Explores the intersections between writing and ecological studies.
Ecocomposition examines current trends in universities toward more environmentally sound work, explores the intersections between composition research-that is, discourse studies-and ecostudies, and offers possible pedagogies for the composition classroom. Never before have the intersections between ecotheory and composition studies in theory and pedagogy been addressed in this much depth or detail. As universities become increasingly concerned with issues of the environment within academic disciplines across the spectrum, this book brings together a diverse group of prominent voices to discuss the development of ecocomposition and its possibilities, and to argue for a greening of composition studies through which to engage the world in which we live.
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"An intriguing intellectual ride, this is a book that enables one to actually do something tangible rather than theorize amongst other like-minded theorists. There is simply no other book like it." Stuart C. Brown, coeditor of Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America
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Explores the intersections between writing and ecological studies.
Acknowledgments ix Foreword xi Marilyn M. Cooper Breaking New Ground in Ecocomposition: An Introduction 1(10) Christian R. Weisser Sidney I. Dobrin Writing Takes Place 11(16) Sidney I. Dobrin Sustainable Composition 27(12) Derek Owens Ecology, Alienation, and Literacy: Constraints and Possibilities in Ecocomposition 39(18) M. Jimmie Killingsworth John Krajicek The Politics of Place: Student Travelers and Pedagogical Maps 57(12) Julie Drew The Ecology of Genre 69(12) Anis Bawarshi Ecocomposition and the Greening of Identity 81(16) Christian R. Weisser Great Divides: Rhetorics of Literacy and Orality 97(20) Randall Roorda The Wilderness Strikes Back: Decolonizing the Imperial Sign in the Borderlands 117(14) Stephen G. Brown Education and Environmental Literacy: Reflections on Teaching Ecocomposition in Keene State Colleges Environmental House 131(16) Mark C. Long The Liberatory Positioning of Place in Ecocomposition: Reconsidering Paulo Freire 147(16) Arlene Plevin Ecofeminism and Ecocomposition: Pedagogies, Perspectives, and Intersections 163(16) Greta Gaard Ecology and Composition Studies: A Feminist Perspective on Living Relationships 179(14) Colleen Connolly The Ecology of Writerly Voice: Authorship, Ethos, and Persona 193(16) Christopher J. Keller Service Learning and Ecocomposition: Developing Sustainable Practices through Inter- and Extradisciplinarity 209(26) Annie Merrill Ingram Restoring Bioregions Through Applied Composition 235(18) Paul Lindholdt ``Written In Its Own Season: Nature as Ground in the Postmodern World 253(12) Edward Lotto Dont Forget to Argue: Problems, Possibilities, and Ecocomposition 265(16) David Thomas Sumner Writing Home: Composition, Campus Ecology, and Webbed Environments 281(10) Bradley John Monsma Contributors 291(5) Index 296
Christian R. Weisser is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hawaii (Hilo). Sidney I. Dobrin is Associate Professor of English and the Director of Writing Programs at the University of Florida. He is the author of Constructing Knowledges: The Politics of Theory-Building and Pedagogy in Composition, and the coeditor (with Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson) of The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse, and (with Gary A. Olson) Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom, all from SUNY Press.
