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by Tema Milstein, José Castro-Sotomayor, Laura Bridgeman, David Abram, Melissa M Parks, Mariko O Thomas, Elizabeth Oriel, Toni Frohoff, Jeffrey Hoffmann, Casper G Bendixsen, Jessica Love-Nichols, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Charles Carlin, Eric Karikari, Godfried Asante, Dakota Raynes, Shilpa Dahake, Joe Quick, Gabriela Méndez Cota, Carrie Packwood Freeman, and Rebecca Banham

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020

The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (2020) is a timely book, as across the globe more ... more The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (2020) is a timely book, as across the globe more and more of us awake to our always interconnected selves. The Handbook brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self and group identities, introducing an interdisciplinary, insightful assembly of original theory and research on planetary positionalities in flux in the Anthropocene – or what in this Handbook cultural ecologist David Abram presciently renames the Humilocene, a new “epoch of humility.” Forty international authors craft a kaleidoscopic lens, focusing on ways all identities are ecocultural and on the multiple and unspooling ways identities evolve and transform and, in so doing, may support reciprocal surviving and thriving.

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Introduction chapter, table of contents, and endorsements are posted here. More, including editor bios and authors, can be found at this Routledge link: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Ecocultural-Identity/Milstein-Castro-Sotomayor/p/book/9781138478411. Please help share the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity among your networks. And please ask your libraries to purchase the book (or put it on their to-buy lists if budgets have been temporarily frozen due to Covid). The Handbook is an important resource for our times for scholars, teachers, students, protectors, policy-makers, and practitioners. The editors, Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor, are available for Q&A, interviews, guest commentary, talks, etc. Thanks for your interest and for helping to spread word!

What has been said about the Handbook:
“Intricately transdisciplinary and cross-geographical, it is the first volume of its kind to caringly craft a gathering concept, that of ecocultural identities, bringing together the social, political, and ecological dimensions of identity. What results is a treasure of insights on the politics of life, broadly speaking, and a novel toolbox for tackling effectively the damages caused by modern capitalist modes of extraction and the urgent task of Earth’s ontological repair and renewal.”
Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“Too often mislabelled an ‘issue,’ the environment is in fact integral not just to everything we do but to who we are. This link between our identity and our ecology has long been recognised in many societies, but others seem to have forgotten its signal importance. This superb collection shows why all identities are ecocultural ones, and why full recognition of this is essential to all our political futures.”
Noel Castree, University of Manchester

“A smart, provocative, and original collection, the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity provides a definitive introduction to the constraints upon, and the contexts, formations, and impacts of, our diverse – but often unexamined – ecological selves.”
Robert Cox, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and three-time national president of the Sierra Club

“I am in complete solidarity with this book.”
Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz

by Tema Milstein, José Castro-Sotomayor, Laura Bridgeman, Carlos Tarin, Melissa M Parks, Jeffrey Hoffmann, Casper G Bendixsen, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Eric Karikari, Lars Hallgren, Dakota Raynes, John Carr, Bruno Seraphin, Carrie Packwood Freeman, Julia L Ginsburg, and Rebecca Banham

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020

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You may enjoy the following podcasts on the book:

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/ecocultural-identity/13311966

Climactic:
https://omny.fm/shows/climactic-1/gretchen-miller-tema-milstein-routledge-handbook-o

Custodians of the Planet:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/custodians-of-the/the-routledge-handbook-of-OuhdqzASWG-/

Journal Articles by José Castro-Sotomayor

Communication Theory, 2020

This article provides a comparative map of the outstanding discursive features and shared underpi... more This article provides a comparative map of the outstanding discursive features and shared underpinnings of the Limits and Transition discourses (TDs) by examining how they have been communicated to reshape the public sphere. Though both are deeply implicated in globalization, the formation of these environmental discourses responds to distinct sets of social agents and interests and to different but complementary ontological and epistemological grounds. In the Global North, the Limits discourse challenged the assumption of unmitigated growth yet has remained anthropocentric. Environmental TDs associated with the Global South present more contestatory positions on the notion of growth by problematizing human-centeredness and embracing a radical ethics of care. Limits and TDs represent paradigmatic shifts in the history of environmentalism. Accordingly, communication scholars should consider the lessons that can be taken from these discursive fields to foster regenerative ecocultural identities and animate progressive thinking on environmental governance and its communication practices that serve both human and non-human wellbeing.

