Communicating a "New" Environmental Vernacular: A Sense of Relations-in-Place

    Authors

    T. Milstein; C. Anguiano; J. Sandoval; Y. W. Chen;E. Dickinson

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Commun. Monogr.

    Keywords

    Environmental Communication; Ecocultural Premise; Resolana; Relations-in-Place; Sense of Self-in-Place; Nature-Culture Binary; Environmental Meanings; Hispanic; Latino/a; Chicano/a; New Mexico; US; Southwest; NORTHERN NEW-MEXICO; JUSTICE; HEALTH; Communication

    Abstract

    This study focuses on communication as a lens and tool for reinvigorating and empowering marginalized cultural environmental relations. We use a community-based cultural approach to identify a core Hispanic premise of a sense of relations-in-place. This premise constitutes nature as a socially integrated space that provides the grounding for human relations, and differs from dominant Western discourses that constitute nature as an entity separate from humans. The study's interpretation of a more integrated orientation to environment has the potential to inform wider alternative ecocultural discourses and applications that are more inclusive, and perhaps more sustainable.

    Journal Title

    Communication Monographs

    Volume

    78

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    486

    Last Page

    510

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000299277500004

    ISSN

    0363-7751

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