The discursive construction of anthropocentrism

Environmental Ethics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-201

  Turner, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

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EID: 67650726733     PISSN: 01634275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics200931219     Document Type: Article

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1. Authors who have made similar arguments include David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World (New York: Pantheon Books, 1996);
2. J. Peter Brosius, "Analyses and Interventions: Anthropological Engagements with Environmentalism", Current Anthropology 40, no. 3 (1999):277-309
3. Donal Carbaugh, "Communication and Cultural Interpretation", Quarterly Journal of Speech 77, no. 3 (1991):336-42
4. William Cronon, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (New York: Norton, 1996);
5. Joan Dunayer, Animal Equality: Language and Liberation (Derwood, Md.: Ryce, 2001);
6. Paul Ehrlich and Ann Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (Washington, D. C.: Island Press, 1996);
7. Cathy Glenn, "Constructing Consumables and Consent: A Critical Analysis of Factory Farm Industry Discourse", Journal of Communication Inquiry 28, no. 1 (2004):63-81
8. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy (New York: HarperCollins, 2004);
9. Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1980);
10. Peter Mühlhäusler, Language of Environment, Environment of Language: A Course in Ecolinguistics (London: Battlebridge, 2003).
11. For further information on discourse analysis and its use in various fields of study, see such journals as Discourse Studies, Critical Discourse Studies, and Discourse and Society. Also see Teun A. van Dijk, Discourse and Power (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
12. Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981);
13. Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, ed. and trans. Caryl Emerson (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984);
14. Pierre Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991);
15. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990);
16. Norman Fairclough, Language and Power (New York: Longman, 1989);
17. Michael Foucault, The Archeology of Knowledge, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Pantheon, 1972);
18. van Dijk, Discourse and Power, Ruth Wodak and Michal Krzyzanowski, eds. Qualitative Discourse Analysis for the Social Sciences (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008).
19. Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power, p. 64.
20. Ibid., p. 82.
21. Fairclough, Language and Power, p. 33.
22. Ibid., pp. 163-64.
23. Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power, p. 37.
24. van Dijk, Discourse and Power, p. 24.
25. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 5.
26. Ibid.
27. PierreBourdieu, Logic of Practice, trans. RcihardNice (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992);
28. Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power; Saroj Chawla, "Linguistic and Philosophical Roots of Our Environmental Crisis", Environmental Ethics 13, no. 3 (1991):253-62;
29. Norman Fairclough, Discourse and Social Change (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992);
30. Fairclough, Language and Power; Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: Vol. 1: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Pantheon, 1978);
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32. George Lakoff and Mark Turner, More than Cool Reason (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989);
33. Teun A. van Dijk, "Discourse, Knowledge and Ideology: Reformulating Old Questions", LAUD Series A: General and Theoretical Papers, Paper No. 546, Essen, 2002;
34. Benjamin L. Whorf, Language, Thought, and Reality (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1956).
35. Brosius, "Analyses and Interventions", p. 278.
36. For extensive reviews and analyses, see Alwin Fill and Peter Muhlhausler, eds., The Ecolinguistics Reader (New York: Continuum, 2006);
37. Mühlhäusler, Language of Environment, Environment of Language; Peter Mühlhäusler and Adrian Peace, "Environmental Discourses", Annual Review of Anthropology 35 (2006):457-79.
38. Ann C. Bell and Constance L. Russell, "Beyond Human, Beyond Words: Anthropocentrism, Critical Pedagogy, and the Poststructuralist Turn", Canadian Journal of Education 25, no. 3 (2000):194.
39. Mühlhäusler, Language of Environment, Environment of Language, p. 22.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid., p. 25.
43. Ibid., pp. 47-49.
44. Ibid., p. 48.
45. Ibid., p. 137.
46. Helen Forsey, "Backintothe Quagmire: Linking Patriarchy and Planetary Destruction", Alternatives 19, no. 3 (1993):47-49;
47. Merchant, The Death of Nature; Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism (Halifax, Canada: Femwood, 1993);
48. Val Plumwood, "Ecofeminism: An Overview and Discussion of Positions", Australian Journal of Philosophy 64 (1986):120-58.
