Environmental Communication Commission
NCA Conference
New Orleans, November 21-24, 2002

The 88th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association will be held in New Orleans from November 21-24, 2002. The Environmental Communication Commission has organized the following sessions.

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Of Special Note: Be sure to check out The Scholarship of Kevin Deluca and Tarla Rai Peterson: A Web Based, Audience Oriented Discussion

Thursday, November 21

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION IN ACTION: PEDAGOGY, PRAXIS AND POSSIBILITY, I

• "Creating the Text: The Daunting Challenge of Combining Environment and Communication." Judith E. Hendry, University of New Mexico
• "Service Learning as Pedagogical Strategy in Environmental Communication." Susan Reilly, Florida Atlantic University
• "The Institute of Environmental Communications: Improving Communications Among Stakeholders." Robert A. Thomas, Loyola University, New Orleans
• "Future Directions in Environmental Communication Education." Laura L. Perkins, Southern Illinois University

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION IN ACTION: PEDAGOGY, PRAXIS AND POSSIBILITY, II

• "Social Science Theory and Research in Environmental Communication Campaigns." Garrett O'Keefe, Colorado State University
• "Creating Assignments for an Undergraduate Course in Environmental Communication." Terence Check, St. John's University
• "Choices for Lifelong Learning: Using Learning Contracts in the Environmental Communication Course." Star A. Muir, George Mason University
• "Writing as Process: Environmental Communication Assignments." Anthony Chiaviello, University of Houston

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMNICATION IN ACTION: CASE STUDIES

• "'Drive Clean Only': The Sierra Club Joins the Effort to Put More Hybrid Gas/Electric Cars on American Roads." Patricia Paystrup, Southern Utah University
• "Countering Communication in Action: Industry Strategies to Discredit Silent Spring." John T. Llewellyn, Wake Forest University
• "Securing Wayne County's Farmland, Preserving America's Heartland: Analysis of a Failed PDR (Purchase of Development Rights) Ballot Initiative in Wayne County, Ohio." Julie T. Woods, College of Wooster, Denise M. Bostdorff, College of Wooster

THE ENVIRONMENT'S HIDDEN ENEMY: MEDIA FRAMING HAS CLEAR-CUT MOTHER EARTH

• "The Historical Constrtuction of EcoDefense: Moneywrenchers or Unlawful Sabateurs." Steven W. Pedigo, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
• "Up in My Tree: A Case Study of Direct Action." Daniel M. Larson, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
• "EarthFirst! Strategy: Paradigm Challenge of Irrelevant Incrementalism." Dylan P. Wolfe, State University of New York
• "Ecodefenders Are Not Alone." David A. Tschida, University of Missouri, Columbia

COMMUNICATING THE ENVIRONMENT IN WORDS AND ACTIONS: INTERVIEWS WITH AGRICULTURALISTS

• "Public Performance and Candid Conversations About Farming, Food, and Fraternity." Tarla R. Peterson, University of Utah
• "Re-Mapping the Farm: Frontiers and Bridges of Sustainability in the Ethnographic Narratives of Small Farmers and Migrant Farmworkers." Tes Thraves, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• "Communities in California Agricultural Fields: Migrant Laborers and Organic Farmers." Jean P. Retzinger, University of California, Berkeley
• "Weather Watching and Agriculture: A Meterological Land Ethic." Mark Meister, North Dakota State University, Theresa L. Hest, North Dakota State University

CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION ARTS IN CREATING A CULTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS

• "EcoCulture: Communication Arts and the Cultural Evolution of Environmental Consciousness." Lea J. Parker, Northern Arizona University
• "Environmental Symbolism in Music: How the Youth of the 1960's-70s Spawned an Eco-Cultural Paradigm Shift." Kathleen Harvey, Syracuse University
• "'Everyman' and the Earth: The Mixed Media Narratives of Robert ParkeHarrison." Diane S. Hope, Rochester Institute of Technology
• "Protecting Planet Earth: Environmental Narratives in American Superhero Comic Books." Terence Check, St. John's University
• "Return of the Noble Savage: Popular Culture Images of Native Americans and the Environment." Michael W. Salvador, Washington State University

SCHOLARS IN ACTION: COMMUNICATING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT

• Robert H. Bullard, Clark Atlanta University
• Robert A. Thomas, Loyola University, New Orleans
• Beverly Wright, Xavier University

Leaders of university-based environmental communication centers for environmental justice will discuss the challeges, rewards and details of being actively involved in environmental decision-making and environmental activism.

CONSENSUS IN ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION ACTION: CITIZEN EMPOWERMENT OR ELITE CONTROL: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

• Kevin M. Deluca, University of Georgia
• Jennifer Duffield Hamilton, University of Cincinnati
• Susan L. Senecah, State University of New York, Syracuse
• Gregg B. Walker, Oregon State University
• Caitlin Wills Toker, Gainesville College

Participants will be introduced, and asked to provide a 4-5 minute description of their research or consulting projects. These descriptions will focus on theoretical and/or practical issues pertaining to the role of consensus in public participation and environmental communication settings. The remaining time will be devoted to a discussion of these issues by participants and audience members.

