Chapter Three: From Dualisms to Dialogism: Hybridity in Discourse About the Natural World

Marafiote, Tracy; Plec, Emily

doi:10.1207/s15567362ecy0301_3

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“…This paper follows an analytical framework model suggested by Herndl and Brown (1996) [18] that categorizes environmental discourse into three groups: Regulatory discourse that views nature as a resource to be managed for social welfare (ethnocentric), scientific discourse that views nature as an object for research (anthropocentric), and poetic discourse that views nature as a spiritual entity with intrinsic moral value (ecocentric). This "triad of centrism," as Marafiote and Plec (2006) [19] termed it, has been applied in research papers on environmental discourse analysis [19][20][21]. This model was chosen because it provides a useful framework to capture and classify the broad spectrum of biodiversity discourses.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Toward a More Expansive Discourse in a Changing World: An Analysis of Political Leaders’ Speeches on Biodiversity

Kang

Dai

2021

Sustainability

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Speeches delivered in the Conference of the Parties (COPs) to the Convention on Biological Diversity represent leading discourses about biodiversity conservation. The discourse shared by high-level politicians is especially influential in the financing and decision-making process of global biodiversity governance. However, the speeches given in the COPs have not been the subject of systematic analyses until now. This study analyzes the host countries’ speeches given at the six most recent COPs and investigates which discourses have been expressed in the speeches. The regulatory discourse that views nature as a resource was found to be the dominant discourse, while other discourses that view nature as a scientific object or a spiritual entity were represented only marginally. As the need for a transformational policy for biodiversity conservation is growing amid a global pandemic, it is essential to deepen our understanding of the dynamics and complexity of nature and reflect it in the policy process. This study suggests that more balanced discourse on biodiversity may earn broader audiences’ consensus on biodiversity conservation.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a More Expansive Discourse in a Changing World: An Analysis of Political Leaders’ Speeches on Biodiversity

Kang

Dai

2021

Sustainability

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“…Environmental communication scholars expand such questioning to investigate constructions of humanature relations, identifying dialectical pulls within environmental discourses, such as anthropocentric (exclusive human-centered) versus ecocentric (inclusive nature-centered) framings. Marafiote and Plec (2006) illustrate a heteroglossic feature of environmental discourses, arguing that contrasting ideologies can be found within individuals' single utterances.…”

Section: Ecocultural Dialecticsmentioning

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Gynocentric Greenwashing: The Discursive Gendering of Nature

Milstein

Dickinson

2012

Communication, Culture & Critique

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This study complicates the gendering of ''mother nature,'' pointing to an underlying everyday discursive formation of nature that is decidedly androcentric. The dialectic at play, a favorably forefronted gynocentric pole masking a dominant androcentric pole, problematizes past understandings of binaries and offers new ways to understand humanature. Building upon the burgeoning study of critical ecocultural dialectics, we empirically investigate nature framings in North American ocean and forest contexts. We suggest that a gynocentric greenwashing exists in discourses about ''the environment,'' in which communal, embodied human orientations with nature are favorably forefronted, but individuating, frontal orientations are overwhelmingly practiced. As such, everyday ecologically exultant discourses may obscure deeply embedded exploitive orientations that centrally regulate our perceptions of, and interactions with, nature.

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“…Environmental ideologies are often convoluted, contradictory, and/or hybrid, meaning multiple ideologies that contradict one another can be represented in the same discourse, even in the same utterance (Marafiote & Plec, 2006).…”

Section: Environmental Communicationmentioning

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“Organic is More of an American Term … We Are Traditional Farmers”: Discourses of Place-based Organic Farming, Community, Heritage, and Sustainability

Hoffmann

2018

Environmental Communication

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The following study looks at how traditional, organic, cooperative farmers who are starting a new farming cooperative in the Albuquerque South Valley in New Mexico communicate about their farming as a set of (sustainable) cultural practices. The study draws on environmental communication theories, the theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning, and Actor Network Theory to construct a communication-based framework through which to view farmers' stories about sustainability and visions for the future of their farming cooperative. This framework is productive, showing how some Nuevo Mexicano farmers (and others) orient toward farming, sustenance, and human-nature relationships through community, family, heritage, education, and resistance to agribusiness models, among other orientations. Finally, the study looks at how these farmers orient toward sustainability, and how they see their work as sustainable practice. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER

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Chapter Three: From Dualisms to Dialogism: Hybridity in Discourse About the Natural World

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Toward a More Expansive Discourse in a Changing World: An Analysis of Political Leaders’ Speeches on Biodiversity

Toward a More Expansive Discourse in a Changing World: An Analysis of Political Leaders’ Speeches on Biodiversity

Gynocentric Greenwashing: The Discursive Gendering of Nature

“Organic is More of an American Term … We Are Traditional Farmers”: Discourses of Place-based Organic Farming, Community, Heritage, and Sustainability

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