Ecological Feelings

A Rhetorical Compendium

Buch | Hardcover

331 Seiten

2025
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61186-524-0 (ISBN)

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These days, earthly coexistence often feels bad. As environmental crises amass, they cast a shadow over an imagined future and the promises of better—or at least predictable—days to come. In times of climate chaos, mass extinction, and rampant environmental injustice, it is easy to despair. But, here and there, a glimmer of joy or optimism shines forth and reminds us that it is possible—even necessary—to love and to hope amid the ruins. The contributors to this volume grapple with a plurality of interrelated ecological feelings: care, concern, contempt, empathy, fear, grief, hope, joy, numbness, optimism, possessiveness, regret, and saudades. Informed by a rhetorical perspective, the essays collected here reveal what sets our ecological feelings into motion. Crucially, they also uncover some of the rhetorical practices through which we might collectively feel our way into a more harmonious earthly coexistence.

Joshua Trey Barnett is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. An interdisciplinary scholar, he traverses the fields of rhetoric, critical theory, and the environmental humanities. His book Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence won the 2022 Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award in Environmental Communication.

Contents
Introduction
Care, Joshua Trey Barnett
Concern, Chris Ingraham
Contempt, Eric S. Jenkins and Peter K. Bsumek
Empathy, Ariel K. McK. Burgess
Fear, Emma Frances Bloomfield
Grief, Jessica Chaplain
Hope, Jennifer Clary-Lemon
Joy, Mariko O. Thomas
Numbness, Jeremy G. Gordon
Optimism, Dustin A. Greenwalt
Possessiveness, Elizabeth Brunner
Regret, T. Jake Dionne
Saudades, Joanne Marras Tate
Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	2
Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-61186-524-7 / 1611865247
ISBN-13	978-1-61186-524-0 / 9781611865240
Zustand	Neuware