Voice and Environmental Communication

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: Voice and the Environment—Critical Perspectives

   1. Introduction: Voice and the Environment—Critical Perspectives

      • Jennifer Peeples, Stephen Depoe

      Pages 1-17

3. Voice and Environmental Advocacy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Corporate Ventriloquism: Corporate Advocacy, the Coal Industry, and the Appropriation of Voice

      • Peter K. Bsumek, Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, Jennifer Peeples

      Pages 21-43

   3. Defending the Fort: Michael Crichton, Pulp Fiction, and Green Conspiracy

      • Patrick Belanger

      Pages 44-65

   4. Invoking the Ecological Indian: Rhetoric, Culture, and the Environment

      • Casey R. Schmitt

      Pages 66-87

   5. Sustainable Advocacy: Voice for and before an Intergenerational Audience

      • Jessica M. Prody, Brandon Inabinet

      Pages 88-109

   6. Response Essay: The (Im)possibility of Voice in Environmental Advocacy

      • Danielle Endres

      Pages 110-123

4. Voice and Consumption

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Voices of Organic Consumption: Understanding Organic Consumption as Political Action

      • Leah Sprain

      Pages 127-147

   3. Vote with Your Fork: The Performance of Environmental Voice at the Farmers’ Market

      • Benjamin Garner

      Pages 148-169

   4. Response Essay: Thinking through Issues of Voice and Consumption

      • Laura Lindenfeld

      Pages 170-179

5. Listening to Nonhuman Voices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. The Language That All Things Speak: Thoreau and the Voice of Nature

      • William Homestead

      Pages 183-204

   3. The Ethics of Listening in the Wilderness Writings of Sigurd F. Olson

      • David A. Tschida

      Pages 205-227

   4. Listening to the Natural World: Ecopsychology of Listening from a Hawai’ian Spiritual Perspective

      • Yukari Kunisue

      Pages 228-240

   5. Response Essay: Environmental Voices Including Dialogue with Nature, within and beyond Language

      • Donal Carbaugh

      Pages 241-256

   6. Coda: Food, Future, Zombies

      • Eric King Watts

      Pages 257-263

6. Back Matter

   Pages 264-269

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Voice and Environmental Communication explores how people give voice to, and listen to the voices of, the environment. This foundational book introduces the relationship between these two fundamental aspects of human existence and extends our knowledge of the role of voice in the study of environmental communication.

• Voice
• Environment
• Rhetoric
• Communication
• Advocacy
• Consumption
• Nature
• and Listening
• communication
• environment
• rhetoric

• Utah State University, USA

  Jennifer Peeples

• University of Cincinnati, USA

  Stephen Depoe

Patrick Belanger, California State University, Monterey Bay, USA Pete Bsumek, James Madison University, USA Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Stephen Depoe, University of Cincinnati, USA Danielle Endres, University of Utah, USA Benjamin Garner, University of Kansas, USA William Homestead, New England College, USA Yukari Kunisue, Hawaii Tokai International College, USA Laura Lindenfeld, University of Maine, USA Jennifer Peeples, Utah State University, USA Jessica M. Prody St. Lawrence University, USA Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines, USA Casey R. Schmitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Steve Schwarze, University of Montana at Missoula, USA Leah Sprain, University of Colorado Boulder, USA David A. Tschida, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA Eric King Watts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Policies and ethics