Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)

Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook aims to reinforce the common concerns and methodologies of the sibling disciplines. The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication charts the history of the relationship between ecocriticism and environmental communication studies, while also highlighting key new paradigms in information studies, diverse examples of practical applications of environmental communication and textual analysis, and the patterns and challenges of environmental communication in non-Western societies. Contributors to this book include literary, film and religious studies scholars, communication studies specialists, environmental historians, practicing journalists, art critics, linguists, ethnographers, sociologists, literary theorists, and others, but all focus their discussions on key issues in textual representations of humannature relationships and on the challenges and possibilities of environmental communication. The handbook is designed to map existing trends in both ecocriticism and environmental communication and to predict future directions. This handbook will be an essential reference for teachers, students, and practitioners of environmental literature, film, journalism, communication, and rhetoric, and well as the broader meta-discipline of environmental humanities. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of contributors Foreword – M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer Introduction What is ecocriticism and how has the field developed? Ecocriticism and environmental communication How this book is structured and why Works cited PART I: New frameworks 1. Ecocriticism and discourse The human discourse show Discourses: big and small Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and literature Textual modes of ecological engagement Transitivity in the ecotext Truth in discourse Themes and rhemes The resources of CDA Further reading Works cited 2. The climate of change: graphic adaptation, The Rime of the Modern Mariner, and the ecological uncanny The antiquarian uncanny Waste and the decadent sublime The mythic uncanny Conclusion: climate graphics Works cited 3. Eco churches, eco synagogues, eco Hollywood: 21st-century practical responses to Lynn White, Jr.’s and Andrew Furman’s 20th-century readings of environments in crisis Raising the red flag Selective, and exploitative Assessing the audience: religious responsibility Prefacing some difficulties for ecocritical exegesis: translation, and translating values Further questions of value: ecocriticism and assessing unfamiliar, and ancient, landscapes Raising the green flag: introducing the concept of eco churches “Tahlee Centre for creation care”, NSW, Australia Connecting the local: small mob motivation A global response from the city of 0.17 square mile Typology and plurality: ultra-orthodoxy and liberal Ashkenazim “People of the book”: a text-centred worldview Shifting focus: Hollywood, ecocriticism and ecomedia Jewish Hollywood and ecology Becoming animated: green media and Jewish tzedakah From the representational to the material space of an eco synagogue Conclusion Notes Works cited 4. Communicating resistance in/through an aquatic ecology: a study of K.R. Meera’s The Gospel of Yudas Postscript Acknowledgments Works cited 5. Transformative entanglements: birds and humans in three non-fictional texts Conclusion Acknowledgement Note Works cited 6. Discovering the Weatherworld: combining ecolinguistics, ecocriticism, and lived experience Introduction Sunshine holidays The weather forecast Running in the Weatherworld UK nature writing Japan Conclusion Notes Works cited 7. Narrative communication in environmental fiction: cognitive and rhetorical approaches Ecocriticism and narratology: tensions and dialogues Fictional minds in natural environments A rhetorical view on environmental communication Conclusion Notes Works cited 8. Postcolonial development, socio-ecological degradation, and slow violence in Pakistani fiction Notes Works cited 9. How the material world communicates: insights from material ecocriticism Notes Works cited 10. Scale in ecological science writing Superorganism as synecdoche Chains Wheels Terraria and aquaria Computers, networks Works cited 11. The literal and literary conflicts of climate change: the climate migrant and the unending war against emergence Introducing the climate migrant “Monstro” and the apocalyptic insecurity of the security state Notes Works cited 12. Reconceptualizing the individual as a social actor in environmental communication Limitations of the “autonomous individual” Individuals as social actors A holistic view of individuals and social change Considerations for environmental communication and research Note Works cited PART II: Pragmatic communication 13. Directionality in Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow: ecocritical art history and visual communication A transnational artist Cole and directionality Verticality Political ecology Works cited 14. Challenges to developing a long-term environmental perspective: PAN and DIM Note Works cited 15. The “Chernobyl Syndrome” in U.S. nuclear fiction: toward risk communication parameters of “nuclear phobia” Introduction The “Chernobyl Syndrome” Nuclear phobia within risk communication parameters Nuclear phobia in American nuclear fiction about the Chernobyl disaster Conclusion Note Works cited 16. Art as eco-protest and communication in Tanure Ojaide’s selected poetry Postcolonial ecocriticism and technological advancement in Daydream of Ants and Other Poems Oil exploitation and the postcolonial condition in Delta Blues and Home Songs Works cited 17. Nature writing in the Anthropocene Works cited 18. Experimental