to make sense of deforestation in the Amazon and the Cerrado biomes. We show that the former has received disproportionately more news coverage, specifically in times of international concern over the Brazilian government's commitment to tackle deforestation. Further, Western media frequently report on the struggles of indigenous populations in the Amazon, often following an essentialist depiction of these communities, while in the case of the Cerrado, traditional populations are hardly mentioned at all. Our findings provide a methodologically innovative and empirically grounded case for the often raised concern over a relative invisibility of the Cerrado biome and its traditional populations, which may help explain observed disparities in governance interventions.
Ajuts:	European Commission 765408
Nota:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
Drets:	Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades.
Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Amazon ; Brazil ; Cerrado ; Deforestation ; Text mining ; Topic model
Publicat a:	Environmental Sociology, Vol 9, Issue 1 (July 2022) pag. 51-66, ISSN 2325-1042

DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2022.2106087

17 p, 2.9 MB

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