Samuel O. Ajala

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University of Arkansas

2 h-index 5 pubs 68 cited

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Samuel Ajala's research examines the intersection of environmental issues, corporate accountability, and political discourse, particularly concerning climate change denialism. His work investigates how corporate actions contribute to environmental crises, framing these as forms of environmental crime within the context of capitalism. Ajala has published on the concept of 'greenwashing' and its relationship to capitalism's inherent challenges.

He also analyzes climate-change denialism, exploring its political dimensions and its presence in participatory media through analytical and computational modeling. Ajala's research extends to environmental justice, examining rhetorical strategies for resistance, such as the 'Eti Uwem' rhetoric by Nnimmo Bassey, as a model for decolonizing environmental justice frameworks. His scholarly output includes five publications with an h-index of 2 and 69 citations.

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h-index: 2
Publications: 5
Citations: 68

Selected Publications

Decolonizing African Digital Orality: A Metaphoric Criticism of Nigerian Environmental Podcasts (2026)

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science OpenAlex
Shell’s Greenwashing by Proxy in Nigeria: Corporate Narratives and Media Representation (2026)

Journalism and Media DOI OpenAlex
A Mixed-Method Analysis of Climate-Change Denialism as Blunt-Edged Politics in Participatory Media Ecologies (2026)

The International Journal of Climate Change Impacts and Responses DOI OpenAlex
Analytical Modeling of Climate-Change Denialism as Blunt-Edged Politics in Participatory Media (2026)

DOI OpenAlex
Decolonizing Environmental Justice: Nnimmo Bassey's Eti Uwem Rhetoric as a Resistance Model (2025)

SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
Computational Modeling of Climate-Change Denialism as Blunt-Edged Politics in Participatory Media (2025)

SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
Cleaning up greenwash: corporate environmental crime and the crisis of capitalism (2025)

Environmental Communication 2 citations DOI OpenAlex