49. Muhlhausler, Language of Environment, Environment of Language, p. 40.
50. For examples of these discussions, see Kristine Macomber, Christine Mallinson, and Elizabeth K. Seale, '"Katrina that Bitch!' Hegemonic Representations of Women's Sexuality on Hurricane Katrina SouvenirT- Shirts", Journal of Popular Culture, forthcommg; Julia Penelope, Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Father's Tongues (New York: Pergamon Press, 1980);
51. Suzanne Romaine, "Gender, Grammar and the Space in between", in Communicating Gender in Context, eds. Helga Kotthoff and Ruth Wodak (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1997), pp. 51-76;
52. Muriel R. Schultz, "The Semantic Derogation of Woman", in Language and Sex: Difference and Dominance, ed. Barrie Thorne and Nancy Henley (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1975), pp. 64-75;
53. Laurel A. Sutton, "Bitches and Skankly Hobags: The Place of Women in Contemporary Slang", in Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, ed. Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz (New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 279-96.
54. Mühlhäusler, Language of Environment, Environment of Language, p. 50.
55. Quoted in Mühlhäusler, Language of Environment, Environment of Language, p. 52.
56. Glenn, "Constructing Consumables and Consent", p. 65.
57. Cronon, Uncommon Ground.
58. Glenn, "Constructing Consumables and Consent", p. 68.
59. Quoted in Glenn, "Constructing Consumables and Consent", p. 69.
60. Glenn, "Constructing Consumables and Consent", p. 69.
61. Quoted in Glenn, "Constructing Consumables and Consent", pp. 69-70.
62. Glenn, "Constructing Consumables and Consent", pp. 70-71.
63. Carbaugh, "Communication and Cultural Interpretation"; Dunayer, Animal Equality; Ehrlich and Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason; Kennedy, Crimes Against Nature.
64. Bell and Russell, "Beyond Human, Beyond Words", p. 193.
65. Chawla, "Linguistic and Philosophical Roots of Our Environmental Crisis."
66. Roslyn Frank, "Shifting Identities: The Metaphorics of Nature-Culture Dualism in Western and Basque Models of Self", Das online-Journal metaphorik.de (2003):66-96 (http://www.metaphorik. de/04/frank.pdf);
67. Nolan P. Jacobson, The Heart of Buddhist Philosophy (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University, 1988).
68. Andrew Goatly, "Green Grammar and Grammatical Metaphor, or Language and Myth of Power, or Metaphors We Die By", in The Ecolinguistics Reader, ed. Alwin Fill and Peter Miihlhausler (New York: Continuum, 2001), pp. 537-60.
69. Marianne Mithun, "The Value of Linguistic Diversity: Viewing Other Worlds through North American Indian Languages", in A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, ed. Alessandro Duranti (Maiden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2006), p. 125.
70. Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous, p. 151.
71. Ibid., pp. 155-59.
72. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith (London: Routledge and Hegan Paul, 1962).
73. Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction of Phenomenology, trans. Dorion Cairns (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1960).
74. Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous, p. 22.
75. Ibid., pp. 116-17.
76. Ibid., pp. 95-103.
77. Ibid., p. 117.
78. Ibid., p. 109.
79. Ibid., p. 39.
80. Wendell Berry, Another Turn of the Crank (Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint, 1995);
81. Cronon, Uncommon Ground; Ehrlich and Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason; Kennedy, Crimes against Nature; David Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect (Washington, D. C.: Island Press, 1994);
82. Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005).
83. For online access to John Muir's writings, see "John Muir Writings", Yosemite Online (http://www.yoseraite.ca.us/john-muir- writings).
84. James Lovelock, "Gaia: The World as Living Organism", New Scientist December 18 (1986):25-28.
85. Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984);
86. Edward O. Wilson, "Biophilia and the Conservation Ethic", in The Biophilia Hypothesis, ed. S. R. Kellert and E. O. Wilson (Washington, D. C.: Island Press, 1993), pp. 31-41.
87. Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous; Fritjof Capra, The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living (New York: Anchor Books, 2004);
88. Steve Hinchliffe. "Inhabiting: Landscapes and Natures", in The Handbook of Cultural Geography, ed. Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Nigel Thrift, and Steve Pile (Londong: Sage Publications, 2002);
89. Forsey, "Back into the Quagmire"; Plumwood, "Ecofeminism"; Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, ed., Ecological Literacy: Landmarks in Literary Ecology (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996);
90. N. Katherine Hayles, "Searching for Common Ground", in Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction. ed. M. Soulé and G. Lease (Washington, D. C.: Island Press, 1995), pp. 47-63;
91. Arne Naess, "The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement", Inquiry 16 (1973):95-100;
92. Dave Foreman, Ecodefence: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching (Chico, Calif.: Abbzug Press, 1993).
93. New London Group, "A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures", Harvard Education Review 66, no. 1 (1996):60-92.
94. Bell and Russell, "Beyond Human, Beyond Words", p. 191.
95. Dunayer, Animal Equality; Glenn, "Constructing Consumables and Consent."
96. Ibid., p. 77.
97. Mühlhäusler and Peace, "Environmental Discourses", pp. 462-72.
98. Mühlhäusler, Language of Environment, Environment of Language, p. 116.
99. For further discussion of greenwashing, see Mühlhäusler and Peace, "Environmental Discourses", and Mühlhäusler, Language of Environment, Environment of Language.
100. Traci Warkentin, "It's Not Just What You Say, but How You Say It: An Exploration of the Moral Dimensions of Metaphor and the Phenomenology of Narrative", Canadian Journal of Environmental Education 7, no. 2 (2002):241.
101. Ibid., p. 250.
102. Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous; Lovelock, "Gaia: The World as Living Organism."
103. Goatly, "Green Grammar and Grammatical Metaphor", p. 213.
104. Berry, Another Turn of the Crank, p. 75.
105. Quoted in William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (New York: North Point Press, 2002), inside title page.
106. Evan Almighty (Universal Pictures, 2007).
107. David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson, Wisdom of the Elders: Honoring Sacred Native Visions of Nature (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), p. 30.
108. Ibid., pp. 40-43.
109. Peter Singer, Animal Liberation (New York: Ecco, 2002).
110. Ibid., p. 9.
111. Evan Thompson, "Empathy and Consciousness", Journal of Consciousness Studies 8, no. 5-7 (2001):2.
112. Marc Bekoff, "Minding Animals, Minding Earth: Old Brains, New Bottlenecks", Zygon 38, no. 4 (2003):911.
113. Leesa Fawcett, "Children's Wild Animal Stories: Questioning Inter-Species Bonds", Canadian Journal of Environmental Education 7, no. 2 (2002):126.
114. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949).
115. Planet Earth (Discovery Channel Communications and BBC, 2007).
116. March of the Penguins (Warner, 2005).
117. Jennifer Ludden, "A Hippo and Tortoise Tale", National Public Radio, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4754996.
118. Two examples: Andy Goldsworthy, Passage (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004), and Andy Goldsworthy, Time (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000).
119. James Hatley, "Techne and Phusis: Wilderness and the Aesthetics of the Trace in Andrew Goldsworthy."International Association for Environmental Philosophy, http://www.environmentalphilosophy.org/ environmentalphilosophy/techne-and-phusis.pdf.
120. Robert Bly, ed., News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1980).
121. Gerard de Nerval, "Golden Lines", in Bly, News of the Universe, p. 38.
122. Federico Garcia Lorca, "New York", in News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, ed. and trans. Bly, News of the Universe, pp. 110-12.
123. Warkentin, "It's Not Just What You Say, but How You Say It", p. 242.
124. Ibid., p. 243.
125. Neil Evemden, The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985), pp. 80-81.