1st Edition
Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction: Framing Sustainability
Maida Kosatica and Sean P. Smith
1. Visual Essay: “Banal Sustainability”
Sean P. Smith
PART I: Reframing Sustainability in a Colonial World
2. Rethinking Sustainability through Indigenous Language Futures
Bernard C. Perley and Maliseet text by Henrietta Black
3. Chronotopes of Sustainability and the Coloniality of Corporate Initiatives
Jessica Pouchet
4. Climate Crisis and Animal Exploitation: Historical Materialism and the Reformulation of Industrial Discourses
Diego L. Forte
PART II: The Semiotics of Sustainability
5. The Semiotics of the “Unfinished”: The Lost Highway and Other Signifiers of Unsustainable Development
Anders Björkvall and Arlene Archer
6. Creating Shared Value: A Social Semiotic Analysis of ESG Discourse on Social Media
Esterina Nervino, Karen C. K. Choi, and Jiaying Wang
7. Signs of Sustainability? The Semiotic Dimension of Urban Plants
Laura Imhoff
PART III: Communicating Sustainability in Everyday Life
8. Responding to Sustainable Lifestyle Discourses in Climate Conversations
Julia C. Fine
9. A Discourse of Sustainable Architecture in the Studio: When the Decoupling of Communication, Intentions, and Outcomes Presents Aspirations for Alternative Futures
Sherif Goubran
10. Reclaiming Sustainability for the Anthropocene
Gavin Lamb
PART IV: Sustainability Communication in the Arts
11. "Sustainability" in the Arts and Culture Sector: A Discourse Analytic Appreciative Inquiry
Kate Power
12. Climate in the Club: Conveying Sustainable Futures through Eco Grime and Solarpunk Music
Morgan Sleeper and Jessica Love-Nichols
13. Staying Away from Cthulhu Rather than Embracing the Cthulhucene: Human and Non-Human Relations in Netflix’s The Sea Beast
Emelie Fälton and Polina Ignatova
14. Epilogue: Seeing Through Sustainability and the Wasteful Rhetorics of (Un)Knowing
Crispin Thurlow
Index
Biography
Maida Kosatica is Professor of Urban Semiotics and Semantics in the Department of Anglophone Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research interests include semiotic landscapes, multimodal critical discourse analysis, environmental communication and displacement, and discourses on ecosystem services.
Sean P. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His research examines how discourse and (social) media shape development and practice within the contexts of the environment and tourism, informed by field research in Myanmar (Burma) and the Arabian Gulf.
