“…In culturally contextualizing the largely environmental communication notion of a sense of self-in-place, we also speak to extant comparative cultural studies in which discourse is understood as a complex of practices and premises relating people to nature and place (Basso, 1992(Basso, , 1996Carbaugh, 1999;Milstein, 2008Milstein, , 2011Morgan, 2002Morgan, , 2003. Drawing attention to the importance of culture in our study allowed us to newly apply and further develop this notion of discourse and, in doing so, highlight a culturally distinctive environmental paradigm that constitutes a unitary blending of close social relations and environmental relations.…”