The story follows Rod and his friend Mukwe in a rural African town, where their peaceful childhood is shattered when Rod is wrongfully accused of assaulting a policeman. After being jailed for protecting his dog, Monty, Rod escapes with the help of Mukwe and Monty, leading to an adventurous canoe journey down the Zambezi River. This tale explores themes of friendship, loyalty, and the fight against injustice in a vibrant setting.
"Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Strawmen moves beyond "hot take" or strawman fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change. Inspired by on- and offline organizing, Pezzullo engages public controversies, policies, and headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the US, and Vietnam through hashtag activism, campaign materials, and her podcast, Communicating Care. She argues that plastics have become an entry point into contested environmental politics, including carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, pollution colonialism, and waste imperialism. Attuned to plastic attachments, Beyond Strawmen shares how unsustainable patterns of the plastics-industrial complex are resisted through imperfect but impactful networked cultures of care"--