Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. The editors introduce a broad, insightful assembly of original theory and research on planetary positionalities in flux in the Anthropocene - or what in this Handbook cultural ecologist David Abram presciently renames the Humilocene, a new "epoch of humility." Forty international authors craft a kaleidoscopic lens, focusing on the following key interdisciplinary inquiries:

Part I illuminates identity as always ecocultural, expanding dominant understandings of who we are and how our ways of identifying engender earthly outcomes.

Part II examines ways ecocultural identities are fostered and how difference and spaces of interaction can be sources of environmental conviviality.

Part III illustrates consequential ways the media sphere informs, challenges, and amplifies particular ecocultural identities.

Part IV delves into the constitutive power of ecocultural identities and illuminates ways ecological forces shape the political sphere.

Part V demonstrates multiple and unspooling ways in which ecocultural identities can evolve and transform to recall ways forward to reciprocal surviving and thriving.

The **Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity provides an essential resource for scholars, teachers, students, protectors, and practitioners interested in ecological and sociocultural regeneration.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity has been awarded the 2020 Book Award from the National Communication Association's (USA) Environmental Communication Division.

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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.

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The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. The editors introduce a broad, insightful assembly of original theory and research on planetary positionalities in flux in the Anthropocene - or what in this Handbook cultural ecologist David Abram presciently renames the Humilocene, a new "epoch of humility." Forty international authors craft a kaleidoscopic lens, focusing on the following key interdisciplinary inquiries: Part I illuminates identity as always ecocultural, expanding dominant understandings of who we are and how our ways of identifying engender earthly outcomes. Part II examines ways ecocultural identities are fostered and how difference and spaces of interaction can be sources of environmental conviviality. Part III illustrates consequential ways the media sphere informs, challenges, and amplifies particular ecocultural identities. Part IV delves into the constitutive power of ecocultural identities and illuminates ways ecological forces shape the political sphere. Part V demonstrates multiple and unspooling ways in which ecocultural identities can evolve and transform to recall ways forward to reciprocal surviving and thriving. The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity provides an essential resource for scholars, teachers, students, protectors, and practitioners interested in ecological and sociocultural regeneration. The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity has been awarded the 2020 Book Award from the National Communication Association's (USA) Environmental Communication Division.

Inhalt

Ecocultural Identity: An Introduction*Tema 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