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Daithí Rooney
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Rhetoric PhD @UTAustin. Race, Environment, Animals.

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My website: daithirooney.github.io
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Officially a doctor ✅🤘
April 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Very happy this piece on the Green New Deal, Necropolitics and hamburgers is out at Environmental Communication!

Very thankful to excellent reviewers and editor who really improved this piece and allowed me put in my silly epigraphs

(Link in next post)
Title page of an article in the journal Environmental Communication RESEARCH ARTICLE "They Want to Kill Our Cows. That Means You're Next:" White Masculine Victimhood and the Green New Deal's War on Hamburgers David Rooney Moody Department of Communication, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, USA ABSTRACT This article examines the conspiratorial and unfounded belief - promoted by right-wing figures, including Donald Trump - that the 2019 Green New Deal resolution sought to criminalize hamburger consumption. While previous environmental communication scholarship has suggested a disconnect between media representations of meat consumption and environmental harm, I argue that this connection has, in fact, persisted through a hamburger-synecdoche where performances of hamburger consumption act as a stand in for white masculine domination over the environment. Incorporating Mbembe's necropolitics alongside Johnson and Kelly's accounts of white masculine victimhood, I show how the hamburger-synecdoche doesn't reject or deny the ecological costs of meat but reframes those critiques as existential threats to white masculinity itself. As a result, even unsound claims to injury like hamburger criminalization are articulated as a coherent response to broader environmental crisis - but one which draws upon a long history of rationalizing dominion over nature through gendered and raced terms. They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved. (Sebastian Gorka) i have eaten up to 97 burger's a month no for me, i will eat what and how much i want. (Randy Lynn, 2021, @RandyLy32921892, in reply to Donald Trump Jr.) At
February 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Very happy that our article won the 2024 #NCA Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication!

If you've seen an uptick in shirtless white guys eating raw meat on social media, check out our article on how deep the rabbit hole goes into white nationalism!
Image of a plaque that reads “Christine L. Oravec Journal article award in environmental communication to S. marek Muller, David Rooney, and Cecilia Cerja for “Long Live the Liver King: Right-wing Carnivorism and the Digital Dissemination of Primal Rhetoric”
November 24, 2024 at 7:54 PM