Making Truth: Eco-Communication in the Anthropocene

Eva Lilja; Mona Lilja

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Making Truth

Eco-Communication in the Anthropocene

Eva Lilja and Mona Lilja

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 41 | De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences

About this book

The pursuit of truth is of crucial importance in environmentalism. How can we establish shared realities that encompass biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollutions that disrupt essential ecosystems? Taking signs and repetitions as a point of departure, Eva Lilja and Mona Lilja suggest a range of basic communicative practices that could be the foundation of a semiotics of sustainability. Their book aims for an in-depth exploration of eco-strategies and expands on how we could – perhaps even should – communicate sustainability issues. Homing in on problems related to communication, Making Truth probes into the role of signs, the importance of reality effects, repetitions, scripts, emotions, and strategies of (de)politicization.

Fills a gap in contemporary research by approaching sustainable communication as “truth-making”, which requires emotions, repetitions, and changing representations.
Truly interdisciplinary, integrating perspectives from several disciplines.

Author / Editor information

Eva Lilja is Professor emerita of Literature at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Lilja wrote the official Swedish handbook in metrics. In her latest book Rhythm in Modern Poetry (2024) she develops the theory of cognitive poetics. Lilja specializes in meaning-making processes of rhythm and signification.

Mona Lilja currently serves as a Professor in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and as the Head of Department at the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University. Lilja’s area of interest is the linkages between resistance and social change as well as the particularities – the character and emergence – of various forms of resistance.

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“Drawing on theoretical concepts from semiotics, cultural studies and philosophy and a fascinating range of case studies, this book proposes pathways towards meaningful and effective strategies for actively communicating today’s pressing environmental issues. An impressive blend of theory and practice.”
Theo van Leeuwen, University of Southern Denmark

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgment Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
2 (Re)visiting signification processes: A critical assessment towards an agenda for future research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
3 Establishing truths: Communicating through repetitions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	20
4 Eco-friendly temporal scripts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
5 Communication in the Anthropocene: The rhetoric and representation of Greta Thunberg, case study 1 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
6 The wilderness narrative: The doing, being and installing of wilderness in Sweden and France, case study 2 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	52
7 Reality effects as communication: Japanese civil-society strategies of representation against pesticides and poverty, case study 3 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
8 Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
9 References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	92

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eBook published on:

June 2, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783111325057

Hardcover published on:

June 2, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111324951

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

9

Main content:

95

Coloured Illustrations:

7

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111325057

eBook ISBN: 9783111325057

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111324951

Keywords for this book

Sustainable Communication; Constructive Resistance; Environmental Communication; Cultural Communication; Climate Change

Audience(s) for this book

Scholars and students of Environmental Studies, Sociology, Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Geography, Communication Studies.

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