Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China

Modernisation becomes a hegemonic ideology in Chinese society, while China faces enormous environmental problems. Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China argues that investigative journalism has constructed a discourse of environmental risk that is in contrast with the discourse of modernisation encouraged by Chinese governments for over half a century. By constructing the discourse of environmental risk, investigative journalism exposes the true nature of modernisation on the one hand, and on the other hand, it reveals the connection between social and environmental injustice and inequality. The bifurcation between the two discourses reflects the rift between environment and modernisation as well as the divergence between people and the state. Investigative journalism demonstrates a counter-hegemonic force against the hegemonic discourse of modernisation to a certain extent. The book starts with an overview of the relationship between the emergence of environmental problems and China's modernisation and focuses on the agendas and practices of environmental investigative journalism, the discourse of environmental risk and the challenges and chances offered by the Internet.

Jingrong Tong is Lecturer at the University of Leicester and author of Investigative Journalism in China: Journalism, Power, and Society.

Introduction
1. Modernisation, Environmental Problems and Chinese Society
2. Twenty-years of Environmental Investigative Reporting: Agendas, Social Interests and Voices
3. The Discourse of Risk: Environmental Problems and Environmentalism in Chinese Press Investigative Reports
4. Environmental Investigative Journalists and their Work
5. Offline Investigative Journalism and Online Environmental Crusades
6. Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Investigative Journalism between Modernisation and Environmental Problems
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