Overview
- Clarifies how guilt functions rhetorically, culturally, and politically within environmental communication
- Offers principles for new emotional literacies that help us navigate complicity in a collective problem that is global in scope and unprecedented in scale
- Advocates for an ecological approach to the rhetorical study of emotion
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication (PSMEC)
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Environmental rhetorics have expanded awareness of mass extinction, climate change, and pervasive pollution, yet failed to generate collective action that adequately addresses such pressing matters. This book contends that the anemic response to ecological upheaval is due, in part, to an inability to navigate novel forms of environmental guilt.
Combining affect theory with rhetorical analysis to examine a range of texts and media, Ecologies of Guilt in Environmental Rhetorics positions guilt as a keystone emotion for contemporary environmental communication, and explores how it is provoked, perpetuated, and framed through everyday discourse. In revealing the need for emotional literacies that productively engage our complicity in global ecological harm, the book looks to a future where guilt—and its symbiotic relationships with anger, shame, and grief—is shaped in tune with the ecologies that sustain us.
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Tim Jensen is Assistant Professor and Director of Writing at Oregon State University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecologies of Guilt in Environmental Rhetorics
Authors: Tim Jensen
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05651-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05650-6Published: 06 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05651-3Published: 28 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6451
Series E-ISSN: 2634-646X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 161
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Communication, Media and Communication, Climate Change Management and Policy