Environmental Communication and Community
As society has become increasingly aware of environmental issues, the challenge of structuring public participation opportunities that strengthen democracy, while promoting more sustainable communities has become crucial for many natural resource agencies, industries, interest groups and publics. The processes of negotiating between the often disparate values held by these diverse groups, and formulating and implementing policies that enable people to fulfil goals associated with these values, can strengthen communities as well as tear them apart.
This book provides a critical examination of the role communication plays in social transition, through both construction and destruction of community. The authors examine the processes and practices put in play when people who may or may not have previously seen themselves as interconnected, communicate with each other, often in situations where they are competing for the same resources. Drawing upon a diverse selection of case-studies on the American, Asian and European continents, the chapters chart a range of approaches to environmental communication, including symbolic construction, modes of organizing and agonistic politics of communication.
This volume will be of great interest to researchers, teachers and practitioners of environmental communication, environmental conflict, community development and natural resource management.
Tarla Rai Peterson is a professor in the Department of Communication and Coordinator of RARE Mozambique at the University of Texas, El Paso, USA.
Hanna Ljunggren Berge is a researcher at the Division of Environmental Communication, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), USA.
Kaisa Raitio is an associate professor at the Division of Environmental Communication, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Environmental Communication and Community
Constructive and destructive dynamics of social transformation
Edited by Tarla Rai Peterson, Hanna Ljunggren Berge,
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker and Kaisa Raitio
Environmental Communication and Community
Constructive and destructive
dynamics of social transformation
Tarla Rai Peterson,
Hanna Ljunggren Berge,
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker
and Kaisa Raitio
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Names: Peterson, Tarla Rai, editor.
Title: Environmental communication and community: constructive and destructive dynamics of social transformation / edited by Tarla Rai Peterson, Hanna Ljunggren Bergea, Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker and Kaisa Raitio.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015044169| ISBN 9781138913868 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315691176 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Communication in the environmental sciencesCase studies. | Environmental managementSocial aspectsCase studies. | EnvironmentalismSocial aspectsCase studies.
Classification: LCC GE25. E577 2016 | DDC 363.7dc23
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ISBN: 978-1-138-91386-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-69117-6 (ebk)
Typeset in Bembo
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear
To Nadarajah Sriskandarajah
Justice crusader
While attentive to power
Maintaining full hope
Contents
PART I
Introduction and conceptual framing for community
constructivity and deconstructivity
ANDREA M. FELDPAUSCH- PARKER AND TARLA RAI PETERSON
LARS HALLGREN
PART II
Constructing and deconstructing community
Symbolic construction instantiating community through
language and other symbols
DEBORAH COX CALLISTER
DANIELLE ENDRES, BRIAN COZEN, MEGAN OBYRNE AND ANDREA M. FELDPAUSCH- PARKER
LEIGH BERNACCHI AND TARLA RAI PETERSON
Modes of organizing instantiating community through
structural means
PAULAMI BANERJEE
ANDREA M. FELDPAUSCH-PARKER, ISRAEL D. PARKER, HILARY SWARTWOOD, M. NILS PETERSON AND MARKUS J. PETERSON
HANS PETER HANSEN AND TARLA RAI PETERSON
Agonistic politics instantiating community through dissent and
non-traditional practice
ANN MARIE TODD
ELIN NGMAN, ARJEN E. BUIJS, IRMA ARTS, HANNA LJUNGGREN BERGE AND GERARD VERSCHOOR
MICHAEL J. LILES, EDUARDO ALTAMIRANO, VELKISS GADEA, SOFIA CHAVARRA, INGRID YAEZ, DAVID MELERO, JOS URTEAGA AND ALEXANDER R. GAOS
KAISA RAITIO
LEAH SPRAIN, BRION VAN OVER AND ERIC L. MORGAN
PART III
Conclusion and summary
TARLA RAI PETERSON, HANNA LJUNGGREN BERGE, ANDREA M. FELDPAUSCH- PARKER AND KAISA RAITIO