Communicating in the Anthropocene : intimate relations / edited by Alexa M. Dare and C. Vail Fletcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dare, Alexa MacKellar, editor.

Fletcher, Courtney Vail, 1979- editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Environmental communication and nature: conflict and ecoculture in the anthropocene.

Environmental communication and nature: conflict and ecoculture in the anthropocene

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication and culture.

Communication and technology.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 pages).

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Table of Contents Foreword: Undisciplined Stories Acknowledgments Carol J. Adams 1. Introduction: Intimate Relations for Earthly Survival Alexa Dare and C. Vail Fletcher Part I: Grief, Resilience, and Storytelling 2. Vigilant Mourning and the Future of Earthly Coexistence Joshua Trey Barnett 3. Presence and Absence in the Watershed: Storytelling for the Symbiocene Emily Plec 4. The Trouble with Resilience Jessica Holmes 5. Solastalgia and Art Therapy in Climate Change Chelsea Call 6. Living (in) Spider Webs: More-than-Human Intimacy in Installation Art by Tómas Saraceno Katharina Alsen Part II: Nonhuman Collaborators: Oysters, Birds, and Elephants 7. The Permeable Heart: Mindfulness in Animal-Human Communication Peggy J. Bowers 8. Intimacy on the Half-Shell: Place, Oysters, and the Emerging Narrative of Virginia Aquaculture Anne K. Armstrong, Richard C. Stedman, and Marianne E. Krasny 9. i am naiad: Becoming Benthic laura c carlson 10. Ada Clapham Govan and "Birds I Know:" Ecological Intimacy in a Mass-mediated Sisterhood Peter W. Oehlkers and Anna Ijiri Oehlkers 11. Dialogic Elephant and Human Relations in Sri Lanka as Social Practices of Cohabitation Elizabeth Oriel, Deepani Jayantha, and Amal Dissanayaka 12. ocean medicine, mother medicine, and sky medicine Michaela Keeble Part III: Plants and Other Family Members 13. Weirding Wellness: Mushrooms, Medicine, and the Uncanny Renaissance of Psilocybin in the Chthulucene Josh Potter 14. Multispecies Motherhood: Connecting with Plants Through Processes of Procreation Mariko Oyama Thomas 15. Plant Persons, More-Than-Human Power, and Institutional Practices in Indigenous Higher Education Keith Williams and Suzanne Brant 16. OAK Marybeth Holleman 17. Objects/Ecologies: Jardin d'Incertitude le système ecologique et l'objet technologique Christianna Bennett Part IV: Nonhuman Agency, Activism and Legal Personhood 18. If the Ocean Were a Person Jenny Rock and Ellen Sima 19. Personal Affairs: Litigating Nonhuman Animal Personhood in the Anthropocene S. Marek Muller 20. Tahlequah's Internatural Activism: Situating the Body and the Intimacy of Grief as Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Change Madrone Kalil Schutten 21. Never the Same River Twice: How Legal Personhood of Rivers Affects Perceived Stability of Policy Solutions Carie Steele 22. The Titans at the Heart of the Anthropocene: Diving into the Non-human Imagery of Leviathan Patricia Castello Branco 23. Listen to the Lake: Nature as Stakeholder Kathy Isaacson 24. The Geo-Doc: A Proposed New Communications Tool for Planetary Health Mark Terry Part V: Gender, Earthly Intimacies, and Other Trouble 25. Intimate Dwelling and Mourning Loss in the (m)Anthropocene: Ecological Masculinities and the Felt Self Todd LeVasseur and Paul M. Pule 26. The Climate Gaze and Koalas in Extremis Lyn McGaurr and Libby Lester 27. From Fatbergs to Microplastics: New Intimacies of an Extruded World Paul Alberts 28. Doga Için Çal (Play for Nature) Çagri Yilmaz 29. Subversive Art: Communicating the Climate Crisis on a Planetary Scale Catherine Sarah Young

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-66698-703-4

1-7936-2929-3

OCLC:

1399569897