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Ecospeak

Author : M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809380978
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Ecospeak written by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer have a twofold purpose: to analyze the patterns of rhetoric used in written discourse about environmental politics and to make a practical contribution to the art of rhetorical criticism through the study of rhetoric in use. The language, professional objectivity, and research programs of scientists insulate these best-informed citizens in enclaves of specialization, limiting access to crucial information and hindering effective reformative action. Science, the authors stress, is not merely a database to rely upon but a view of the world that must be broadened in order to affect social morality. Science-based activism must arise to ensure the care and future of the environment. Killingsworth and Palmer argue that for grassroots activism to be tied to this globally conscious philosophy, a rhetoric of sustainability must be cultivated.

Ecosee

Author : Sidney I. Dobrin
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438425849
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Ecosee written by Sidney I. Dobrin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the rhetorical role of images in communicating environmental ideas.

Mediating Nature

Author : Sidney I. Dobrin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429678177
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Mediating Nature written by Sidney I. Dobrin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediating Nature considers how technology acts as a mediating device in the construction and circulation of images that inform how we see and know nature. Scholarship in environmental communication has focused almost exclusively on verbal rather than visual rhetoric, and this book engages ecocritical and ecocompositional inquiry to shift focus onto the making of images. Contributors to this dynamic collection focus their efforts on the intersections of digital media and environmental/ecological thinking. Part of the book’s larger argument is that analysis of mediations of nature must develop more critical tools of analysis toward the very mediating technologies that produce such media. That is, to truly understand mediations of nature, one needs to understand the creation and production of those mediations, right down to the algorithms, circuit boards, and power sources that drive mediating technologies. Ultimately, Mediating Nature contends that ecological literacy and environmental politics are inseparable from digital literacies and visual rhetorics. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of Ecocriticism, Ecocomposition, Media Ecology, Visual Rehtoric, and Digital Literacy Studies.

The Language Of Environment

Author : George Myerson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317821629
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Language Of Environment written by George Myerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. “Environment” challenges modern knowledge and its institutions: academic disciplines, research groups, journals and presses, syllabuses and texts, professions and data banks, media experts and policy advisors. The language of environment makes no policy proposals, it is not prescriptive. But it is an attempt to think about the cultural context of all proposals and prescriptions, the cultures of authority and expertise in our time. How is knowledge made to count, and how do all the different claims connect, or collide?

Indonesia and the Politics of Disaster

Author : Phillip Drake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315525119
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Indonesia and the Politics of Disaster written by Phillip Drake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named after Lapindo Brantas, a gas exploration company that was drilling at the eruption site, the Lapindo mudflow initially burst in 2006 and continues to flow today, becoming the most expensive disaster in Indonesia’s history. Using this environmental incident in Indonesia as a case study, this book explores representations of disaster in scientific reports, public discourse, literature, and other cultural forms, observing the impact of these portrayals on the ways people both understand and respond to complicated environmental disasters. The author argues that power is expressed and contested in every representation of a disaster and its stakeholders. This book develops terminologies and perspectives that not only probe the social and ecological conditions that make disaster possible but also foster more effective and equitable strategies for adapting to a world fraught with hazards. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book makes a significant contribution to the fields of green cultural studies, disaster studies, science and technology studies and studies of political ecology in Southeast Asia.

Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America

Author : Mark Anderson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498530966
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America written by Mark Anderson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the reach of industrialization. Scientists and popular culture alike have turned to the term "Anthropocene" to capture the global scale of environmental and even geological transformations that humans have carried out over the last two centuries. The chapters in Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America examine the dynamics and interplay between local cultures and the expansion of global capitalism in Latin America, emphasizing the role of art in bearing witness to and generating awareness of environmental and social crises, but also its possibilities for formulating solutions. They take particular care to draw out the ways in which local environmental crises in Latin American nations are witnessed and imagined as part of a global system, focusing on the problems of time, scale, and complexity as key terms in conceiving the dimensions of crisis. At the same time, they question the notion of the Anthropocene as a species-wide "human" historical project, making visible the coloniality of natural resource extraction in Latin America and its dire effects for local people, cultures, and environments. Taking an ecocritical approach to Latin American cultural production including literature, film, performance, and digital artwork, the chapters in this volume develop a notion of ecological crisis that captures not only its documentary sense in the representation of environmental destruction (the degradation of the oikos), but also the crisis in the modern worldview (logos) that the acknowledgment of crisis provokes. In this sense, crisis is also the promise of a turning point, of the possibilities for change. Latin American representations of ecological crisis thus create the conditions for projects that decolonize environments, developing new, sustainable ways of conceiving of and relating to our world or returning to old ones.

Technological Forms and Ecological Communication

Author : Piyush Mathur
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498520480
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Technological Forms and Ecological Communication written by Piyush Mathur and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the phenomena of technology, science, technique, and mass communication, Piyush Mathur contends that the enterprise of science communication may be misleading vis-à-vis technology—if in part because it frequently coextends with a flawed, but dominant, notion of science that presumptuously implicates technology anyway. Grappling with what authentically constitutes science and the prospective effects of its realization on a global future of mass communication, Mathur explores how various technological forms play specifically into ecologically sensitive mass communication. The result is an eco-communicative theory of technology that includes its classification based upon a set of qualitative principles and a profile of the notion of development. On the whole, though, Technological Forms and Ecological Communication: A Theoretical Heuristic brings the fields of philosophy and history of science, philosophy and sociology of technology, communication studies, and development studies into conversation with one another.

