Environmental communication and the politics of disagreement, 5 ECTS
This course runs in the form of a summer school that explores environmental communication from three key social science perspectives, focusing on social, symbolic interaction, discourses and information infrastructures.
Start date: 1 June 2026
End date: 18 September 2026
Organiser: Research School: People, Society and Sustainability (PSS)
Co-organiser: Mistra Environmental Communication
Location: Online, Uppsala
Registration to: anke.fischer@slu.se
Communication is here understood as the joint construction of meaning, and the course will engage with such meaning-making where it concerns environmental, agricultural, forestry and wider sustainability issues, with special emphasis on conflict and political struggles.
Upon completion of the course, the PhD students should be able to:
- Situate their research in relation to the perspectives and debates on environmental communication covered in the course;
- Apply the concepts, theoretical standpoints and considerations covered in the course to their own and other scholars’ research;
- Critically reflect on the contribution of their work to current academic debates in environmental communication and related research.
Location: Online, and in Uppsala 17-21 August 2026
Find more information on the course website and in the course syllabus.