Handbook

This course explores communicative ways humans produce and transform environmental and cultural knowledges and relations. You will focus on local and global manifestations of discourses – or shared ways of making meaning, framing issues, and forming knowledge – and examine their interrelated environmental and sociocultural reverberations at everyday and structural scales. The course situates “the environment” both as actively socially constructed through communication and as deeply materially experienced through more-than-human relations. In gaining a deeper understanding of the roles of communication, or discourse, in shaping contemporary environmental orientations, you will also focus on restorative communicative ways forward.