Voice and environmental communication
By: edited by Jennifer Peeples, Utah State University, USA, Stephen Depoe, University of Cincinnati, USA
Series: Palgrave studies in media and environmental communication
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781137433732
Subjects: Communication in the environmental sciences; Mass media and the environment; NATURE / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Description: "Voice and Environmental Communication explores how people give voice to, and listen to the voices of, the environment. As anxieties around degrading environments increase, so too do the number and volume of voices vying for the opportunity to express their experiences, beliefs, anxieties, knowledge and proposals for meaningful change. Nature itself speaks through, and perhaps to, individuals who advocate on behalf of the environment. This collection includes nine original essays organized into three sections: Voice and Environmental Advocacy, Voice and Consumption, and Listening to Non-human Voices. Four notable scholars reflect on these chapters, and provide both an audience to the scholars as well as a forum for extending their own understanding of voice and the environment. This foundational book introduces the relationship between these two fundamental aspects of human existence and extends our knowledge of the role of voice in the study of environmental communication.  "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Voice and the Environment; title: Critical Perspectives; Jennifer Peeples and Stephen DepoePART I: VOICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY1. Corporate Ventriloquism: Corporate Advocacy, the Coal Industry, and the Appropriation of Voice; Peter K. Bsumek, Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, Jennifer Peeples2. Defending the Fort: Michael Crichton, Pulp Fiction, and Green Conspiracy; Patrick Belanger3. Invoking the Ecological Indian: Rhetoric, Culture, and the Environment; Casey R. Schmitt4. Sustainable Advocacy: Voice For and Before an Intergenerational Audience; Jessica M. Prody and Brandon Inabinet5. RESPONSE ESSAY: The (Im)possibility of Voice in Environmental Advocacy; Danielle EndresPART II: VOICE AND CONSUMPTION6. Voices of Organic Consumption: Understanding Organic Consumption as Political Action; Leah Sprain7. Vote With Your Fork: The Performance of Environmental Voice at the Farmers' Market; Benjamin Garner8. RESPONSE ESSAY: Thinking through Issues of Voice and Consumption; Laura LindenfeldPART III: LISTENING TO NON-HUMAN VOICES9. The Language that All Things Speak: Thoreau and the Voice of Nature; William Homestead10. The Ethics of Listening in the Wilderness Writings of Sigurd F. Olson; David A. Tschida11. Listening to the Natural World: Ecopsychology of Listening From a Hawai'ian Spiritual Perspective; Yukari Kunisue12. RESPONSE ESSAY: Environmental Voices Including Dialogue with Nature, Within and Beyond Language; Donal CarbaughCODA: Food, Future, Zombies; Eric King Watts.