Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication

Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology at the Gothenburg Research Institute and School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Ivan Murin is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Social Studies and Ethnology at Matej Bel University, Slovakia, and visiting scholar at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Michael E. Dove is a lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.

• Introduction.- Dancing with Lava: Indigenous Interactions with an Active Volcano in Arizona.- Arsenic Fields: Community Understandings of Risk, Place, and Landscape.- Cultural Transmission in Slovak Mountain Regions: Local Knowledge as Symbolic Argumentation.- Community Voices, Practices, and Memories in Environmental Communication: Iliamna Lake Yup’ik Place Names, Alaska.- Demographic Change and Local Community Sustainability: Heritagization of Land Abandonment Symbols.- Living Stone Bridges: Epistemological Divides in Heritage Environmental Communication.- “The Sea Has No Boundaries”: Collaboration and Communication Between Actors in Coastal Planning on the Swedish West Coast.- Power, Conflicts, and Environmental Communication in the Struggles for Water Justice in Rural Chile: Insights from the Epistemologies of the South and the Anthropology of Power.- Commentary.