Book Talk | Hanna Morris | Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Thursday, September 25th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Hanna Morris. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with Melissa Aronczyk and Colin Jerolmack.

Hanna E. Morris is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto and co-chair of the Critical Studies of Climate Media, Discourse, and Power Working Group a part of Brown University’s Climate Social Science Network. Her research concentrates on the climate-media-democracy nexus and explores critical questions of power and meaning-making around climate change. Her newest book is titled Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power (Oxford University Press, 2025). She also co-edited the book titled Climate Change and Journalism: Negotiating Rifts of Time (Routledge, 2021) and has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals including Climatic Change, Environmental Communication, Journal of Language and Politics, WIREs Climate Change, Journal of Environmental Media, Media Theory, and Politique Américaine.

Melissa Aronczyk is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University. She is the co-author, with Maria Espinoza, of A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of Environmentalism (Oxford University Press), winner of the 2023 Roderick P. Hart Outstanding Book Award in Political Communication and the 2022 Outstanding Book Award in Public Relations, Innovation, Development and Educational Achievement (PRIDE), both from the National Communication Association.

Colin Jerolmack is professor of environmental studies and sociology at NYU and author of the new book Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town. From 2017 to 2023, Jerolmack was chair of the Dept. of Environmental Studies.