Hanna E. Morris, Ph.D.

This full-day event will take place @dublincityuni.bsky.social and is co-organized by @iamcr.org's Environment, Science, and Risk Communication Section and the @cssn.org Working Group on Critical Studies of Climate Media, Discourse, and Power

Join us in Dublin on June 27 to reflect on past, current, and future trajectories of the field of climate change communication. We encourage practice-based abstracts from climate media-makers, activists, & community organizers in addition to traditional scholarly papers. iamcr.org/galway2026/e...

Backlash, Borders, and Bunkers: Critical Approaches for Research on Antidemocratic Politics and Climate Change Communication In this introductory essay, guest editor Hanna E. Morris outlines the theoretical and methodological contributions of the Special Issue (SI) Backlash, Borders, and Bunkers: Antidemocratic Politics ...

Just published!
This Special Issue underscores the importance of scholarship that interrogates the current state of climate politics and opens pathways for more deeply contextualized and democratic responses to climate change. 🌱
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Environmental or Ecological Communication? Lessons (too late) from the Great Barrier Reef Environmental communication has failed the Great Barrier Reef. After fifty years of communicating the need for protection and conservation, the Reef—like coral reefs globally—remains on the brink o...

#OpenAccessArticle Environmental or Ecological Communication? Lessons (too late) from the Great Barrier Reef 🌊

This article emphasizes the complex dynamics of communication in environmental and climate politics.

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Low-emissions, High Tensions: Social Media Groups and the Escalation of Climate Obstruction Backlash against climate policy is rare, but it is growing as policies become more present in everyday life, and resistance is becoming more confrontational. In the UK, this includes property destr...

Low-emissions, High Tensions: Social Media Groups and the Escalation of Climate Obstruction

The article offers novel insights into the strategic use of social media to amplify climate obstruction in the U.K.

Read: spr.ly/63322CfJxq

The Rise of (Affective) Obstruction: Conceptualizing the Evolution of Far-Right Climate Change Communication (1986–2018) Research has illustrated that today’s far right in the Global North takes largely climate obstructionist stances, commonly featuring ageist/misogynistic/racist tropes. However, little is known abou...

Explore the intersections of anti-climate reactionary politics and communication in Germany, Sweden, and Brazil:
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3. Brazil- spr.ly/63324hBTAm

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Open Access for a limited time 👀

This kind of research is needed more than ever. You can read my open access Intro Essay in which I reflect on today's critical juncture (one full year since the start of "Trump 2.0") & detail how the papers in this Special Issue can help navigate this conjuncture: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Special Issue on Backlash, Borders, and Bunkers: Antidemocratic Politics and Climate Change Communication that I edited is now available. A huge thanks to @phaedra.bsky.social for the opportunity to edit this project and to all of the contributing authors! www.tandfonline.com/toc/renc20/2...

I have an open access article out today! In a special issue of Environmental Communication edited by @hannamorris.bsky.social - The Populationist Climate Futures Industry: NGO SF Capital, Eco-emotions and Speculative Ecofascism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If anyone @ccj-ubc.bsky.social wants to collaborate or be in dialogue about these similar projects, I'd love to!

Hanna E. Morris on Apocalyptic Authoritarianism, Climate Journalism, and the Convergence of Centrist and Far-Right Discourses illiberalism.org | Hanna E. Morris discusses Apocalyptic Authoritarianism, and how centrist and far right discourses converge vis-à-vis climate change.

I've been researching what I call "apocalyptic authoritarianism" & @astra.bsky.social & @naomiaklein.bsky.social call "end times fascism" for 15 yrs. My book traces the historical & cultural roots of elite-level apocalyptic fantasies & how to collectively respond www.illiberalism.org/hanna-e-morr...

And if you will be in the Bay Area this January, I will be giving a book talk at Pegasus Books Downtown in Berkeley on Shattuck on January 29 at 6pm! pegasusbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

Hanna E. Morris on Apocalyptic Authoritarianism.

You can listen to a podcast interview about my new book on the @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/1utf...

Excited to read this by two writers I admire @astra.bsky.social & @naomiaklein.bsky.social! If you are interested in a related title already written, check out my new book - although I call this reactionary & necropolitical politics "apocalyptic authoritarianism" global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Book talk event poster

Bay Area friends: I will be in Berkeley giving a book talk at Pegasus Books on Shattuck Ave. on Thursday, January 29 at 6pm -- I hope to see you there! All are welcome so please do bring friends! :) pegasusbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

If you're in Denver for #NCA2025 this weekend, be sure to join the New Books in Environmental Communication session tomorrow (Saturday) at 9:30AM. I'm looking forward to talking about my new book and being in dialogue with the other brilliant authors a part of the panel! @ecdnca.bsky.social

Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?

Mamdani: I've spoken about --

Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.

And be sure to stay tuned for more papers on antidemocratic politics and climate change communication in a forthcoming special issue for Environmental Communication that will be released this January 2026!

Policing the Climate Crisis: Media Fearmongering and State Repression of Climate Protesters in Australia, Canada, and the United States Within the Post-2016 Conjuncture This paper examines the present-day, post-2016 conjuncture of rising authoritarianism and reactionary politics through an analysis of news media and the symbolic criminalization of climate campaign...

I'm excited to share a new open access paper (co-written w/ Matt Tegelberg & Libby Lester) in which we examine the symbolic criminalization of climate campaigners, Indigenous land and water defenders, and climate justice activists in Australia, Canada, and the United States. doi.org/10.1080/1752...

Hanna E. Morris on Apocalyptic Authoritarianism, Climate Journalism, and the Convergence of Centrist and Far-Right Discourses illiberalism.org | Hanna E. Morris discusses Apocalyptic Authoritarianism, and how centrist and far right discourses converge vis-à-vis climate change.

You can read more in a recent interview I did with the Illiberalism Studies Program here: www.illiberalism.org/hanna-e-morr...

And you can get a copy of my book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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In Apocalyptic Authoritarianism, I also show how there is an apocalypse-infused & authoritarian-aligned nostalgia among traditional figures of power who long for a return to an imagined "golden age" of postwar America, understood to be before the Civil Rights & pro-democracy movements of the 1960s

BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website:

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Check out this important new open access book available today! I'm excited to be one of the contributors for Chapter 6 on Steering the Climate Discourse: Legacy News, Social Media, Advertising, and Public Relations led by @aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social

Hanna E. Morris on Apocalyptic Authoritarianism, Climate Journalism, and the Convergence of Centrist and Far-Right Discourses illiberalism.org | Hanna E. Morris discusses Apocalyptic Authoritarianism, and how centrist and far right discourses converge vis-à-vis climate change.

New interview@ Hanna E Morris discusses Apocalyptic Authoritarianism and how centrist and far-right discourses converge vis-à-vis climate change. Check it out!

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poster with event details for book talk at Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia, PA on October 26 at 4:30pm

Philly friends: I'm really excited to be discussing my new book, Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power (Oxford University Press, 2025) at Wooden Shoe Books on October 26 at 4:30pm. All are welcome and I hope to see you there!

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Such an honor to have had the opportunity to present my book today @ipk.bsky.social! Thanks to those who came out to my talk during this very busy #NYClimateWeek. And also thanks so much again to @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social and @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social

For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social.

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I'm really excited to be giving a book talk @ipk.bsky.social during NYC Climate Week next Thursday, September 25th -- if you will be in NY too, please swing by! The talk starts at 5:30pm. More details and registration are below: