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Notes
1. 1.This issue derives to a great extent from the AHRC-funded ‘Spectacular Environmentalisms’ research network (2010–12; AH/H039279/1) and we are therefore grateful to all its participants and to the AHRC’s Researching Environmental Networks scheme. We would also like especially to thank the anonymous reviewers of the papers and the guidance from Su and Sean, as editors of the journal, for helping this special issue get to print. NB: we did also ask a female commentator to contribute to this issue, but she was unfortunately taken ill and unable to contribute her commentary.
2. 2.For more on these and other examples of the contradictions of environmental celebrities in practice, see Maxwell and Miller (Citation2011).
3. 3.But what about ‘non-charismatic’ or ‘ugly’ natures – something Lorimer (Citation2007) does not necessarily cover? If the UK food personality Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fish fight – a TV, internet and social-media campaign dedicated to stopping the wasting of over-quota and ‘wrong types’ of caught fish in EU waters – is anything to go by, then non-charismatic species such as ‘trash fish’ might actually require the charisma of real celebrities such as Hugh to speak for and about them and act as their celebrified public face.