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Selected Works

Books
- Capitalizing on Culture: Critical Theory for Cultural Studies. University of Toronto Press, 2004, 338p.
Journal Articles
- “Media, Communication and Environmental Crisis: Constraints, challenges and opportunities,” Global Media Journal9.1 (March 2012): 35-52. Published in Chinese, Translated by Ji Li.
- “Covering Copenhagen: Climate Politics in B.C. Media,” Canadian Journal of Communication 36.3 (Fall 2011): 477-502.
- Paul Saurette and Shane Gunster, “Ears Wide Shut: Epistemological Populism, Argutainment and Canadian Conservative Talk Radio,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 44.1 (March 2011): 195-218. (Short-listed for the John McMenemy Prize awarded annually to the authors of the best article in CJPS.)
- “Environmental journalism viewed from Canada,” Media Development 56.2 (February 2009): 25-28.
- “‘Listening to Labour’: Mainstream Media, Talk Radio and the 2005 B.C. Teacher’s Strike”, Canadian Journal of Communication 33.4 (Dec 2008): 661-683.
- “‘On the Road to Nowhere’: Utopian Themes in Contemporary Auto Advertising,” Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 29.2/3 (April 2007).: 211-238.
- “‘Second Nature’: Advertising, Metaphor and the Production of Space,” Fast Capitalism 2.1 (Fall 2006)
- “‘All About Nothing’: Affect, Difference and Seinfeld,” Television and New Media 6.2 (May 2005): 200-23.
- “You Belong Outside’: Advertising, Nature and the SUV,” Ethics and the Environment 9.2 (Fall/Winter 2004): 4-32.
- “Revisiting the Culture Industry Thesis: Mass Culture and the Commodity Form,” Cultural Critique 45 (Spring 2000): 40-71.
Book Chapters
- Paul Saurette and Shane Gunster, “Brewing Canada’s Cappuccino Conservatism” in Let’s Raise Taxes, Ed. Alex Himmelfarb. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, forthcoming, 2013.
- “Radical Optimism: Expanding Visions of Climate Politics in Alternative Media” in Communication and The Politics of Climate Change, Eds. Anabela Carvalho and Tarla Rai Peterson, Cambria Press, forthcoming, 2012.
- “Frankfurt School and Critical Theory” in The Encyclopedia of Communications, Ed. Marcel Danesi. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2012, pp. 289-297.
- “‘Fear and the Unknown’: Nature, Culture and the Limits of Reason” in Critical Ecologies, Ed. Andrew Biro. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, pp. 206-228.
- “Sacrifice, Choice and Climate Change: (Re)framing the B.C. Carbon Tax” in The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice, Eds. Michael Maniates and John Meyer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010, pp. 187-215.
- Paul Saurette, Shane Gunster and Kathryn Trevenen, “Un conservatism renouvelé? L’étude des idéologies au Canada” in Les politiques publiques au Canada. Pouvoir, conflits et idéologies, Eds. Dimitrious Karmis and Linda Cardinal. Sainte Foy: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2009, pp. 11-35.
- “‘A World of Difference’: Adorno and Cultural Studies” in Adorno and the Need in Thinking: New Critical Essays, Eds. Donald Burke, Colin Campbell, Kathy Kiloh, Michael Palmarek and Jonathan Short. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, pp. 296-315.
- “Primordial Enchantment: Print Media, Promotional Culture and the Hummer’s Siren Song” in The Call of the Hummer, Eds. Elaine Cardenas and Ellen Gorman. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007, pp. 89-113.
- “Gramsci, Organic Intellectuals and Cultural Studies: Lessons for Political Theorists” in Vocations of Political Theory. Eds. Jason Frank and John Tambornino. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, pp. 238-259.