Environmental Awareness and Governance: Ecolinguistic and Discourse Perspectives is a comprehensive exploration that delves into the intricate relationship between language, discourse, and environmental issues. This book begins by examining the role of environmental governance in Moroccan political parties’ electoral programs, followed by an analysis of how Moroccan online media communicates water stress as a risk issue. It also provides an ecolinguistic analysis of a computer-animated Netflix film, “The Sea Beast”, and discusses the impact of climate change on Moroccan agriculture, particularly focusing on the “Generation Green” strategy. The editors and contributors explore the role of translation in the environmental movement and discusses the shift from the Anthropocene to the Capitalocene in the context of global climate change. They also provide a critical discourse analysis of the environmental discourse of the COP27, highlighting the North-South divide.
The latter part of this book focuses on environmental literacy and awareness among students and also examines the environmental awareness of Moroccan university students and its impact on their environmental practices. The book further discusses the role of visual language in environmental representation, using Moroccan cinema as a case study. It explores the intersection of language, translation, and posthumanism, focusing on cross-species interaction in Margaret Atwood’s trilogy. This book concludes with an ecocritical interpretation of solastalgia in Mohsin Hamid’s “Exit West” and a generic, ecocritical reading of climate change in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital Trilogy. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on environmental issues, making it a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in environmental studies.
List of Figures List of Tables Foreword: A Response to Climate Change Moha Ennaji Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Mohamed Mliless Chapter 1: Environmental Governance in Moroccan Political Parties’ Electoral Programs: An Ecolinguistic Analysis Mohamed Mliless, Mohamed Behnassi, and Rabiaa Bourhim Chapter 2: Ecolinguistic Analysis of Moroccan Online Media’s Communication of Water Stress as a Risk Issue Mohamed Mliless, Mohammed Larouz, and Lamiae Azzouzi Chapter 3: An Ecolinguistic Analysis of The Sea Beast, a Computer-Animated Netflix Film Chenghao Zhu, George M. Jacobs, Qingli Guo, Jasper Roe, and Meng Huat Chau Chapter 4: Climate Change and Moroccan Agriculture: An Ecolinguistic Analysis of “Generation Green” Strategy Mohamed Mliless and Abderrahim Khoumich Chapter 5: The Role of Translation in the Environmental Movement Driss Cherkaoui Chapter 6: Baccalaureate Students’ Environmental Literacy in the 2022 National English Language Composition Exam Mohamed Mliless, Abderrahim Khoumich, Said El Hamdaoui, and Brahim Ait Laaguid Chapter 7: Environmental Education in the Moroccan Educational Environment: Between Students’ Awareness and Teachers’ Views Lamiae Azzouzi, Saida Hdii, and Nourddine Amrous Chapter 8: An Examination of Moroccan University Students’ Environmental Awareness and its Impact on their Environmental Practices Nourreddine Menyani and Oulaid Amzaourou Chapter 9: Investigating Students’ Awareness of Water-Saving Behavior: ESTK Students as a Case Fouad Boulaid and Driss Cherkaoui Chapter 10: The North-South Divide: A Critical Analysis of the Environmental Discourse of the COP27 Ouidad Infi and Ghizlan ElAlaoui Chapter 11: Language, Translation and Posthumanism: Cross-Species Interaction in Margaret Atwood’s Trilogy Hajar Bouknana and Omar El Otmani Chapter 12: Ecocritical Interpretation of Solastalgia in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West Mohamed Louza Chapter 13: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital Trilogy: A Generic Ecocritical Reading of Climate Change Raghda Adel Mohammed Alemam Conclusion: Mohamed Mliless Appendix: Additional Materials for Chapter 1 About the Contributors
David Stringer is Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies and Second Language Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Mohamed Mliless is an independent researcher in Ecolinguistics and Critical Environmental Discourse Analysis, Morocco. He has published books on legal and environmental discourse and authored articles on social and environmental issues. He is a member of the International Ecolinguistics Association (IEA). Mohammed Larouz is Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at Moulay Ismail University of Meknès, Morocco.