ecocriticism, or how to know if literature really works Back to the roots Why ecocriticism needs more experimenting What is experimental ecocriticism? What experimental ecocriticism is not Note Works cited 19. Grey literature, green governance A study of grey, boring things Grey literature and the “modern” problem of communication Green governance and the “modern” problem of nature Conclusion: bridging the gap Notes Works cited 20. When thirst had undone so many: a postcolonial ecocritical analysis of water crisis in Ruchir Joshi’s The Last Jet-Engine Laugh and Girish Malik’s Jal Works cited 21. Cows, corn, and communication: how the discourse around GMOs impacted legislation in the EU and the USA Introduction Short introduction to plant breeding GMOs in the US Anti-GMO movement in the US GMOs and the anti-GMO movement in the EU Posterchild of evil? Conclusion Notes Works cited 22. Science, wonder, and new nature writing: rachel Carson Wonder and new forms of nature writing Wonder and science Carson and an enduring sense of wonder Wonder as a corrective to destructive urges: pre-emptive activism Wonder, imagination and writing Notes Works cited PART III: Non-Western environmental communication 23. Designing the communication of traditional ecological knowledge: a Noto case study Deep Noto, the Dark Pastoral, and TEK Team Maruyama and its spatial and cultural location Designing the activity for communication Blending scientific knowledge into traditional knowledge Learning through the senses Communication through food Notes Works cited 24. Cosmopolitan communication and ecological consciousness in Latin America: miguel Gutiérrez’s Babel, el paraíso Note Works cited 25. Communicating with the Cosmos: contemporary Brazilian women poets and the embodiment of spiritual values Hilda Hilst: the Cosmos of the body and God’s crooked ways Adélia Prado: the divine in the small details Helena Parente Cunha: cosmic unity and the forest portal Arriete Vilela: the word is God and God is poetry Notes Works cited 26. Women’s street artivism in India and Brazil: Shilo Shiv Suleman’s pan-indigenous environmental movement The Fearless Collective: Brazil Fearless after Brazil: a feminist cartographer’s toolkit Works cited 27. Novelist as eco-shaman: Buket Uzuner’s Water [Su] as requesting spirits to help the earth in crisis Introduction Shamanistic variations and the world of the Kutadgu Bilig Uzuner’s Water [Su] The novelist as eco-shaman Works cited 28. Environmentalism in the realm of Malaysian novels in English Environmentalism in Malaysia “Hard Times”: Keris Mas’s Jungle of Hope “Environmental Movement Was Born”: Yang-May Ooi’s The Flame Tree “Marching Forward”: K.S. Maniam’s Between Lives and Chuah Guat Eng’s Days of Change Conclusion Note Works cited 29. Ecomedia nurture Japanese ecological identity Introduction Research method Analysis: ecomedia nurture Japanese ecological identity Conclusion Notes Works cited 30. Indigenous interiority as nature–culture–sacred continuum: an ecological analysis of Have You Seen the Arana? Introduction The indigenous interiority and exteriority Analyzing Barclay’s concept of fourth cinema Have You Seen the Arana? as fourth cinema The four stories of socio-environmental crises The journey of people and deity Mythical representation in the film Conclusion Works cited 31. Risk, resistance, and memory in two narratives by Asian women Note Works cited 32. Environmental NGOs and environmental communication in China Case one: academics, environmental NGOs, and anti-dam actions Case two: environmental NGOs, progress, and problems Notes Works cited Afterword – Homero Aridjis and Betty Ferber Index Although Formally Named In 1978 And Officially Recognized As A Burgeoning Discipline In The Early 1990s, The Field Of Ecocriticism (environmental Approaches To Textual Analysis And Cultural Studies) Has Actually Existed For A Very Long Time, Perhaps Dating Back To The Earliest Commentaries On Natural Themes In Ancient Sacred Texts. The Environmental Approach To Literature--and Soon Thereafter To Other Artistic Media And Popular Culture--began To Receive Widespread Public Attention In The Mid-1990s. For Many Years, Ecocriticism And Environmental Communication Studies Have Co-existed As Parallel Disciplines, Occasionally Crossing Paths But Typically Operating In Separate Academic Spheres. The Fields Of Ecocriticism And Environmental Communication Studies Are Now Rapidly Converging, And This Handbook Aims To Reinforce The Common Concerns And Methodologies Of The Sibling Disciplines. This Handbook Charts The History Of The Relationship Between Ecocriticism And Environmental Communication Studies, While Also Highlighting Key New Paradigms In Information Studies, Diverse Examples Of Practical Applications Of Environmental Communication And Textual Analysis, And The Patterns And Challenges Of Environmental Communication In Non-western Societies. Contributors To This Book Will Include Literary Scholars And Film Scholars, Communication Studies Specialists, Environmental Historians, Religious Studies Scholars, Practicing Journalists, Art Critics, Linguists, Ethnographers, Economists, And Others, But All Will Focus Their Discussions On Key Issues In Textual Representations Of Human-nature Relationships And On The Challenges And Possibilities Of Environmental Communication. The Handbook Is Designed To Map Existing Trends In Both Ecocriticism And Environmental Communication And To Predict Future Directions (or, Rather, An Increasingly Unifieddirection As The Fields Increasingly Overlap). This Book Will Be An Essential Reference For Teachers, Students, And Practitioners Of Environmental Literature, Film, Journalism, Communication, And Rhetoric And Well As The Broader Meta-discipline Known As The Environmental Humanities.