1st Edition

Eco-Thoughts Conversations with a Polluted Mind

By Anna Lisa Tota Copyright 2025
216 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

What if the pollution of the world did not only concern the environment in which we live, but also the flow of our thoughts in every moment of everyday life? What if those thoughts, invasive like locusts, could transform and become "eco-thoughts" that make us and others feel good? Ecology concerns us from the inside, passes through us, and literally shapes us: "what is inside is outside". This... Read more

1. Architectures of the Mind and Mindscapes

2. Forms of Symbolic Pollution

3. Visual Pollution 

4. Soundscapes and the Ecology of Sounds

5. The Ecological Mind

6. Inter-Speciesism, Anti-Speciesism and Other Beliefs 

Postscript: En route. Diary of everyday happiness

Biography

Anna Lisa Tota is Vice-Rector of the University Roma Tre in Rome, Italy, and Full Professor of Sociology of Communication and Culture at the Department of Philosophy, Communication, and Performing Arts in the same university. Among her publications are the Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies (edited with Trever Hagen, 2016) and Eco-Words: The Ecology of Conversation (2024).