Communicating a “New” Environmental Vernacular: A Sense of Relations-in-Place

Connecting Community Voices: Using a Latino/a Critical Race Theory Lens on Environmental Justice Advocacy

“…While Latino/a voices are often unheard in the environmental realm, there is evidence supporting unique Latino environmental discourses and efforts (Milstein, Anguiano, Sandoval, Chen, & Dickinson, 2011), as well as cases where Latino communities have faced the repercussions of environmental racism (Figueroa, 2001;Peña & Gallegos, 1993). Some focus has been given to the particular dynamic of environmental racism between New Mexico Hispano communities and mainstream environmental organizations, including early active participation of land-grant activists like Reies Tijerina in el Movimiento of the 1960s civil rights movement (Hammerback & Jensen, 1980;Kosek, 2004;Maciel & Peña, 2000).…”

Consumer Materialism: An Ideological Critique and a Dialogic Response

“…Theoretically, productiveconsumption and the critique on which it is based extend environmental communication's general mission to balance the symbolic with the material (Milstein, 2009;Milstein et al, 2011;Milstein & Krolokke, 2012;Rogers, 1998;Schutten & Rogers, 2011;Willard, 2007). Practically, productive-consumption enacts environmental communication's mission as a crisis discipline (Cox, 2007).…”

“…At the same time, turning toward acts of productive-consumption is a way of turning toward the life world of one's natural physical, social, and psychological needs. The consumer materialism propagated by television's commercial sponsors seeks to tyrannize human nature (see Milstein et al, 2011) with interested symbols of ideological domination. Acts of productiveconsumption, on the other hand, reinstate and reinvigorate the dialogic relationship between humanity and its animal nature.…”

“…Willard (2007) described how Leopold (1949), in A Sand County Almanac, situated ''knowledge gleaned from the land in a context of an ecological human agency that serves his concept of the land ethic'' (Willard, 2007, p. 222). Milstein, Anguiano, Sandoval, Chen, & Dickinson (2011) theorized that compound terms like ecoculture and humannature have the potential to ''override predominant Western human-nature=culture-nature binaries'' (p. 503). Milstein and Kroloke (2012) concluded that ecstatic experiences of whale watching and prenatal ultrasound pictures elicit an awareness that ''being human is being nature'' (p. 97).…”

It tastes better because … consumer understandings of UK farmers’ market food

“…My intention in doing this was not to have two distinguishing categories, as I feel it is almost impossible to totally separate these codes -for example, describing the taste of bread may be influenced by an undeclared preference for organic food. Instead, these codes are used to explore what it means to perform taste, and while their focuses have certain perspectives and emphasises, they are connected through their focuses on issues of taste, all of which I reason gives greater depth to how we examine taste (Milstein et al 2011;Nicolini 2009). …”