Table of Contents

Introduction: Voice and the Environment—Critical Perspectives; Jennifer Peeples and Stephen Depoe PART I: VOICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY 1. Corporate Ventriloquism: Corporate Advocacy, the Coal Industry, and the Appropriation of Voice; Peter K. Bsumek, Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, Jennifer Peeples 2. Defending the Fort: Michael Crichton, Pulp Fiction, and Green Conspiracy; Patrick Belanger 3. Invoking the Ecological Indian: Rhetoric, Culture, and the Environment; Casey R. Schmitt 4. Sustainable Advocacy: Voice For and Before an Intergenerational Audience; Jessica M. Prody and Brandon Inabinet 5. RESPONSE ESSAY: The (Im)possibility of Voice in Environmental Advocacy; Danielle Endres PART II: VOICE AND CONSUMPTION 6. Voices of Organic Consumption: Understanding Organic Consumption as Political Action; Leah Sprain 7. Vote With Your Fork: The Performance of Environmental Voice at the Farmers' Market; Benjamin Garner 8. RESPONSE ESSAY: Thinking through Issues of Voice and Consumption; Laura Lindenfeld PART III: LISTENING TO NON-HUMAN VOICES 9. The Language that All Things Speak: Thoreau and the Voice of Nature; William Homestead 10. The Ethics of Listening in the Wilderness Writings of Sigurd F. Olson; David A. Tschida 11. Listening to the Natural World: Ecopsychology of Listening From a Hawai'ian Spiritual Perspective; Yukari Kunisue 12. RESPONSE ESSAY: Environmental Voices Including Dialogue with Nature, Within and Beyond Language; Donal Carbaugh CODA: Food, Future, Zombies; Eric King Watts

About the Author

Patrick Belanger, California State University, Monterey Bay, USA Pete Bsumek, James Madison University, USA Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Stephen Depoe, University of Cincinnati, USA Danielle Endres, University of Utah, USA Benjamin Garner, University of Kansas, USA William Homestead, New England College, USA Yukari Kunisue, Hawaii Tokai International College, USA Laura Lindenfeld, University of Maine, USA Jennifer Peeples, Utah State University, USA Jessica M. Prody St. Lawrence University, USA Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines, USA Casey R. Schmitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Steve Schwarze, University of Montana at Missoula, USA Leah Sprain, University of Colorado Boulder, USA David A. Tschida, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA Eric King Watts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA