Jensen Ecologies of Guilt in Environmental Rhetorics

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-05651-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 161 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Psychology and Our Planet

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

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.