ArticleOpen Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2024.12.024
Book Review on Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By
Xu Chang
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210095, Jiangsu, China.
*Corresponding author: Xu Chang
Published: January 13,2025
Abstract
Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By, authored by Arran Stibbe, a professor of ecological linguistics at the University of Gloucestershire, is marked as a foundational contribution in the field of econarrative. This weighty work offers a well-defined, coherent, and all-inclusive overview of econarrative, inspiring readers to recognize the ecological influence of these narratives on people’s thoughts, words, and actions and hence to find econarratives useful in guiding them in everyday life, which can contribute to the construction of an ecologically harmonious future. As excellent theoretical works are often hailed for their practicality in the real world, this book also boasts the same virtue. It is safe to say that this work will be a new masterpiece in econarrative.
Keywords
Book review; Econarrative; Environmental narrative; Ecological linguistics; Ecology; Arran Stibbe
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How to cite this paper
Book Review on Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By
How to cite this paper: Xu Chang. (2024) Book Review on Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 8(12), 2801-2804.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2024.12.024