Annals of the International Communication Association , 2020

Territorio and territorialidad are concepts particularly elucubrated and embraced by Indigenous a... more Territorio and territorialidad are concepts particularly elucubrated and
embraced by Indigenous and Afrodescendant communities in Latin
America as central to their struggles and demands. In this essay, I
approach the concept of territorialidad as a pragmatic and constitutive
environmental communication to argue that territoriality opens up ways
to interrogate space and place, translation, and identity. I based this
argument on my research with Awá, binational Indigenous people living
at the border between Ecuador and Colombia. As a decolonial option
from the Global South, territoriality (1) counters Western narratives that
privilege the global over the local; (2) offers novel ways to understand
translation as both a communicative practice and a historicist inquiry;
and, (3) furthers the notion of ecocultural identity.

Frontiers in Communication, 2019

In this paper, I use my work with the Gran Familia Awá Binacional (GFAB), an indigenous transboun... more In this paper, I use my work with the Gran Familia Awá Binacional (GFAB), an indigenous transboundary organization located at the border between Ecuador and Colombia, to redirect attention to ways organizations at-the-margins perform civic action. I understand at-the-margin organizations as those that (1) are not located in urban spaces; (2) have limited access to technology; and, (3) use non-dominant languages as a central element of their collective identity and struggle. Due to the increasing urban bio- and geo-graphy of the world, it seems that the literature on civic action has taken an expected shift in focus to reserve the attribution of civic action to movements taking place in cities; further, the influence attributed to technology in fostering collective action appears to divert attention away from organizations or movements whose practices are not dependent on, started from, and enhanced by technological innovations. I use Lichterman and Eliasoph (2014) definition of civic action—a kind of coordination that entails actions and relationships rather than beliefs, values, or a predefined social sector—to argue that as a communication practice and historicist inquiry (Briziarelli and Martínez-Guillem, 2016), translation is an epistemological device used by at-the-margin organizations to create spaces for civic action via the constant process of disturbing the language and rethinking the meaning embedded in hegemonic global environmental discourses such as climate change. I illustrate how members of the GFAB emplace the meaning of climate change, which I argue, is a rhetorical move that suggests a phenomenological place-based conceptualization of climate change that could function as both, a decolonial strategy and a pragmatic environmental communication that constitutes spaces for civic action to thrive.

Journal of Sustainability Education, 2018

Introduction “When I say ‘nature,’ I mean…” is the seemingly simple prompt for a pedagogical fre... more Introduction

“When I say ‘nature,’ I mean…” is the seemingly simple prompt for a pedagogical free write exercise developed by Tema Milstein (Milstein, Alhinai, Castro-Sotomayor, Griego, Hoffmann, Parks, Siebert & Thomas, 2017) to illuminate and open up for questioning and transforming our cultural assumptions, embodied meanings, and social constructions associated with the idea of “nature.” A free write is an activity that channels one’s stream of consciousness. Once given the prompt, you write without self-editing. Nonstop. No pauses to think. Keep the movement flowing. Feel it going through your fingers up to your wrist. Consciously embody your meaning, if only for a short while —the exercise lasts between three to five minutes. In Milstein’s exercise, participants then read over what they have written, looking for one term they feel answers what “nature” means to them, and they then recite that word aloud each after the other in a river of words. The exercise’s goal is to foster learning about sustainability that starts from within and moves outward. The river of words that results allows participants to identify their own ways of knowing “nature” and then to explore diverse and similar ways of thinking, feeling, and representing “nature,” including those that perpetuate dominant Western and industrial societies’ human/nature and society/nature binaries and those that represent lesser heard but ever enduring and reviving ecocentric ways of knowing.

In an open discussion that follows, learners address the nuances and power of meanings of “nature” by responding to some guiding questions, including: How difficult is it to put “nature” into words? How about one word? How do your chosen words represent our understanding and relationships with “nature”? Would it be different if instead of “nature” in this free write prompt, we used “environment,” “resource,” or “Gaia”? If, you could come up with a different word for “nature” that might relay more sustainable ways of knowing, what word would that be? The free write and the subsequent discussion encourage both awareness and examination of dominant, alternative, and counter ecocultural meanings embedded within ourselves and our societies and also create a transformative space in which to reconsider our relations within what Abram (1996) generatively terms the more-than-human world.