Friday, November 22

FROM THE RADICAL TO THE SUBLIME: RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF "NATURAL RESOURCES"

• "Tapping Partriotism: Mapping Efforts to Link Patriotism and Energy Efficiency Post 9/11." Andrew R. Opel, Florida State University
• "Speaking on (Green) Tongues: Transitional Environmental Discourse in the Fight Against Oil in the Costa Rican Caribbean." Russell Stockard, California Lutheran University
• "Place as Space: Rhetorical Constructions of the Environment in Four Nature-Oriented Magazines." David A. Tschida, University of Missouri, Columbia
• "Liberating Paris: Spatial, Textual, and Cognitive Praxis in an Urban Green Movement." Curtis D. Hirsh, University of Texas, Austin

FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: CASE STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING

• "Expanding the Functionalist Approach to Social Movements: Negotiating Individual and Group Identities in and Deep Ecology Online Community." Karen A. Anderson, University of Kansas, Robert C. Rowland, University of Kansas
• "Analyzing Environmental Controversy: A Rhetorical and Systems Theory Approach." Susan S. Sattell, Northwestern University
• "Past Injustice in Collaborative Conservation." Jonathan I. Lange, Southern Oregon University
• "Assessing the Impact of Information in Relation to Individual and Media Frames: A Suburban Case Study of Wildlife Issues." Andrew Pleasant, Cornell University, William F. Siemer, Cornell University, Daniel J. Decker, Cornell University, James Shanahan, Cornell University

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION COMMISSION BUSINESS MEETING

• Mark Meister, North Dakota State University
• Steven J. Schwarze, University of Montana
• Barbara E. Willard, DePaul University
• Jean P. Retzinger, University of California, Berkeley
• Patricia Paystrup, Southern Utah University
• Tarla R. Peterson, University of Utah

Saturday, November 23

TOP STUDENT PAPERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION

• "The Production of Quiescence: The Environmental Rhetoric in the 2000 Presidential Campaign *." Robert J. Hinrichs, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• "Images of Nature in Organizational Stakeholder Publications: The Rhetorical Function of Ecopornography in Green-Washing." Jessica L. Durfee, University of Utah
• "Nonverbal Ways of Communicating with Nature: A Cross-Case Study." Michelle A. Scollo Sawyer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• "From Radical Acts of Arson to Grotesque Environmental Texts: Perspective by Incongruity in the Earth Liberation Front's Visuals." Curt A. Gilstrap, Purdue University
• "Ambivalency and Articulations of the Nature/Culture Dualism in Environmental Discourse." Tracy Marafiote, University of Utah, Emily J. Plec, University of Utah

* Top Student Paper

FROM THE SACROSANCT TO THE SORDID: ENVIRONMENTAL RHETORIC IN ACTION

• "Baudrillard and Celtic Sprirituality: Possiblities for Earth-Centered Communication." Janet M. Cramer, University of New Mexico, Karen A. Foss, University of New Mexico
• "The Rhetoric of Forest Fire Management: A Case Study of the Santa Fe Watershed." Matt Koschmann, University of New Mexico
• "Xeriscaping: Why Some Convert and Others Resist." Holly Siebert Kawakami, University of New Mexico
• "Shark Attack: The 'Nature of Humans' as Revealed in Popular Media Discourse about Shark Finning." Krisin Munson, University of New Mexico

TOP PAPERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION

• "Making Sense of Salmon: Synecodoche and Irony in a Natural Resource Crisis *." Mark P. Moore, Oregon State University
• "Critical/Ludic Performatives: A Case Study in the Serious Play of an Environmental Activist." Jonathan M. Gray, Southern Illinois University
• "Health, Hogs, Halifax and the Environmental Pharmakon." Steven L. Reagles, Bethany Lutheran College
• "Blue Skies, Green Industry: Corporate Environmental Reports as Utopian Narratives." Wende V. Feller, State University of New York, Albany

* Top Paper

Sunday, November 24

THE SCHOLARSHIP OF KEVIN DELUCA AND TARLA RAI PETERSON: A WEB BASED, AUDIENCE ORIENTED DISCUSSION

• John W. Delicath, University of Cincinnati
• Alan Razee, California Polytechnic State University
• Jean P. Retzinger, University of California, Berkeley
• Raymie E. McKerrow, Ohio University

• Kevin M. Deluca, University of Georgia
• Tarla R. Peterson, University of Utah

COMMUNICATION IN ACTION: LESSONS FROM STAKEHOLDERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CONTROVERSIES

Representatives from various environmental justice stakeholder communities in Louisiana and New Orleans will speak on the roundtable.

ENGAGING COMMUNITIES: CULTURAL CRITICISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

• "Welcome to 'Cancer Alley' LA: Building Community for Environmental and Social Change." Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Indiana University
• "Cultural Narratives and Environmental Controversy: The Case of Libby, Montana." Steven J. Schwarze, University of Montana
• "Siting Nuclear Waste: Constructs of 'Community' in Oppositional Rhetoric." Jennifer A. Peeples, Utah State University
• "Think Global, Act Local: The Paradox of Youth Environmental Action." Renee Lertzman, City University of New York

PHASING OUT NATURE: THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION

• "Hoodwinking the Nation Again: A Rhetorical Approach to Expert Discourse About Global Warming." Richard D Besel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• "An Ethical View of the Planet: An Expansion of Peter Singer's Philosophy of Ethics." Richard E. Paine, North Central College
• "What Large Teeth You Have: From Ecotopia to Eco-Terrorism." Robert BS Collins, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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