Communicating in the Anthropocene

Vail Fletcher is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Portland and co-director of the Gender and Women’s Studies program. Alexa Dare is associate professor of communication at the University of Portland where she also directs the social justice minor

• Table of ContentsForeword: Undisciplined StoriesAcknowledgmentsCarol J. Adams 1. Introduction: Intimate Relations for Earthly SurvivalAlexa Dare and C. Vail Fletcher Part I: Grief, Resilience, and Storytelling2. Vigilant Mourning and the Future of Earthly CoexistenceJoshua Trey Barnett3. Presence and Absence in the Watershed: Storytelling for the SymbioceneEmily Plec4. The Trouble with ResilienceJessica Holmes5. Solastalgia and Art Therapy in Climate ChangeChelsea Call6. Living (in) Spider Webs: More-than-Human Intimacy in Installation Art by Tómas SaracenoKatharina AlsenPart II: Nonhuman Collaborators: Oysters, Birds, and Elephants 7. The Permeable Heart: Mindfulness in Animal-Human CommunicationPeggy J. Bowers8. Intimacy on the Half-Shell: Place, Oysters, and the Emerging Narrative of Virginia AquacultureAnne K. Armstrong, Richard C. Stedman, and Marianne E. Krasny9. i am naiad: Becoming Benthiclaura c carlson10. Ada Clapham Govan and “Birds I Know:” Ecologica