From Ecological Grief to Gelassenheit

Rhetorics of Sentiment and Science in Hemlock

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21192571
AutoresJoshua Trey Barnett (0000-0002-6433-4232, Pennsylvania State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen15
Número6
Páginas783-797
Fecha de publicación2021-08-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironmental Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1752-4032 • E-ISSN: 1752-4040
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17524032.2021.1906292
OpenAlexW3140868895
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas34

This article presents a reading of Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge, a 2014 collection of essays authored by Harvard Forest ecologists that addresses the ongoing destruction of the eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). Introduced to the eastern U.S. in the early 1950s, the hemlock woolly adelgid has been slowly but surely decimating the eastern hemlock across most of its native range. Hemlock offers an account of the species’ history of decline and recovery as well as of the Harvard Forest researchers’ relationship with this foundational species. Locating within Hemlock a rhetoric of sentiment and science, this essay considers the authors’ embrace of ecological grief and then demonstrates how they deploy historical and long-term ecological research to channel that grief into some actions rather than others. Thus, this essay unearths how sentiment and science merge and diverge in discourses concerning ecological loss and transformation

Biology · Grief · Linguistics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Tsuga · Western Hemlock · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Ecology