This book explores how language and communication shape the increasingly entangled lives of people and sea turtles at the nexus of sea turtle conservation and ecotourism. Here, new ecocultural identities are taking shape as people strive to make sense of their shifting multispecies landscape, and as sea turtles gradually reclaim beaches after decades of absence. The book offers researchers in ecolinguistics and related ecologically engaged fields in discourse analysis an integrative theoretical and methodological approach to empirically investigate the human and ‘more-than-human’ discourses and practices shaping problematic human-wildlife interaction. Containing short vignettes in each chapter covering the biology and behaviours of sea turtles, this book suggests how discourse analysts might contribute to a ‘life-sustaining multispecies ethics’ in an uncertain socio-ecological time increasingly being referred to as the Anthropocene.
Gavin Lamb is Associate Professor in English Language in the Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication at NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway.
List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: (Re)Making Worlds with Sea TurtlesVignette: Sensing & Communicating 1. Threatened Sea Turtles: The Nexus of Sea Turtle Ecotourism and Conservation in Hawai‘i Vignette: Nesting 2. Spectacular Sea Turtles: Circulating Discourses of Sea Turtle Ecotourism Vignette: Basking 3. Protected Sea Turtles: Assembling Sea Turtle Conservation through Community Activism Vignette: Foraging 4. Charismatic Sea Turtles: Composing Ecocultural Identities with Sea Turtles Vignette: Homing 5. Flourishing Sea Turtles: Multiplying Perspectives and Local Community Eco-Politics Vignette: Adapting Conclusion: Towards a Multispecies Discourse AnalysisReferencesIndex
In what is likely to become a touchstone in posthuman perspectives on language, this book will be of interest to any scholars seeking to understand landscapes beyond human sign-making.
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