Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations (Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene) - Hardcover

C. Vail Fletcher; Alexa M. Dare

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1793629285 ISBN 13: 9781793629289

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2021

Synopsis

The purpose of Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations is to tell a different story about the world. Humans, especially those raised in Western traditions, have long told stories about themselves as individual protagonists who act with varying degrees of free will against a background of mute supporting characters and inert landscapes. Humans can be either saviors or destroyers, but our actions are explained and judged again and again as emanating from the individual. And yet, as the coronavirus pandemic has made clear, humans are unavoidably interconnected not only with other humans, but with nonhuman and more-than-human others with whom we share space and time. Why do so many of us humans avoid, deny, or resist a view of the world where our lives are made possible, maybe even made richer, through connection? In this volume, we suggest a view of communication as intimacy. We use this concept as a provocation for thinking about how we humans are in an always-already state of being-in-relation with other humans, nonhumans, and the land.

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About the Authors

Laura Mattoon D'Amore is associate professor of cultural studies at Roger Williams University.

Todd LeVasseur is visiting assistant professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston.

Elizabeth Oriel received her PhD in global studies from the University of London. She is currently based at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Mark Terry is contract faculty professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University.

Mariko Oyama Thomas is an interdisciplinary scholar and holds a PhD in Environmental Communication from the University of New Mexico. She is also Co-Founder of the arts and ecology collaborative Submergence Collective and Teaching Faculty at Skagit Valley College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1793629285
• ISBN 13: 9781793629289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 444