Communicating on Contested Terrain: A Discussion about the Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Interdisciplinary Work in Environmental Communication

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This roundtable begins with Robert Cox’s framing of environmental communication as a “crisis discipline,” a discipline that entails both the criticism of pressing environmental problems and the construction of alternatives. Roundtable participants from rhetoric, policy studies, and environmental engineering use the lens of their collaborative work to consider how to approach the construction of alternatives in situations that involve scholars, practitioners, and publics who may or may not share the same discourses, practices, and goals.

Sub Unit

• Environmental Communication Division

Chair

• Caroline Gottschalk-Druschke, University of Illinois, Chicago

Presenters

• Caroline Gottschalk-Druschke, University of Illinois, Chicago

• Genevieve Nano, University of Illinois, Chicago

• Clifford Shierk, University of Illinois, Chicago

Session Organizer

• Caroline Gottschalk-Druschke, University of Illinois, Chicago