Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity

<p>The <em>Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity</em> brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. The editors introduce a broad, insightful assembly of original theory and research on planetary positionalities in flux in the Anthropocene – or what in this Handbook cultural ecologist David Abram presciently renames the Humilocene, a new “epoch of humility.” Forty international authors craft a kaleidoscopic lens, focusing on the following key interdisciplinary inquiries:</p><p><strong>Part I</strong> illuminates identity as always ecocultural, expanding dominant understandings of who we are and how our ways of identifying engender earthly outcomes.</p><p><strong>Part II</strong> examines ways ecocultural identities are fostered and how difference and spaces of interaction can be sources of environmental conviviality.</p><p><strong>Part III</strong> illustrates consequential ways the media sphere informs, challenges, and amplifies particular ecocultural identities.</p><p><strong>Part IV</strong> delves into the constitutive power of ecocultural identities and illuminates ways ecological forces shape the political sphere.</p><p><strong>Part V</strong> demonstrates multiple and unspooling ways in which ecocultural identities can evolve and transform to recall ways forward to reciprocal surviving and thriving.</p><p>The<em> </em><em>Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity</em> provides an essential resource for scholars, teachers, students, protectors, and practitioners interested in ecological and sociocultural regeneration.</p><p><strong>The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity has been awarded the 2020 Book Award from the National Communication Association's (USA) Environmental Communication Division.</strong></p> <p><strong>Ecocultural Identity: An Introduction</strong><em>Tema Milstein, José Castro-Sotomayor</em></p><p><em> </em><strong>Part I. Illuminating and Problematizing Ecocultural Identity</strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 1. Interbreathing Ecocultural Identity in the Humilocene</strong><i> </i></p><p>David Abram with Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor</p><p>Chapter 2. Ecocultural Identity Boundary Patrol and Transgression<i> </i></p><p>Tema Milstein</p><p>Chapter 3. Borderland Ecocultural Identities<i> </i></p><p>Carlos A. Tarin, Sarah D. Upton, Stacey K. Sowards</p><p>Chapter 4. Ecocultural Identities in Intercultural Encounters<i> </i></p><p>José Castro-Sotomayor</p><p>Chapter 5. Western Dominator Ecocultural Identity and the Denial of Animal Autonomy</p><p>Laura Bridgeman</p><p>Chapter 6. Critical Ecocultural Intersectionality<i> </i></p><p>Melissa Michelle Parks</p><p>Part II. Forming and Fostering Ecocultural Identity</p><p>Chapter 7. Intersectional Ecocultural Identity in Family Stories<i> </i></p><p>Mariko Thomas</p><p>Chapter 8. Interspecies Ecocultural Identities in Human-Elephant Cohabitation</p><p>Elizabeth Oriel, <i>Toni Frohoff</i></p><p>Chapter 9. Memory, Waterways, and Ecocultural Identity<i> </i></p><p>Jeffrey Alan Hoffmann </p><p>Chapter 10. "Progressive Ranching" and Wrangling the Wind as Ecocultural Identity Maintenance in the Anthropocene<i> </i></p><p>Casper G. Bendixsen, Trevor J. Durbin, Jakob Hanschu</p><p>Chapter 11. Constructing and Challenging Ecocultural Identity Boundaries among Sportsmen </p><p>Jessica Love-Nichols</p><p>Chapter 12. The Reworking of Evangelical Christian Ecocultural Identity in the Creation Care Movement<i> </i></p><p>Emma Frances Bloomfield</p><p>Chapter 13. Navigating Ecocultural Indigenous Identity Affinity and Appropriation</p><p>Charles Carlin</p><p>Part III. Mediating Ecocultural Identity</p><p>Chapter 14. Identifying with Antarctica in the Ecocultural Imaginary<i> </i></p><p>Hanne Nielsen</p><p>Chapter 15. Illegal Mining, Identity, and the Politics of Ecocultural Voice in Ghana<i> </i></p><p>Eric Karikari, <i>José Castro-Sotomayor</i>, <i>Godfried Asante</i></p><p>Chapter 16. Conservation Hero and Climate Villain Binary Identities of Swedish Farmers<i> </i></p><p>Lars Hallgren<b>, </b><i>Hanna Ljunggren Bergeå</i>, <i>Helena Nordström Källström</i></p><p>Chapter 17. Modeling Watershed Ecocultural Identification and Subjectivity in the United States.</p><p>Jeremy Trombley</p><p>Part IV. Politicizing Ecocultural Identity</p><p>Chapter 18. Induced Seismicity, Quotidian Disruption, and Challenges to Extractivist Ecocultural Identity<i> </i></p><p>Dakota K. T. Raynes, Tamara L. Mix</p><p>Chapter 19. Political Identity as Ecocultural Survival Strategy<i> </i></p><p>John Carr, <i>Tema Milstein</i></p><p>Chapter 20. The Making of Fluid Ecocultural Identities in Urban India<i> </i></p><p>Shilpa Dahake</p><p>Chapter 21. Competing Models of Ecocultural Belonging in Highland Ecuador<i> </i></p><p>Joe Quick, <i>James T. Spartz</i></p><p>Chapter 22. Scapegoating Identities in the Anthropocene<i> </i></p><p>Leonie Tuitjer</p><p>Part V. Transforming Ecocultural Identity</p><p>Chapter 23. A Queer Ecological Reading of Ecocultural Identity in Contemporary Mexico</p><p>Gabriela Méndez Cota</p><p>Chapter 24. Wildtending, Settler Colonialism, and Ecocultural Identities in Environmental Futures</p><p>Bruno Seraphin</p><p>Chapter 25. Toward a Grammar of Ecocultural Identity</p><p>Arran Stibbe</p><p>Chapter 26. Perceiving Ecocultural Identities as Human Animal Earthlings</p><p>Carrie P. Freeman</p><p>Chapter 27. Fostering Children’s Ecocultural Identities within Ecoresiliency</p><p>Shannon Audley, Ninian R. Stein, Julia L. Ginsburg</p><p>Chapter 28. Empathetic Ecocultural Positionality and the Forest Other in Tasmanian Forestry Conflicts<i> </i></p><p>Rebecca Banham</p><p>Afterword. Surviving and Thriving: The Ecocultural Identity Invitation</p><p>Tema Milstein, José Castro-Sotomayor</p><p>Index</p>