Voice and Environmental Communication

1. Introduction: Voice and the Environment—Critical Perspectives
Jennifer Peeples, Stephen Depoe

Section I. Voice and Environmental Advocacy

2. Corporate Ventriloquism: Corporate Advocacy, the Coal Industry, and the Appropriation of Voice
Peter K. Bsumek, Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, Jennifer Peeples

3. Defending the Fort: Michael Crichton, Pulp Fiction, and Green Conspiracy
Patrick Belanger

4. Invoking the Ecological Indian: Rhetoric, Culture, and the Environment
Casey R. Schmitt

5. Sustainable Advocacy: Voice for and before an Intergenerational Audience
Jessica M. Prody, Brandon Inabinet

6. Response Essay: The (Im)possibility of Voice in Environmental Advocacy
Danielle Endres

Section II. Voice and Consumption

7. Voices of Organic Consumption: Understanding Organic Consumption as Political Action
Leah Sprain

8. Vote with Your Fork: The Performance of Environmental Voice at the Farmers’ Market
Benjamin Garner

9. Response Essay: Thinking through Issues of Voice and Consumption
Laura Lindenfeld

Section III. Listening to Nonhuman Voices

10. The Language That All Things Speak: Thoreau and the Voice of Nature
William Homestead

11. The Ethics of Listening in the Wilderness Writings of Sigurd F. Olson
David A. Tschida

12. Listening to the Natural World: Ecopsychology of Listening from a Hawai’ian Spiritual Perspective
Yukari Kunisue

13. Response Essay: Environmental Voices Including Dialogue with Nature, within and beyond Language
Donal Carbaugh

14. Coda: Food, Future, Zombies
Eric King Watts

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Media and Communication, Environmental Sociology, Media Studies, Environment, general