Framing sustainability in language and communication / edited by Maida Kosatica and Sean P. Smith.
| Other author | Kosatica, Maida. |
| Other author | Smith, Sean P. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2025. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge research in language and communication |
| Contents | Framing sustainability / Maida Kosatica & Sean P. Smith -- Visual essay : "banal sustainability" / Sean P. Smith -- Section I. Reframing sustainability in a colonial world -- Rethinking sustainability through indigenous language futures / Bernard C. Perley -- Chronotopes of sustainability and the coloniality of corporate initiatives / Jessica Pouchet -- Climate crisis and animal exploitation : historical materialism and the reformulation of industrial discourses / Diego L. Forte -- Section II. The semiotics of sustainability -- The semiotics of "the unfinished" : the lost highway and other signifiers of unsustainable development / Anders Bj©œrkvall & Arlene Archer -- Creating shared value : a social semiotic analysis of ESG discourse on social media / Esterina Nervino, Karen C.K. Choi & Jiaying Wang -- More than a green embellishment? : a social-semiotic approach to urban plants / Laura Imhoff -- Section III. Communicating sustainability in everyday life -- Sustainable architecture studio discourse : when the decoupling of communication, intentions, and outcomes presents aspirations for alternative futures / Julia Coombs Fine -- Reclaiming sustainability for the anthropocene / Gavin Lamb -- Section IV. Sustainability communication in the arts -- 'Sustainability' in the arts and culture sector : a discourse analytic appreciative inquiry / Kate Power -- Climate in the club : conveying sustainable futures through eco grime and solarpunk music / Morgan Sleeper & Jessica Love-Nichols -- Staying away from Cthulhu rather than embracing the Cthulhucene : human and non human relations in Netflix's The sea beast / Emelie F©Þlton & Polina Ignatova -- Seeing through sustainability and the wasteful rhetorics of (un)knowing / Crispin Thurlow. |
| Abstract | "This collection brings together established and emerging scholars for a critical framing of sustainability through the lens of language and communication, social semiotics, and media studies. The volume underscores the importance of re-envisioning sustainability around not only climate change and biodiversity loss but in broader systems of ecological, social, and economic imbalances on a global scale. The book begins with a visual essay which provides a semiotic foundation for understandings of sustainability across disciplinary approaches in the chapters that follow. Subsequent chapters are organized around four thematic sections: reframing sustainability in a colonial world; the semiotics of sustainability; communicating sustainability in everyday life; and communicating sustainability in arts and media. A closing commentary by Crispin Thurlow offers critical reflections on sustainability within language and communication research and beyond. This book will be of interest to scholars addressing sustainability across diverse disciplines, including language and communication, social semiotics, linguistic anthropology, environmental communication, media studies, and development studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024045231 |
| ISBN | 9781032719160 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032719207 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |