Mourning in the Anthropocene

JOSHUA TREY BARNETT is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, where he holds a joint appointment at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. The National Communication Association’s Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division honored Barnett with its 2021 Early Career Award for outstanding scholarly contributions.

“Anything written by Joshua Trey Barnett merits serious attention, but this book takes the prize so far. An earnest and empathic call to acknowledge and dwell with the sense of loss and grief born from our imperiled planet, this text is also a call to celebrate the wonders of earthly coexistence in all their complex specificity and nuance. With attentive senses and articulate sentences, Barnett gives us an ecological rhetoric worthy of our troubled times.”—CHRIS INGRAHAM, associate professor of communication, University of Utah, and author of Gestures of Concern

• Contents Acknowledgments Prologue. Loss: A Reckoning Chapter 1. Ecological Grief: A Rhetorical Achievement Chapter 2. Anticipating Loss: On Naming Chapter 3. Revealing Loss: On Archiving Chapter 4. Imagining Loss: On Making Visible Epilogue. Caring Rhetorics: Meditations Notes Works Cited Index