Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: (Re)Making Worlds with Sea Turtles
Vignette: 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 Analysis
References
Index
