Title

Communicating A "New" Environmental Vernacular: A Sense Of Relations-In-Place

Keywords

Chicano/a; Ecocultural premise; Environmental communication; Environmental meanings; Hispanic; Latino/a; Nature-culture binary; New mexico; Relationsin- place; Resolana; Sense of self-in-place; Us southwest

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. © 2011 National Communication Association.

Publication Date

12-1-2011

Publication Title

Communication Monographs

Volume

78

Issue

4

Number of Pages

486-510

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2011.618139

Socpus ID

84862907475 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84862907475

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