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Episode 27 – Toby Miller: Sport, the Environment and Greenwashing

Episode 27 – Toby Miller: Sport, the Environment and Greenwashing

Update: 2017-10-06
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Episode 27 of the Media Sport Podcast Series sees leading media and cultural studies scholar, Toby Miller, discuss his latest book, Greenwashing Sport. In explaining the relationship between sport and the environment, he highlights the ways in which professional sports are complicit in global environmental crises and climate change. Particular attention is paid to the examples of motor-racing, football and the Olympics, as well as environmental activism, the notion of a social licence to operate, and the catch-cry of sustainability.

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Episode 27 – Toby Miller: Sport, the Environment and Greenwashing

Episode 27 – Toby Miller: Sport, the Environment and Greenwashing

Brett Hutchins, School of Media, Film & Journalism, Monash University