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In Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations, the contributors analyze how to live in connection with other beings in the face of crisis and to engage the concept of the Anthropocene from within.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Foreword: Undisciplined Stories
Acknowledgments
Carol J. Adams
1. Introduction: Intimate Relations for Earthly Survival
Alexa Dare and C. Vail Fletcher
Part I: Grief, Resilience, and Storytelling
2. Vigilant Mourning and the Future of Earthly Coexistence
Joshua Trey Barnett
3. Presence and Absence in the Watershed: Storytelling for the Symbiocene
Emily Plec
4. The Trouble with Resilience
Jessica Holmes
5. Solastalgia and Art Therapy in Climate Change
Chelsea Call
6. Living (in) Spider Webs: More-than-Human Intimacy in Installation Art by Tómas Saraceno
Katharina Alsen
Part II: Nonhuman Collaborators: Oysters, Birds, and Elephants
7. The Permeable Heart: Mindfulness in Animal-Human Communication
Peggy J. Bowers
8. Intimacy on the Half-Shell: Place, Oysters, and the Emerging Narrative of Virginia Aquaculture
Anne K. Armstrong, Richard C. Stedman, and Marianne E. Krasny
9. i am naiad: Becoming Benthic
laura c carlson
10. Ada Clapham Govan and "Birds I Know:" Ecologica
About the author
Laura Mattoon D'Amore is associate professor of cultural studies at Roger Williams University.Todd LeVasseur is visiting assistant professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston.Elizabeth Oriel received her PhD in global studies from the University of London. She is currently based at Aarhus University, Denmark.Mark Terry is contract faculty professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University.Mariko Oyama Thomas is an interdisciplinary scholar and holds a PhD in Environmental Communication from the University of New Mexico. She is also Co-Founder of the arts and ecology collaborative Submergence Collective and Teaching Faculty at Skagit Valley College.
Summary
In Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations, the contributors analyze how to live in connection with other beings in the face of crisis and to engage the concept of the Anthropocene from within.
