Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication

Routledge International Handbooks

by Scott Slovic (editor), Swarnalatha Rangarajan (Editor), Vidya Sarveswaran (Editor)

Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook aims to reinforce the common concerns and methodologies of the sibling disciplines.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication charts the history of the relationship between ecocriticism and environmental communication studies, while also highlighting key new paradigms in information studies, diverse examples of practical applications of environmental communication and textual analysis, and the patterns and challenges of environmental communication in non-Western societies. Contributors to this book include literary, film and religious studies scholars, communication studies specialists, environmental historians, practicing journalists, art critics, linguists, ethnographers, sociologists, literary theorists, and others, but all focus their discussions on key issues in textual representations of human–nature relationships and on the challenges and possibilities of environmental communication. The handbook is designed to map existing trends in both ecocriticism and environmental communication and to predict future directions.

This handbook will be an essential reference for teachers, students, and practitioners of environmental literature, film, journalism, communication, and rhetoric, and well as the broader meta-discipline of environmental humanities.

434 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2019

Reviews

[Jessica DeWitt · Rating 3 out of 5]

I initially reached for this volume because I was writing a chapter for an upcoming Routledge Handbook. Like all of these Routledge volumes, this is a dense collection that is likely going to attract only specialized, professional readers. I found some sections and chapters more useful and engaging than others, but overall I found that the volume lacked a clear argument. Many of the chapters seemed to stand alone and didn't link back to a larger, overarching argument. Pick this one up for the chapters that you think will be useful to you; I don't necessarily recommend reading it cover-to-cover, like I did.