Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene (New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiali)

How do we understand the lives of nonhuman animals and our relationship with and responsibilities to them? What are the artifacts or things that help configure such perceived responsibility? And what does it mean to practice conservation in the Anthropocene? Amy D. Propen seeks to answer these questions in __Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene__, which brings a visual-material rhetorical approach into conversation with material feminisms and environmental humanities to describe how technologies, environments, bodies, and matter work together to shape and reshape how we coexist with our nonhuman kin. Through case studies in which visual technologies and science play a prominent role in arguments to protect threatened marine species-from photographs showing the impact of ocean plastics on vulnerable sea birds, to debates about seismic testing and its impact on marine species, to maps created from GPS tracking projects-Propen advances a notion of posthuman environmental conservation that decenters the human enough to consider ideas about the material world from the vantage point of the nonhuman animal. In so bringing together work in environmental humanities, animal studies, human geography, and visual-material rhetoric, Propen further shows how interdisciplinary ways of knowing can further shape and illuminate our various lived and embodied experiences. Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene by Amy D. Propen HALF TITLE PAGE TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT Contents Acknowledgments PREFACE: The Scrub Jay and the Peanut CHAPTER 1: Agential Entanglements and the Paradoxes of Anthropocene Technoscience What's So Important About How We Think About Agency? Trajectories in Rhetoric and Materiality: Or, Visual-Material Rhetorics and/Informed by New Materialisms Early Conceptions of Material Rhetoric New Materialisms and Its Intersections with Visual-Material Rhetorics Compassionate Conservation, Embodied Communication, and Visuality Visibility, Vulnerability, and Advocacy The Precarious Paradox of Visualization Toward a Posthuman Conservation Ethic Chapter Summaries CHAPTER 2: Material Rhetoric in the Midway On Data Collection and Analysis The Naturalcultural Matter of Vulnerable, Embodied Bodies An Historically Vulnerable Body The Vulnerable, Embodied Albatross The Matter of Vulnerable Bodies, Reflected and Diffracted On the Problematics of Representation: Reflections and Diffractions The Photo as Embodied, Visual-Material Rhetoric: Reflections and Diffractions Paradoxical Reflections Trans-Corporeal Diffractions Visual-Material, Embodied, Nontoxic Practices that Share Toxic, Elemental Space Affective Inscriptions as Part of Material Discursive Practice Affectual, Material Discursive Practice: The Work of the Photos Paradox: In Shimmer, Love Gathering into Sentiment(s) In Material Discursive Practice, Mourning and World-Making Mourning as Ethical Obligation and Necessary for Becoming With Conclusion CHAPTER 3: Seismic Risks and Vulnerable Bodies On Data Collection and Analysis Risk and Discourse in Technoscience Weighing the Risk-Benefit Ratio Mitigating Risk in a Risk Society The “Seismic Survey Safety” Infographic The Track Line Map The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) Advisory Council Memo Surfrider’s Opposition Letter The Initial and Larger Rhetorical Implications of the MBNMS’s and Surfrider’s Maps Risk as Perpetuated and Sustained through Discourse Arguments and Attitudes About Valuing Marine Species in the Context of Seismic Testing Utilitarian and Extrinsic Rationales as Also Qualified with Ecologistic Concerns Ecologistic Concerns as Considered Part of Larger Concerns of “Do No Harm” The Principle of “Do No Harm” as Aligned with Compassionate Conservation Compassionate Conservation Meets Posthuman Technoscience Compassionate Conservation in an Age of Technoscience: The California Sea Otter Conclusion CHAPTER 4: Tracking to Sea (in the Anthropo-scene The Atlas as Visual-Material Rhetoric On Data Collection and Analysis The Rhetorical Work of Maps and Photos in the "Species" Section Remote Tracking Technology, Visual-Material Environmental Rhetorics, and the Conservation of Marine Species: Toward a Posthuman, Compassionate Conservation Wildlife Tracking and Compassionate Conservation as Embodied Practice Agency and Posthuman Knowledge-Making in the Atlas Conclusion CHAPTER 5: Conclusion Notes Notes to the Preface Notes to Chapter 1 Notes to Chapter 2 Notes to Chapter 3 Notes to Chapter 4 Notes to Chapter 5 Works Cited Index SERIES PAGE "Merges a visual-material rhetorical framework with ideas about environmental conservation and the posthuman to examine cases in which visual technologies play a prominent role in arguments to protect threatened marine species: photographs of ocean plastics, seismic testing debates, and conservation maps created from GPS tracking. Advances a notion of posthuman environmental conservation"-- Provided by publisher