Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication
London; New York: Routledge;Earthscan (2019), xxi, 412 pp.
Contains figures, index
ISBN 978-1-315-16734-3 (ebook); 978-1-138-05313-7 (hbk)
"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 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." (Publisher description)
PART I: NEW FRAMEWORKS
1 Ecocriticism and discourse / Andrew McMurry, 15
2 The climate of change: graphic adaptation, The Rime of the Modern Mariner, and the ecological uncanny / Pramod K. Nayar, 26
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 / C. A. Cranston, 36
4 Communicating resistance in/through an aquatic ecology: a study of K. R. Meera’s The Gospel of Yudas / Gayathri Prabhu, 54
5 Transformative entanglements: birds and humans in three non-fictional texts / Wendy Woodward, 63
6 Discovering the Weatherworld: combining ecolinguistics, ecocriticism, and lived experience / Arran Stibbe, 71
7 Narrative communication in environmental fiction: cognitive and rhetorical approaches / Markku Lehtimäki, 84
8 Postcolonial development, socio-ecological degradation, and slow violence in Pakistani fiction / Saba Pirzadeh, 98
9 How the material world communicates: insights from material ecocriticism / Serpil Oppermann, 108
10 Scale in ecological science writing / Derek Woods, 118
11 The literal and literary conflicts of climate change: the climate migrant and the unending war against emergence / Shane Hall, 129
12 Reconceptualizing the individual as a social actor in environmental communication / Julia B. Corbett, 143
PART II: PRAGMATIC COMMUNICATION
13 Directionality in Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow: ecocritical art history and visual communication / Alan C. Braddock, 155
14 Challenges to developing a long-term environmental perspective: PAN and DIM / Patrick D. Murphy, 167
15 The “Chernobyl Syndrome” in U.S. nuclear fiction: toward risk communication parameters of “nuclear phobia” / Inna Sukhenko, 175
16 Art as eco-protest and communication in Tanure Ojaide’s selected poetry / Joyce Onoromhenre Agofure, 187
17 Nature writing in the Anthropocene / Christian Hummelsund Voie, 199
18 Experimental ecocriticism, or how to know if literature really works / Wojciech Malecki, 211
19 Grey literature, green governance / James R. Goebel, 224
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 / T. Ravichandran and Nibedita Bandyopadhyay, 242
21 Cows, corn, and communication: how the discourse around GMOs
impacted legislation in the EU and the USA / Annka Liepold, 255
22 Science, wonder, and new nature writing: Rachel Carson / Saskia Beudel, 265
PART III: NON-WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION
23 Designing the communication of traditional ecological knowledge: a Noto case study / Yuki Masami, 279
24 Cosmopolitan communication and ecological consciousness in Latin America: Miguel Gutierrez's Babel, el paraiso / Roberto Forns-Broggi, 291
25 Communicating with the Cosmos: contemporary Brazilian women poets and the embodiment of spiritual values / Izabel F.O. Brandao and Edilane Ferreira da Silva, 301
26 Women's street artivism in India and Brazil: Shilo Shiv Suleman's pan-indigenous environmental movement / Aarti Smith Madan, 314
27 Novelist as eco-shaman: Buket Uzuner's Water [Su] as requesting spirits to help the earth in crisis / Pinar Batur and Ufuk Özdag, 326
28 Environmentalism in the realm of Malaysian novels in English / Zainor Izat Zainal, 339
29 Ecomedia nurture Japanese ecological identity / Keitaro Morita, 351
30 Indigenous interiority as nature–culture–sacred continuum: an ecological analysis of Have You Seen the Arana? / Rayson K. Alex, 363
31 Risk, resistance, and memory in two narratives by Asian women / Chitra Sankaran, 373
32 Environmental NGOs and environmental communication in China / Chen Hong, 384
Afterword / Homero Aridjis and Betty Ferber, 391
1 Ecocriticism and discourse / Andrew McMurry, 15
2 The climate of change: graphic adaptation, The Rime of the Modern Mariner, and the ecological uncanny / Pramod K. Nayar, 26
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 / C. A. Cranston, 36
4 Communicating resistance in/through an aquatic ecology: a study of K. R. Meera’s The Gospel of Yudas / Gayathri Prabhu, 54
5 Transformative entanglements: birds and humans in three non-fictional texts / Wendy Woodward, 63
6 Discovering the Weatherworld: combining ecolinguistics, ecocriticism, and lived experience / Arran Stibbe, 71
7 Narrative communication in environmental fiction: cognitive and rhetorical approaches / Markku Lehtimäki, 84
8 Postcolonial development, socio-ecological degradation, and slow violence in Pakistani fiction / Saba Pirzadeh, 98
9 How the material world communicates: insights from material ecocriticism / Serpil Oppermann, 108
10 Scale in ecological science writing / Derek Woods, 118
11 The literal and literary conflicts of climate change: the climate migrant and the unending war against emergence / Shane Hall, 129
12 Reconceptualizing the individual as a social actor in environmental communication / Julia B. Corbett, 143
PART II: PRAGMATIC COMMUNICATION
13 Directionality in Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow: ecocritical art history and visual communication / Alan C. Braddock, 155
14 Challenges to developing a long-term environmental perspective: PAN and DIM / Patrick D. Murphy, 167
15 The “Chernobyl Syndrome” in U.S. nuclear fiction: toward risk communication parameters of “nuclear phobia” / Inna Sukhenko, 175
16 Art as eco-protest and communication in Tanure Ojaide’s selected poetry / Joyce Onoromhenre Agofure, 187
17 Nature writing in the Anthropocene / Christian Hummelsund Voie, 199
18 Experimental ecocriticism, or how to know if literature really works / Wojciech Malecki, 211
19 Grey literature, green governance / James R. Goebel, 224
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 / T. Ravichandran and Nibedita Bandyopadhyay, 242
21 Cows, corn, and communication: how the discourse around GMOs
impacted legislation in the EU and the USA / Annka Liepold, 255
22 Science, wonder, and new nature writing: Rachel Carson / Saskia Beudel, 265
PART III: NON-WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION
23 Designing the communication of traditional ecological knowledge: a Noto case study / Yuki Masami, 279
24 Cosmopolitan communication and ecological consciousness in Latin America: Miguel Gutierrez's Babel, el paraiso / Roberto Forns-Broggi, 291
25 Communicating with the Cosmos: contemporary Brazilian women poets and the embodiment of spiritual values / Izabel F.O. Brandao and Edilane Ferreira da Silva, 301
26 Women's street artivism in India and Brazil: Shilo Shiv Suleman's pan-indigenous environmental movement / Aarti Smith Madan, 314
27 Novelist as eco-shaman: Buket Uzuner's Water [Su] as requesting spirits to help the earth in crisis / Pinar Batur and Ufuk Özdag, 326
28 Environmentalism in the realm of Malaysian novels in English / Zainor Izat Zainal, 339
29 Ecomedia nurture Japanese ecological identity / Keitaro Morita, 351
30 Indigenous interiority as nature–culture–sacred continuum: an ecological analysis of Have You Seen the Arana? / Rayson K. Alex, 363
31 Risk, resistance, and memory in two narratives by Asian women / Chitra Sankaran, 373
32 Environmental NGOs and environmental communication in China / Chen Hong, 384
Afterword / Homero Aridjis and Betty Ferber, 391
