Ecocultural Communication

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Explores how communication constructs and shapes human relationships with the environment. Drawing from environmental and critical cultural communication scholarship, we will examine international, regional, and local eco-discourses in order to better understand ways that human-nature relations are both culturally-constructed and materially experienced. Ultimately, our collaborative explorations will help us better understand how: A) cultural and communication processes inform, construct, and produce human perceptions of and actions toward/within nature; and B) ecocultural communication research can be used to deconstruct and transform dominant Western human perceptions of and behaviors toward nature.