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Fragments, limbs, and dreadful accidents

The burden of an ecological education in a “World of Wounds”

Abstract

Conservation, as a uniquely human ethical practice is taught, understood, and managed through human dialogue. So, what would more apt dialogic principles look like if of our goal becomes aligned with the ideal of sustaining human life on this planet in perpetuity? This chapter contributes to the literature on dialogic ethics by examining our current water pollution crisis to argue for embracing Aldo Leopold’s language of biotic communities as a way to decenter the human ego in dialogue and put a premium on our collective dependence on what the Sioux Nation have popularized in their struggle against the North Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) as a sacred resource.

Abstract

Conservation, as a uniquely human ethical practice is taught, understood, and managed through human dialogue. So, what would more apt dialogic principles look like if of our goal becomes aligned with the ideal of sustaining human life on this planet in perpetuity? This chapter contributes to the literature on dialogic ethics by examining our current water pollution crisis to argue for embracing Aldo Leopold’s language of biotic communities as a way to decenter the human ego in dialogue and put a premium on our collective dependence on what the Sioux Nation have popularized in their struggle against the North Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) as a sacred resource.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction ix
  5. Ethics in dialogue 1
  6. Impassible peace 25
  7. Proposal for a typology of listening markers and listening request markers 45
  8. The ethics of intercultural dialogue 77
  9. Differing versions of dialogic aptitude 127
  10. An interlocutory logic approach of a case of professional ethics 149
  11. Dialogue and ethics in the library 179
  12. Agents of awakening 199
  13. The rhetoric of discourse 215
  14. Fragments, limbs, and dreadful accidents 245
  15. Dialogic ethics 265
  16. Index 283
Dialogic Ethics
This chapter is in the book Dialogic Ethics
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.30.10vel

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction ix
  5. Ethics in dialogue 1
  6. Impassible peace 25
  7. Proposal for a typology of listening markers and listening request markers 45
  8. The ethics of intercultural dialogue 77
  9. Differing versions of dialogic aptitude 127
  10. An interlocutory logic approach of a case of professional ethics 149
  11. Dialogue and ethics in the library 179
  12. Agents of awakening 199
  13. The rhetoric of discourse 215
  14. Fragments, limbs, and dreadful accidents 245
  15. Dialogic ethics 265
  16. Index 283
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