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The Communicative Constitution Of Environment: Land, Weather, Climate, Leanna K. Smithberger
The Communicative Constitution Of Environment: Land, Weather, Climate, Leanna K. Smithberger
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
My project examines the communicative constitution of environment: how we mediate environment in discursive practice, and arrange chaotic and complex timeplaces into organized relationships of agents and objects which act and are acted upon. Climate scholars across disciplines are calling for a paradigm shift in how we understand, study, inhabit, and relate to Earth’s varied environments. In this dissertation, I demonstrate how communication practices do the work of constituting the environment as we know it, and therefore conclude with the hopeful suggestion that these same practices can be used to do the work of a paradigm shift — that is, …