Ecological Feelings

Joshua Trey Barnett is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. An interdisciplinary scholar, he traverses the fields of rhetoric, critical theory, and the environmental humanities. His book Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence won the 2022 Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award in Environmental Communication.

“Ecological Feelings is a beautiful, multifaceted conversation on the role of feeling in our relations with the more-than-human world. Each essay has its finger on a different affective pulse of the current moment, which is often reduced to a binary choice between hope and despair. Deeply moving and honest, timely and timeless, this book is bound to become a classic text of environmental rhetoric.” —Jenell Johnson, author of Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common

• Contents Introduction Care, Joshua Trey Barnett Concern, Chris Ingraham Contempt, Eric S. Jenkins and Peter K. Bsumek Empathy, Ariel K. McK. Burgess Fear, Emma Frances Bloomfield Grief, Jessica Chaplain Hope, Jennifer Clary-Lemon Joy, Mariko O. Thomas Numbness, Jeremy G. Gordon Optimism, Dustin A. Greenwalt Possessiveness, Elizabeth Brunner Regret, T. Jake Dionne Saudades, Joanne Marras Tate Contributors