Inspired by and in answer to our experience with this educational exercise, we sought to explore a wide spectrum of current ecocultural relations through the creative methodology and expression of performance. We use compound terms such as “ecoculture,” “humanature,” and “humanimal,” and phrases such as “with/in/as ‘nature’” to discursively enmesh human and “nature” as they are in life (Milstein, 2012; Milstein, Anguiano, Sandoval, Chen, & Dickinson, 2011; Milstein & Dickinson, 2012). This creative scholarly discourse is itself a performance of symbolic action, an ongoing attempt at meaning-making and practice shifting. Accordingly, we reengaged the same free write as our entry point to initiate individual pieces and then interwove these into an intersubjective and responsive 35-minute group performance. Though some of us had significant experience in performance, the majority had none. Creating our performance challenged our beliefs and boundaries within and outside ourselves. In addition to stretching our comfort zones and modes of expression, the process allowed us to reflect in new ways on different environmental knowings, identities, and positionalities that continuously work in tandem, and at times in conflict, in our scholarship and personal lives. After exploring our own —as well as some oppositional— perspectives of “nature,” seeking interactions among our pieces provided generative catalysts, allowing us to develop more nuanced and multidimensional understandings of the ecocultural complexity spawned by different backgrounds, childhoods, access levels, travels, homes, humanature interactions, and the many other infinite layers that make us all multifaceted beings. In the creative process, our ways of dwelling in the world became more exposed and our understandings of humans with/in/as “nature” were challenged.

From this intimate struggle sprouted mutual recognition, albeit not without difficulty or tension. In this performance, environmental ideologies often hidden behind the veil of common sense, political posturings, or disciplined concealments emerge, intersect, and crash. Writing our pieces revealed beliefs and values we did not know we had, and the process led us to explore those ecocultural systems of meaning we cannot extricate from dominant anthropocentric ideologies as well as those we feel may illuminate contours of sustainable, restorative, and regenerative ways of knowing and being.

Below, we first present the script of our resulting performance of “When I say ‘nature.’” We then reflect on how writing and acting transformed us personally, and to what extent the performance was and continues to be essential to our ways of learning and teaching about sustainability, and of knowing and walking the Earth today and in the future. We close with insights on how movements, emotions, and multiple voices and personas coalesced in the learning process of performing environmental meanings and knowledges, and how this embodied education transformed us as Earthlings.

We first performed this piece as a peer reviewed performance at the 2015 Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) in Boulder, CO, USA, in response to the international conference’s theme that year: “Bridging Divides: Spaces of Scholarship and Practice in Environmental Communication” (you can access the recording here). We then performed the piece outdoors for students at the University of New Mexico in spring 2016 and, with just one of us performing a solo part, in spring 2017. The script is our inquisitive wonders engaging with deeper embodied insights to heal via reconnecting in a communal spirit and fostering imaginations that emerged as radically transformative, thus insinuating the need for a more nuanced and free scholarship. Performing it attuned us with the wider world and showed us the value of art as liberating pedagogic activism.

El presente artículo está dividido en dos partes: la primera hace una descripción de la fronte... more El presente artículo está dividido en dos partes: la primera hace una descripción de la frontera entre Colombia y Ecuador desde cuatro
miradas: la geopolítica, la económica, la sociocultural y la ambiental; la premisa es que la mirada hacia la frontera colombo-ecuatoriana ha estado y continúa sesgada por el tema de seguridad nacional que opaca
otras posibilidades de interpretación. La segunda parte presenta algunos procesos binacionales alrededor del tema ambiental y de desarrollo sostenible que se han desarrollado desde la sociedad civil. La dinámica de las sociedades de frontera se ha manifestado con más fuerza en proyectos, programas e iniciativas de cooperación, demostrando y exigiendo la diversificación de la agenda binacional. Se concluye que el ambiente debe considerarse como eje de la acción y las decisiones políticas de los gobiernos de Ecuador y Colombia y se plantean también algunos puntos de reflexión para una agenda binacional
ambiental.

