Inventing Ecosystems

Madison P. Jones is an associate professor of science communication with a dual appointment in the Departments of Professional/Public Writing and Natural Resources Science at the University of Rhode Island, where he is a Senior Fellow at the Coastal Institute, directs the Digital Writing Environments, Location, and Localization (DWELL) Lab, and coordinates the Science Writing & Rhetoric graduate certificate program. He co-edited Rhetorical Ecologies (NCTE, 2024) and Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Bloomsbury, 2015). His articles have appeared in journals such as Kairos, Rhetoric Review, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

• 1. Introduction: Ecology, Rhetoric, and Complex Systems.- 2. Energy and Rhetoric in the “Silver Springs Study”.- 3. Proving Grounds: Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands and Puerto Rico.- 4. Ecology Out of Place: Ecotopes and the Problem of Scale.- 5. Ecology Out of Time: Kairos and the Problem of Time.- 6. Field Histories: Macroscopic Rhetoric and the Mesocosm.- 7. The DWELL Lab: Applying Lessons Learned.