[Linganth] CFP: Discursive Engagements with Environmental Change

[Jessica Pouchet]

AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting 2019 Vancouver, BC Nov. 20-24 *Session Title*:
Discursive Engagements with Environmental Change *Organizers*: Rosalie
Edmonds, UCLA (redmonds at ucla.edu) Jessica Pouchet, Northwestern University (
jessica.pouchet at northwestern.edu) (Discussant TBD) *Draft Session Abstract*:
Environmental policies, climate change negotiations, conservation
interventions, the marketing of ‘green’ products, and environmental justice
movements pivot on discursive strategies to narrate, frame, and change the
relationship between people and their ecological and physical surroundings.
Indeed, whether through place-making, code-switching, hashtags, or footing,
people use language to define, shape, and justify their relationship to the
environment and to one another. As environmental anthropologists have long
shown through explorations of political ecology, multispecies
entanglements, spirituality, and botanical knowledge, human ties to the
lands and seas are grounded in social relationships. Moreover, as
linguistic anthropologists continue to demonstrate, social relationships
are grounded in discursive interactions. This panel therefore aims to
engage discourse and discursive interaction as a means to examine the
emergence of environmental relationships and change. It will accordingly
build on the small, but growing body of work in anthropology investigating
the intersections of communication and the environment. We invite authors
to submit abstracts for papers that approach environmental issues through
the analytical lens of discourse, broadly construed, as well as papers that
explore the ways in which environmental changes may be shaping linguistic
practice. *To participate*: Please submit your abstract of 250 or fewer
words to both session organizers: Rosalie Edmonds (redmonds at ucla.edu) and
Jessica Pouchet (jessica.pouchet at northwestern.edu) by *March 30*. We intend
to notify authors of acceptance the following Monday.

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Jessica Pouchet, Ph.D.
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Anthropology
Northwestern University
jpouchet at u.northwestern.edu
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