Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity

ISBN-13: 9781032336275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 524 str.

Tema Milstein; José Castro-Sotomayor

Opis

Providing a transdisciplinary overview of this cutting-edge subject, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students and scholars of environmental communication, environmental sociology, human geography and environmental studies more broadly.

Recenzje

"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

                                                                                                                   

"The Handbook of Ecocultural Identity is an urgent call to the prevailing identity discussion. Amplifying the voiceless could - and should - encompass our environment, and not just the humans in it. If we can't recognise the value of the ecosystem which makes life possible, there's slim chance we'll remember to see the value in each other."

Ayishat Akanbi, cultural commentator and writer, United Kingdom

 

"If diversity is a crucial condition for healthy cultural and ecological affairs, it is also so in scholarly matters, and that is what readers will find in this excellent Handbook - a variety of ways of keeping our social and ecological worlds mutually articulated, healthily together."

Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts

 

"I am in complete solidarity with this book."

Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

"Some of the most transformative scholarship occurs when we don't simply critique the limits of existing approaches, but courageously throw in front of us new conceptual approaches or orientations, often marked in the first instance by new words. It is in this vein that the Handbook of Ecocultural Identity runs, offering up and then beginning to give form, colour, and texture to the term "ecocultural identity" as a way to think beyond a range of dichotomies that have constituted and normalized human exceptionalism and our violent estrangement from the eco-worlds in which we are embedded. In a spirit of humility and generosity, the editors do not try to fix this new term in the net of their own interpretations, but rather create a rich interdisciplinary and global forum where the chapter authors are welcomed to articulate their understandings of what ecocultural identity means, and what this term might do to how we might think and act. Readers too are invited to join the conversation in what promises to be a fertile approach to thinking and acting with appropriate humility in an era that is crying out for humans to come home to themselves as ecocultural beings." 

Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney

 

"The chapters in this Handbook lay the groundwork for a radical revisioning of human relations with/in the more-than-human world. The Handbook provides needed strategies for ecological resilience in the midst of the Anthropocene and for imagining our collective future."

Danielle Endres, University of Utah

 

 "As we find ourselves faced with the extreme environmental consequences of the Anthropocene, we need guides to help us negotiate appropriate ways of living with and understanding our relationship to the more-than-human world. This Handbook offers to the field a significant theoretical contribution, ecocultural identity, providing a practical and necessary guide for comprehending our inseparable place in the ecological web of life."

Barb Willard, DePaul University

 

 

 

 

Spis treści

Ecocultural Identity: An IntroductionTema Milstein, José Castro-Sotomayor

 

 Part I. Illuminating and Problematizing Ecocultural Identity

Chapter 1. Interbreathing Ecocultural Identity in the Humilocene

David Abram with Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor

Chapter 2. Ecocultural Identity Boundary Patrol and Transgression

Tema Milstein

Chapter 3. Borderland Ecocultural Identities

Carlos A. Tarin, Sarah D. Upton, Stacey K. Sowards

Chapter 4. Ecocultural Identities in Intercultural Encounters

José Castro-Sotomayor

Chapter 5. Western Dominator Ecocultural Identity and the Denial of Animal Autonomy

Laura Bridgeman

Chapter 6. Critical Ecocultural Intersectionality

Melissa Michelle Parks

Part II. Forming and Fostering Ecocultural Identity

Chapter 7. Intersectional Ecocultural Identity in Family Stories

Mariko Thomas

Chapter 8. Interspecies Ecocultural Identities in Human-Elephant Cohabitation

Elizabeth Oriel, Toni Frohoff

Chapter 9. Memory, Waterways, and Ecocultural Identity

Jeffrey Alan Hoffmann

Chapter 10. "Progressive Ranching" and Wrangling the Wind as Ecocultural Identity Maintenance in the Anthropocene

Casper G. Bendixsen, Trevor J. Durbin, Jakob Hanschu

Chapter 11. Constructing and Challenging Ecocultural Identity Boundaries among Sportsmen

Jessica Love-Nichols

Chapter 12. The Reworking of Evangelical Christian Ecocultural Identity in the Creation Care Movement

Emma Frances Bloomfield

Chapter 13. Navigating Ecocultural Indigenous Identity Affinity and Appropriation

Charles Carlin

Part III. Mediating Ecocultural Identity

Chapter 14. Identifying with Antarctica in the Ecocultural Imaginary

Hanne Nielsen

Chapter 15. Illegal Mining, Identity, and the Politics of Ecocultural Voice in Ghana

Eric Karikari, José Castro-Sotomayor, Godfried Asante

Chapter 16. Conservation Hero and Climate Villain Binary Identities of Swedish Farmers

Lars Hallgren, Hanna Ljunggren Bergeå, Helena Nordström Källström

Chapter 17. Modeling Watershed Ecocultural Identification and Subjectivity in the United States.

Jeremy Trombley

Part IV. Politicizing Ecocultural Identity

Chapter 18. Induced Seismicity, Quotidian Disruption, and Challenges to Extractivist Ecocultural Identity

Dakota K. T. Raynes, Tamara L. Mix

Chapter 19. Political Identity as Ecocultural Survival Strategy

John Carr, Tema Milstein

Chapter 20. The Making of Fluid Ecocultural Identities in Urban India

Shilpa Dahake

Chapter 21. Competing Models of Ecocultural Belonging in Highland Ecuador

Joe Quick, James T. Spartz

Chapter 22. Scapegoating Identities in the Anthropocene

Leonie Tuitjer

Part V. Transforming Ecocultural Identity

Chapter 23. A Queer Ecological Reading of Ecocultural Identity in Contemporary Mexico

Gabriela Méndez Cota

Chapter 24. Wildtending, Settler Colonialism, and Ecocultural Identities in Environmental Futures

Bruno Seraphin

Chapter 25. Toward a Grammar of Ecocultural Identity

Arran Stibbe

Chapter 26. Perceiving Ecocultural Identities as Human Animal Earthlings

Carrie P. Freeman

Chapter 27. Fostering Children’s Ecocultural Identities within Ecoresiliency

Shannon Audley, Ninian R. Stein, Julia L. Ginsburg

Chapter 28. Empathetic Ecocultural Positionality and the Forest Other in Tasmanian Forestry Conflicts

Rebecca Banham

 

Afterword. Surviving and Thriving: The Ecocultural Identity Invitation

Tema Milstein, José Castro-Sotomayor

Index

O autorze

Tema Milstein is an Associate Professor of Environment & Society at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her work tends to ways culture, society, and discourse inform – and are informed by – earthly relations.

José Castro-Sotomayor is an Assistant Professor at California State University Channel Islands, USA. His work investigates environmental and intercultural dynamics of human and more-than-human communication, agency, and dissent.