Scholars
Claire Marie Konkes
University of Tasmania
Based in
Australia
Australia
Claire Konkes is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Tasmania, Australia and specialises in environmental and climate communication. Her research examines how protest, climate science, and climate litigation are represented in news media, culminating in her recent book Green Lawfare: The Strategic Use of Law in Mediatized Environmental Conflict (2024). She brings extensive experience from environmental advocacy and early climate campaigns of the 1990s, as well as a print journalism career.
Country(ies) of Specialty
AustraliaFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Communications research Climate Justice Social movementsHow to Connect
Publications
Articles
Foxwell-Norton, K., & Konkes, C. (2019). The Great Barrier Reef: News media, policy and the politics of protection. International Communication Gazette, 81(3), 211–234. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048518767800
Foxwell-Norton, K., & Konkes, C. (2021). Is the Great Barrier Reef dead? Satire, death and environmental communication. Media International Australia, 184(1), 106–121. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X211055852
Hawley, E., Clifford, K., & Konkes, C. (2018). The “Rosie Batty Effect” and the Framing of Family Violence in Australian News Media. Journalism Studies, 19(15), 2304–2323. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1343096
Konkes, C. (2018). Green Lawfare: Environmental Public Interest Litigation and Mediatized Environmental Conflict. Environmental Communication, 12(2), 191–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2017.1371054
Konkes, C. (2024). Green lawfare: The Strategic Use of Law in Mediatized Environmental Conflict. Peter Lang.
Konkes, C. (2025). The Anthropocene: Repairing a Broken Problem Frame. Environmental Communication, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2025.2581198
Konkes, C., & Foxwell-Norton, K. (2021). Science communication and mediatised environmental conflict: A cautionary tale. Public Understanding of Science, 30(4), 470–483. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520985134
Konkes, C., & Lester, L. (2016). Justice, politics and the social usefulness of news. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 12(1), 17–35. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659015599975
Konkes, C., & Lester, L. (2017). Incomplete Knowledge, Rumour and Truth Seeking: When conspiracy theories become news. Journalism Studies, 18(7), 826–844. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2015.1089182
Konkes, C., Nixon, C., Lester, L., & Williams, K. (2021). Coal versus Coral: Australian Climate Change Politics sees the Great Barrier Reef in Court. Queensland Review, 28(2), 132–146. https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2022.10
Nixon, C., Konkes, C., Lester, L., & Williams, K. (2021). Mediated Visibility and Public Environmental Litigation: The Interplay between Inside and Outside Court during Environmental Conflict in Australia. Laws, 10(2), 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws10020035
Ross, A., Lester, L., & Konkes, C. (2021). Audience Perspectives on Paying for Local News: A Regional Qualitative Case Study. Journalism Studies, 22(8), 1066–1082. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2021.1916985