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Ben Glasson is an interdisciplinary scholar of culture, media, and environmental politics. His research projects critically analyze discursive and cultural obstacles to environmental engagement and action, with a special focus on the significance of nonrational forms of knowing and being. His research has been published in Journal of Political Ideologies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. He is a member of the Climate Social Science Network based at the Institute at Brown for Environment & Society and an affiliate of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute.
RCC Research Project: Greenwash 2.0: The Poetics of Corporate Environmentalism
Selected Publications:
- “Reality Offsets: Climate Meets Capitalism at the Olympic Games.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 28, no. 1 (2025): 137–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494231224398.
- with Brett Hutchins. “‘Carbon Partners’ and Collaborative Greenwashing: The Sustainability Partnership Between Dow Chemical and the Olympic Games.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues 48, no. 5 (2024): 271–89. https://doi.org/10.1177/01937235241269849.
- “Environmental Myth-Work: The Discursive Greening of the Olympic Games.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 19, no. 3 (2022): 217–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2095412.
- “Forward to Nature: Ecological subjectivity After the Discursive Turn.” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 22 (2017): 87–105. https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2016.12.
- “Subversive Rearticulation Between Radicalism and Reform: The Case of Ecologism.” Journal of Political Ideologies 20, no. 2 (2015): 156–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2015.1034463.
- “The Intellectual Outside: Anti-Intellectualism and the Subject of Populist Discourses in Australian Newspapers.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 26, no. 1 (2012): 101–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2012.630147.