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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Environmental Discourse"”.
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Silent Spring's Metaphors: Insights for 21st Century Environmental Discourse
… a book hailed as the motivation for a new environmental movement in the United States. The use of metaphor in Silent Spring is most apparent in the title. The title's focus, however poignant, even moving and motivating, is complemented by a rich set of metaphorical entailments and …
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Indigenous Climatic Perspectives: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Environmental Discourse Analysis
… presents a multidisciplinary analysis of climate discourse from Indigenous Climatic Perspectives (ICP). This research highlights how the manner in which we relate intellectually, culturally and spiritually to the environment has been dictated by economic ideology developed within Euro-American …
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The alienation of humans from nature: media and environmental discourse
Environmental problems are discouraging. Extensive and growing media consumption in the U.S. may be one of a few reasons. Communication constructs how people experience and understand nature, and corporate ownership of media influences the content (Beder, 2004). What does this discouragement look …
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Truth and Reconciliation at the Bay: Environmental Discourse, Contested Notions of Human-Creation Relations in Mnidoo Gaamii/Georgian Bay, and Indigenous-Cottager Relations
How does environmental conservation land use planning, an endeavour that seeks to provide tools to combat climate change and protect habitat from destruction through development, contribute to the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands/waters in Mnidoo Gamii/Georgian Bay? Through an …
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The FAO's Use of Fear and Forestry as Tools of Neoliberal Economics
… agency that produces agricultural and environmental information for individual states and other international agencies, such as the World Bank. The FAO's forestry studies pander to Western fears of environmental degradation, assumptions of African backwardness, and the assumed …
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Ranges of consideration: crossing the fields of ecology, philosophy and science studies.
Environmental issues are often complex with many different constituents operating according to a broad range of communication techniques. In order to foster negotiations, different perspectives need to be articulated in lucid ways sensitive to various viewpoints and circumstances. In my thesis I …
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Race, Retreat, and Refuge: Black Voices, American Nature Writing, and Ecocritical Exile
… scholarship has begun to recognize the extensive environmental experience of African Americans during the nineteenth century, black-authored environmental writing from the era is conspicuously scant in studies and anthologies into the present, even in volumes devoted to ecocritically-inflected …
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Tensions in (Agri)Culture: The Negotiation of Environmental Dialectics at an Urban Farmers Market'
… following study shows how dialectal tensions in environmental discourse are negotiated and serve to create and sustain the culture of an urban farmers market. Using theories of cultural communication as both theoretical grounding and methodology, the author was able to identify and interpret the …
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Water and Power: The Environmental Politics of a Virginia Reservoir
… attempts to problematize the power relations in environmental administration and decision making through the analytical lens of environmental discourse and ethics. It argues that developments in environmental politics reveal a marked increase in democratic involvement through an emerging …
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Negotiating Environmental Relationships: Why Language Matters to Environmental Philosophy
The medium of language is important to environmental philosophy, and more specifically, to the establishment and understanding of environmental relationships. The differences between animal and human language point to our unique semantic range, which results from our neuro-linguistic process of …
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Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023
… critical essay entitled Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023. The creative work is life writing based on my experience of living and working on a market garden, intertwined with nature writing, history, biography and other types of creative …
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Dwelling in Ecological Poetry: Emily Dickinson's Nature Poems and Henry David Thoreau's Walden
… an ecofeminist phenomenology. I argue that the environmental ethic of wonder and the ecofeminist expression of the human being as a “self-in-relationship” offer an essential opening into Heidegger’s conception of authentic dwelling. I invoke Dickinson and Thoreau as contributors to our modern …
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Dwelling in Ecological Poetry: Emily Dickinson's Nature Poems and Henry David Thoreau's Walden
… an ecofeminist phenomenology. I argue that the environmental ethic of wonder and the ecofeminist expression of the human being as a “self-in-relationship” offer an essential opening into Heidegger’s conception of authentic dwelling. I invoke Dickinson and Thoreau as contributors to our modern …
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Elites and Carbon-Offsetting in Brazil: A Critique of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Mato Grosso
… area. It documents and analyses the social and environmental claims made in the context of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and explores how these played out in the rural state of Mato Grosso. This study is primarily based on documentary research and ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mato …
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An Overheated Debate: The Influence of Premillennial Apocalyptic Rhetoric on Climate Reform Discourse in the United States
… helps us understand how even the most pressing environmental and societal threats are perceived differently according to audiences' rhetorical and ideological frameworks. Drawing on the work of Barry Brummett and Kenneth Burke, I argue that the premillennial sub-genre of apocalyptic rhetoric …
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Changing lives, changing nature(s): socio-environmental transitions in the uplands of the Lao PDR
… interventions in the uplands, and the social and environmental outcomes of these interventions. For that purpose, livelihood analysis is integrated into the theoretical framework of political ecology. The study adopts a ‘hybrid’ and locally-grounded approach that integrates methods from the social …
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Protesting conservation by protecting the environment: A case study from the Indian Himalayas
… in January 2009 and December 2010, I explore how environmental discourse has become embroiled in resource politics at the village level. Emanating from centers of knowledge production and disseminated to the village level through mass media, children’s education, and other means, modern …
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The Rise of a Technoscientific Third Pole: Environmental Data Practices in High Mountain Asia
… Asia”). A region with a dearth of in-situ environmental data and opaque, fragmented governance, remote sensing data plays a key role in uncovering the region’s environmental concerns. These range from disasters such as flooding and earthquakes that have devastated the region to the glacial …
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Ecosystem Management in the USDA Forest Service: A Discourse Analysis
This dissertation examines the environmental discourse of the USDA Forest Service, focusing on the language of ecosystem management (EM). A two pronged approach was employed: eleven interviews were conducted with agency executives (chapter two); thirty-three interviews were conducted with agency …
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