Environmental Communication and Community: Constructive and Destructive Dynamics of Social Transformation

ISBN-13: 9780815359210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 284 str.

Opis

This book provides a critical examination of the role communication plays in both construction and destruction of community. The authors examine the processes and practices put in play when people who may or may not have previously seen themselves as interconnected, communicate with each other, often in situations where they are competing for the same resource. Drawing upon a diverse selection of case-studies, including joint forest management in East Sikkim, India and natural resource management conflict in the Netherlands and Sweden, the chapters chart a range of key topics, including symbolic construction, modes of organising and the politics of communication.

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction and conceptual framing for community constructivity and deconstructivity  1. Introduction  2. Reframing Conflict in Natural Resource Management: Mutuality, Reciprocity, and Pluralistic Agonism as Dynamics of Community Constructivity and Destructivity  Part 2 Constructing and deconstructing community  3. Process Literacy: Theory and practice for multi-cultural community-based deliberative democracy  4. Performances of an International Professional Community: CCS/CCUS and its National Contexts  5. How Reductive Scientific Narratives Limit Possibilities for Community Participation in Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study in Texas, USA    6. Community Conversations on Conservation: A Case Study of Joint Forest Management in East Sikkim, India  7. Wildlife Conservation as Public Good: The Public Trust Doctrine and the North American Model of Wildlife Management  8. Dialogue for Nature Conservation: Attempting to Construct an Inclusive Environmental Policy Community in Sweden  9. Deconstructing Public Space to Construct Community: Guerilla Gardening as Place-based Democracy  10. Emotions in Communicative Practice: Legitimation and De-legitimation in Environmental Conflicts in the Netherlands and Sweden  11. Community Construction through Culturally Rooted Celebration: Turtles all the Way Down  12. Seized and Missed Opportunities in Responding to Community Conflicts: Constructivity and Destructivity in Forest Conflict Management in Finland and British Columbia  13. Divergent meanings of participation: Ethnographies of communication in water governance in California and Colorado  Part 3 Conclusion and summary  14. Conclusion