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Shane Gunster
Professor
E: sgunster@sfu.ca
Room: K9670
Education
Currently Teaching
Courses
Future courses may be subject to change.
publications
Books
- William Carroll, Shannon Daub and Shane Gunster, Regime of Obstruction: Fossil capitalism and the many facets of climate denial in Canada, Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism, Eds. Mark Stoddart, Riley Dunlap and David Tindall. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming, 2021.
- . University of Toronto Press, 2004, 338p.
- Robert Hackett, Susan Forde, Shane Gunster and Kerrie Foxwell-Norton. . Routledge, 2017, 197p.
Special Issues
- Robert Neubauer and Shane Gunster, Enemies at the Gateway: Regional Populist Discourse and the Fight Against Oil Pipelines on Canadas West Coast, Frontiers in Communication, special issue: Critical Approaches to Climate Change and Civic Action 4.61 (2019): 1-14.
- Shane Gunster, Imre Szeman, Matthew Greaves and Robert Neubauer. . Canadian Journal of Communication 43.1 (Winter 2018).
Journal Articles (selected)
- Shane Gunster, Darren Fleet and Robert Neubauer, Journal of Canadian Studies 55.1 (Winter 2021): 57-87.
- Shane Gunster, Darren Fleet, Matthew Paterson and Paul Saurette, "'," Frontiers in Communication 3.49 (2018): 1-14.
- Sibo Chen and Shane Gunster, "China as Janus: The Framing of China by British Columbia's Alternative Public Sphere," Chinese Journal of Communication, in press.
- Shane Gunster and Robert Neubauer, "," Environmental Politics 6.6 (2018): 1-20.
- Shane Gunster, Darren Fleet, Matthew Paterson and Paul Saurette, "," Environmental Communication 12.6 (2018): 773-793.
- Shane Gunster, Imre Szeman, Matthew Greaves and Robert Neubauer, "," Canadian Journal of Communication 43.1 (2018): 3-10.
- Shane Gunster and Robert Neubauer, "," Canadian Journal of Communication 43.1 (2018): 11-32.
- Sibo Chen and Shane Gunster, "," Environmental Communication 10.3 (2016): 305-321.
- Shane Gunster and Paul Saurette, "," Canadian Journal of Communication 39.3 (December 2014): 333-359.
- ,&紳莉莽梯;Canadian Journal of Communication 36.3 (Fall 2011): 477-502.
- Paul Saurette and Shane Gunster, ,&紳莉莽梯;Canadian Journal of Political Science 44.1 (March 2011): 195-218. (Short-listed for the John McMenemy Prize awarded annually to the authors of the best article in CJPS.)
- ,&紳莉莽梯;Canadian Journal of Communication 33.4 (Dec 2008): 661-683.
- ,&紳莉莽梯;Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 29.2/3 (April 2007).: 211-238.
- ,&紳莉莽梯;Fast Capitalism 2.1 (Fall 2006)
- ,&紳莉莽梯;Television and New Media 6.2 (May 2005): 200-23.
- ,&紳莉莽梯;Ethics and the Environment 9.2 (Fall/Winter 2004): 4-32.
- ,&紳莉莽梯;Cultural Critique 45 (Spring 2000): 40-71.
Book Chapters (selected)
- Shane Gunster, Robert Neubauer, John Bermingham and Alicia Massie, Ed. William Carroll, Athabasca University Press, 2021.
- Darren Fleet, Shane Gunster and Matthew Paterson, Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume 1: Challenges and Development, Eds. Ranjula Bali Swain and Susanne Sweet. Palgrave MacMillan, 2021, pp. 413-431.
- Robert Hackett and Shane Gunster, "Journalism, Climate Communication and Media Alternatives" in , Eds. Benedetta Brevini and Graham Murdock, Palgrave MacMillan, 2017, pp. 173-186.
- Paul Saurette and Shane Gunster, Brewing Canadas Cappuccino Conservatism in , Ed. Alex Himmelfarb. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013, pp. 227-266.
- Radical Optimism: Expanding Visions of Climate Politics in Alternative Media in , Eds. Anabela Carvalho and Tarla Rai Peterson, Cambria Press, 2012, pp. 247-277.
- Frankfurt School and Critical Theory in , Ed. Marcel Danesi. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, pp. 289-297.
- Fear and the Unknown: Nature, Culture and the Limits of Reason in , Ed. Andrew Biro. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, pp. 206-228.
- Sacrifice, Choice and Climate Change: (Re)framing the B.C. Carbon Tax in , Eds. Michael Maniates and John Meyer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010, pp. 187-215.
- A World of Difference: Adorno and Cultural Studies in , Eds. Donald Burke, Colin Campbell, Kathy Kiloh, Michael Palmarek and Jonathan Short. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, pp. 296-315.
research
- Media coverage of environmental and energy issues (esp. climate change)
- Environmental communication, including activist and advocacy communication
- Political communication (esp. neo-conservative political discourse)
- Critical approaches to advertising and consumer culture
- Critical theories of culture (esp. Frankfurt School)