Title

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

Authors

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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