Artículo que utiliza una etnografía de localidad- múltiple con el fin de analizar la dinámica... more Artículo que utiliza una etnografía de localidad- múltiple con el fin de analizar la dinámica de una organización sin fines de lucro y el lugar de ejecución del proyecto culturalen Barrio Logan, SanDiego, California. Desde los conceptos de arte y espacio público que guían las políticas culturales, el estudio redefine al barrio y su emblema identitario como espacios de resistencia cultural y contestación política revelando una lógica sui géneris en comparación con la formación de otros espacios públicos. Los objetivos del proyecto cultural de la organización serán analizados a la luz de esta redefinición con el fin de evaluar el proyecto.

Book Chapters by José Castro-Sotomayor

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity , 2020

This opening chapter of the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity’s first section provides a nuanced a... more This opening chapter of the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity’s first section provides a nuanced and embodied more-than-human framework for considering ecocultural identity from an influential transdisciplinary author and scholar, cultural ecologist and geophilosopher David Abram. Abram centers earthly existence as the focus point for moving through and past interrelated social and environmental problems. He shares insights about acknowledging and embracing identity via the path of remembering humanity’s interdependence “with so many other shapes and styles of sensitivity and sentience.” He elaborates on the intimate relations between language and the more-than-human world (his broadly influential term) and how those who write have the obligation to keep human language alive, and to transform and create new terms to evoke the world within which we are connected in an interbreathing vital flux of earthly organisms. In this vein, Abram introduces the term Humilocene to describe the current “epoch of humility” as a regenerative, ethical, and empathetic framework within which multiple ecologies of sensory experience interlock to engender ancient and new ways of being human – as a species, as animals, as sensory bodies – and to break from the predominant contemporary narcissistic human posture threatening existence on our planet. As a new epochal concept developed in this chapter, the Humilocene provides fresh and ecoculturally inclusive ways to understand and engage with contemporary environmental and sociocultural crises and to foster relational identifications that stimulate humble, holistic, and more-than-human conversations, opportunities, and actions.

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020

This introductory chapter of the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity provides a contextual overview ... more This introductory chapter of the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity provides a contextual overview of this collection of original theory and research as the first multi-lensed reference on ways individual and collective ecocultural identities emerge, endure, and transform. While questions of identity now are familiar in the academic and public spheres, much of the discussion about identity has occluded the ecological. At the same time, within a human-disrupted planet, increasingly it has become essential to address both the ecological and cultural natures of our identities on individual, local, and global scales. Our intention behind this Handbook is to help foster a radical epistemology focused on ways ecocultural selfhood is being, and could be, perceived, performed, and experienced in ways directly relevant to regenerative Earth futures. As such, the Handbook has three core transdisciplinary goals: First, to provide a prismatic overview of the emergent subject area of ecocultural identity for researchers, teachers, students, activists, and practitioners; second, to establish a definitive space for engaged scholars to examine, critique, activate, and advance reflections on ecocultural identity in everyday lives and structural processes; and, third, to illuminate the breadth, depth, and common threads of a diverse and growing body of knowledge and expertise across disciplines and ignite transdisciplinary interest in future research on planetary positionalities.

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity , 2020

The Afterword of the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity forefronts the creative theoretical and con... more The Afterword of the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity forefronts the creative theoretical and conceptual contributions of the volume to international transdisciplinary ecocultural scholarship. The editors outline the Handbook’s limits, and frame the collection as an invitation to begin ecocultural inquiry from the experience of identity and as an enticement to rethink and intervene in the selfhood underpinnings of perceptions and practices that profoundly impact each other and the wider biosphere.

Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice , 2017

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Intro paragraph: 'As teachers in the relatively new, but increasingly in-demand field of environmental communication, we often find ourselves introducing first-time courses to our departments, programs, and organizations. This chapter argues that, as we design courses, we also have the related opportunity and connected imperative to turn conventional learning inside-out. Indeed, this book as a whole provides a crucial moment to reflect on ways many environmental communication teachers are doing just that and a moment to further refine these practices. In this chapter, we elucidate an inside-out
classroom model (Milstein 2015) for teaching environmental communication, as well as environmental studies and the many related fields of learning. The model takes up Cox’s (2007) ethical duty of environmental communication within the realm of pedagogy, teaching learners about our current global anthropogenic ecological systemic crisis from a communication standpoint while empowering them to be ecocultural change agents. The goal with such an approach is to create transformative learning spaces in which learners’ inner concerns and passions find vital connection with their understandings of, and practices within, the wider biosphere.'

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020

In Chapter 15 of the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, Karikari, Castro-Sotomayor, and Asante exa... more In Chapter 15 of the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, Karikari, Castro-Sotomayor, and Asante examine ecocultural identities implicated in galamsey-illegal mining-in Ghana. Through critical analysis of media texts and public comments in social media networks, the authors investigate how galamsey workers' identities are constructed within the framework of ecological disasters. The authors' analysis shows ways news media reports, Ghana government press releases, and public discussion of ecological disruptions construct galamsey workers' identities through security discourses and the invisibility of resistant voices. The authors argue that media and public framing of galamsey workers' ecocultural identities is situated within global environmental discourses that support Western notions of development, justify legal large-scale industrial mining, and criminalize illegal small-scale mining in the name of growth and national prosperity. Underlying the legitimization of legal extractive practices is Ghana's contemporary ecocultural national imaginary, which stems from an ontological split between humans and the more-than-human world. Thus, the authors end this chapter by emphasizing Sankofa, an Akan Adinkra symbol (from the Asante ethnic group in Ghana) meaning to 'return and take back,' as an ontological shift that can rekindle Ghanaian Indigenous ecocultural identities centering intrinsic interconnection and mutuality between humans and the more-than-human world.

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, 2020

The human-centeredness intrinsic to dominant understandings of intercultural relations tends to u... more The human-centeredness intrinsic to dominant understandings of intercultural relations tends to undermine, or maybe completely forget, the ecological dimension of our human selves and the environmental conditions in which identities arise. In Chapter 4 of the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, Castro-Sotomayor demonstrates how an ecocultural perspective on identity illuminates different ways to understand intercultural relations and ethnicity, race, and class-based approaches to these relations. The author examines his collaborative work with the Gran Familia Awá Binacional, a transboundary Indigenous organization working on the border between Ecuador and Colombia, to understand the discursive construction of Awá, Mestizo, and Afrodescendant ecocultural identities and its implications for Awá territoriality. Castro-Sotomayor illustrates the ecological perspective on the politics of identity and interrogates the emphasis on the cultural dimension in current understandings of identity formation. Then, the author focuses on two kinds of ecocultural identities, restorative and unwholesome, and illustrates how the insider-outsider and respect-disrespect dialectics inherent in these dueling identities inform inter-and intra-ecocultural relations among Awá, Mestizo, and Afro populations. Castro-Sotomayor closes this chapter by presenting ideas on how an ecocultural perspective can contribute to efforts to diversify and enhance transdisciplinary fields of inquiry that seek to open paths away from anthropocentric identity constraints that impede the embrace of radical changes our species needs for survival.

Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice, 2017

by Tema Milstein, Aaron Phillips, Geo Takach, Carlos Tarin, Emily Plec, Bridie McGreavy, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Leah Sprain, Karey Harrison, Joy M Hamilton, Stephen Griego, Jeffrey Hoffmann, José Castro-Sotomayor, Maggie Siebert, and Melissa M Parks

Given the urgency of environmental problems, how we communicate about our ecological relations is... more Given the urgency of environmental problems, how we communicate about our ecological relations is crucial. Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice is concerned with ways to help learners effectively navigate and consciously contribute to the communication shaping our environmental present and future. The book brings together international educators working from a variety of perspectives to engage both theory and application. Contributors address how pedagogy can stimulate ecological wakefulness, support diverse and praxis-based ways of learning, and nurture environmental change agents. Additionally, the volume responds to a practical need to increase teaching effectiveness of environmental communication across disciplines by offering a repertoire of useful learning activities and assignments. Altogether, it provides an impetus for reflection upon and enhancement of our own practice as environmental educators, practitioners, and students. Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice is an essential resource for those working in environmental communication, environmental and sustainability studies, environmental journalism, environmental planning and management, environmental sciences, media studies and cultural studies, as well as communication subfields such as rhetoric, conflict and mediation, and intercultural. The volume is also a valuable resource for environmental communication professionals working with communities and governmental and non-governmental environmental organisations.

Table of Contents

Introducing Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice Tema Milstein, Mairi Pileggi, & Eric Morgan

Section One: (Re)conceptualizing the Environmental Communication Classroom

Chapter 1. From Negotiation to Advocacy: Linking Two Approaches to Teaching Environmental Rhetoric. Garret Stack and Linda Flower

Chapter 2. Pedagogy as Environmental Communication: The Rhetorical Situations of the Classroom. Jessica Prody

Chapter 3. Environmental Communication Pedagogy: A Survey of the Field. Joy Hamilton and Mark Pedelty

Chapter 4. Breathing Life into Learning: Ecocultural Pedagogy and the Inside-Out Classroom. Tema Milstein, Maryam Alhinai, José Castro, Stephen Griego, Jeff Hoffmann, Melissa M. Parks, Maggie Siebert, and Mariko Thomas.

Section Two: Diverse Practices in Teaching Environmental Communication

Chapter 5. The Role of Social Constructionism as a Reflexive Tool in Environmental Communication Education. Lars Hallgren

Chapter 6. "Deep Impressions": The Promise and Possibilities of Intercultural Experiential Learning for Environmental Literacy and Language Attitudes. Aaron Philips

Chapter 7. Further Afield: Performance Pedagogy, Fieldwork, and Distance Learning in Environmental Communication Courses. Mark Pedelty and Joy Hamilton

Chapter 8. Arts-Based Research in the Pedagogy of Environmental Communication. Geo Takach

Chapter 9. Developing Visual Literacy Skills for Environmental Communication. Antonio Lopez

Chapter 10. Teaching Environmental Journalism Though Distance Education. Gabi Mocatta

Section Three: Transformative Practice: Nurturing Change Agents

Chapter 11. Changing Our Environmental Future: Student Praxis Through Community Inquiry. Eli Typhina

Chapter 12. Storytelling as Action. Mairi Pileggi and Eric Morgan

Chapter 13. Insider Windows in Nepal: A Critical Pedagogy for Empowering Environmental Change Agents. Grady Walker

Chapter 14. Repair Cafés - Reflecting on Materiality and Consumption in Environmental Communication. Sigrid Kannengießer

Chapter 15. Cultivating Pride: Transformative Leadership and Capacity Building in the Rare-UTEP Partnership. Carlos A. Tarin, Sarah D. Upton, Stacey K. Sowards, Kenneth C. C. Yang

Section Four: Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice Toolbox

Chapter 16. "Moral Vision Statement" Writing Assignment Instructions for Students. Carrie P. Freeman

Chapter 17. Environmental Privilege Walk: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Tema Milstein and Stephen Griego

Chapter 18. An Experiential Approach to Environmental Communication. Emily Plec.

Chapter 19. Greening Epideictic Speech. Jake Dionne

Chapter 20. Praxis-based environmental communication training: Innovative activities for building core capacities. Bridie McGreavy, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Leah Sprain, Jessica L. Thompson, Laura Lindenfeld

Chapter 21. Image(ination) and Motivation: Challenging Definitions and Inspiring Environmental Stakeholders. Mary Stroud

Chapter 22. Using Infographics. Antonio Lopez

Chapter 23. News Media Analysis. Carrie P. Freeman

Chapter 24. Newschart Assignment. Karey Harrison

Chapter 25. Speaking for/to/as Nature. Maggie Siebert

Chapter 26. Creating Emotional Proximity with Environment. Maria Clara Valencia

Chapter 27. Growing up with Animals (on screens). Gabi Hadl

Chapter 28. The Student-Run Environmental Communication Blog. Katherine Cruger

Book Reviews by José Castro-Sotomayor

Reports by José Castro-Sotomayor

Informe final del proyecto desarrollado en las tres bioregiones de frontera Ecuador-Colombia: Pa... more Informe final del proyecto desarrollado en las tres bioregiones de frontera Ecuador-Colombia: Pacífico, Andes, y Amazonía. Temas: descripción socioeconómica, institucional y ambiental; mapeo de actores gubernamentales, ONGs nacionales e internacionales y organizaciones comunitarias; identificación de proyectos ambientales de carácter local y binacional. Recomendaciones de política pública.

Essays & Short Contributions by José Castro-Sotomayor