Ecological Stylistics

Author : Daniela Francesca Virdis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303110658X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Stylistics written by Daniela Francesca Virdis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the cutting edge in ecostylistic approaches to nature, the environment and sustainability as represented in contemporary non-literary discourse. Firstly, the book presents the ecolinguistic and stylistic terms and theories applied in this ecostylistic analysis (ecosophy, beneficial, ambivalent and destructive discourses; and foregrounding, point of view, metaphor), and reviews the most recent literature in the field of ecostylistics. Secondly, the book examines the occurrences of five marker words (nature, environment, ecosystem, ecology, sustainability) on the websites of five environmental organisations and agencies (Forestry England, Greenpeace International, National Park Service, Navdanya International, World Wide Fund for Nature). The main research purpose of this study is to identify beneficial discourses in the environet and to investigate the beneficial ecostylistic strategies utilised to produce them. Above all, this book reminds us humans that we do not stand apart from nature: we are a part of it. The book will be of interest to scholars of stylistics, ecolinguistics and ecocriticism, as well as scholars of discourse analysis, environmental communication and environmental humanities.

Introduction to the Environmental Humanities

Author : J. Andrew Hubbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135120033X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Environmental Humanities written by J. Andrew Hubbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of climate change, deforestation, melting ice caps, poisoned environments, and species loss, many people are turning to the power of the arts and humanities for sustainable solutions to global ecological problems. Introduction to the Environmental Humanities offers a practical and accessible guide to this dynamic and interdisciplinary field. This book provides an overview of the Environmental Humanities’ evolution from the activist movements of the early and mid-twentieth century to more recent debates over climate change, sustainability, energy policy, and habitat degradation in the Anthropocene era. The text introduces readers to seminal writings, artworks, campaigns, and movements while demystifying important terms such as the Anthropocene, environmental justice, nature, ecosystem, ecology, posthuman, and non-human. Emerging theoretical areas such as critical animal and plant studies, gender and queer studies, Indigenous studies, and energy studies are also presented. Organized by discipline, the book explores the role that the arts and humanities play in the future of the planet. Including case studies, discussion questions, annotated bibliographies, and links to online resources, this book offers a comprehensive and engaging overview of the Environmental Humanities for introductory readers. For more advanced readers, it serves as a foundation for future study, projects, or professional development.

Ecospeak

Author : M.J. KILLINGSWORTH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Ecospeak written by M.J. KILLINGSWORTH and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Twilight Mystique

Author : Amy M. Clarke
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786462043
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Twilight Mystique written by Amy M. Clarke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13 essays in this volume explore Stephenie Meyer's wildly popular Twilight series in the contexts of literature, religion, fairy tales, film, and the gothic. Several examine Meyer's emphasis on abstinence, considering how, why, and if the author's Mormon faith has influenced the series' worldview. Others look at fan involvement in the Twilight world, focusing on how the series' avid following has led to an economic transformation in Forks, Washington, the real town where the fictional series is set. Other topics include Meyer's use of Quileute shape-shifting legends, Twilight's literary heritage and its frequent references to classic works of literature, and the series' controversial depictions of femininity.

Greenspeak

Author : Rom Harré
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780761917045
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Greenspeak written by Rom Harré and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-11-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary examination of the discourse of environmentalism, the authors explore the linguistic, philosophical, psychological and cultural-historical aspects of environmental discourse; rather than environmental phenomena themselves. This volume is not advocacy on environmentalism, rather, it is an analysis of the means of persuasion and the techniques of advocacy used by both sides of the environmental debate between `conservationists' and `conservatives'. The book includes an analysis of the concepts of time and space in their linguistic manifestations. Another theme is the interdependencies of the natural world with political and economic institutions.

Environmental Protection

Author :
Publisher : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Protection written by and published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undergraduate-level textbook explores environmental problems from the perspective of the social sciences and humanities.

Collecting Nature

Author : Andrew G. Kirk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Collecting Nature written by Andrew G. Kirk and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finds in the history of Denver's Conservation Library a microcosm of the growth of the environmental movement as a whole.

Earth Works

Author : Jim Dwyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Earth Works written by Jim Dwyer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Works is the only comprehensive guide available to the best new and classic books about nature and the environment for adults and YAs. It provides descriptive entries for trade nonfiction and scholarly or technical books, and a significant number of fiction titles which are of interest to both the general public and specialists. Each chapter defines its scope, then identifies key books or authors, and refers to notable related works in other chapters.

The Search for the Perfect Language

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631205101
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Search for the Perfect Language written by Umberto Eco and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-04-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history. From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was just such a language, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants from the catastrophe of the Fall and at Babel. The recovery of that language would, for theologians, express the nature of divinity, for cabbalists allow access to hidden knowledge and power, and for philosophers reveal the nature of truth. Versions of these ideas remained current in the Enlightenment, and have recently received fresh impetus in attempts to create a natural language for artificial intelligence. The story that Umberto Eco tells ranges widely from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins. He demonstrates the initimate relation between language and identity and describes, for example, how and why the Irish, English, Germans and Swedes - one of whom presented God talking in Swedish to Adam, who replied in Danish, while the serpent tempted Eve in French - have variously claimed their language as closest to the original. He also shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority. To this subtle exposition of a history of extraordinary complexity, Umberto Eco links the associated history of the manner in which the sounds of language and concepts have been written and symbolized. Lucidly and wittily written, the book is, in sum, a tour de force of scholarly detection and cultural interpretation, providing a series of original perspectives on two thousand years of European History. The paperback edition of this book is not available through Blackwell outside of North America.

Green Talk in the White House

Author : Tarla Rai Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Green Talk in the White House written by Tarla Rai Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted scholars examine various aspects of half a dozen modern presidencies to shed light not only on those administrations but also on the study of environmental rhetoric itself.