Voice and Environmental Communication

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: Voice and the Environment—Critical Perspectives....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Corporate Ventriloquism: Corporate Advocacy, the Coal Industry, and the Appropriation of Voice....Pages 21-43
Defending the Fort: Michael Crichton, Pulp Fiction, and Green Conspiracy....Pages 44-65
Invoking the Ecological Indian: Rhetoric, Culture, and the Environment....Pages 66-87
Sustainable Advocacy: Voice for and before an Intergenerational Audience....Pages 88-109
Response Essay: The (Im)possibility of Voice in Environmental Advocacy....Pages 110-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Voices of Organic Consumption: Understanding Organic Consumption as Political Action....Pages 127-147
Vote with Your Fork: The Performance of Environmental Voice at the Farmers’ Market....Pages 148-169
Response Essay: Thinking through Issues of Voice and Consumption....Pages 170-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
The Language That All Things Speak: Thoreau and the Voice of Nature....Pages 183-204
The Ethics of Listening in the Wilderness Writings of Sigurd F. Olson....Pages 205-227
Listening to the Natural World: Ecopsychology of Listening from a Hawai’ian Spiritual Perspective....Pages 228-240
Response Essay: Environmental Voices Including Dialogue with Nature, within and beyond Language....Pages 241-256
Coda: Food, Future, Zombies....Pages 257-263
Back Matter....Pages 264-269