Ecologies of Guilt in Environmental Rhetorics

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-05650-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 161 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 343 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication

Environmental rhetorics have expanded awareness of mass extinction, climate change, and pervasive pollution, yet failed to generate collective action that adequately addresses such pressing matters. This book contends that the anemic response to ecological upheaval is due, in part, to an inability to navigate novel forms of environmental guilt.



Combining affect theory with rhetorical analysis to examine a range of texts and media, Ecologies of Guilt in Environmental Rhetorics positions guilt as a keystone emotion for contemporary environmental communication, and explores how it is provoked, perpetuated, and framed through everyday discourse. In revealing the need for emotional literacies that productively engage our complicity in global ecological harm, the book looks to a future where guilt—and its symbiotic relationships with anger, shame, and grief—is shaped in tune with the ecologies that sustain us.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jensen, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Guilt in/for Ecological Upheaval.- Chapter 2. Guilt's Plasticity.- Chapter 3. Eco-Friendly Scapegoats.- Chapter 4. Guilty of Shame in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 5. Guilty, Good Grief, New Mourning.

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Jensen is Assistant Professor and Director of Writing at Oregon State University, USA.