Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Storytelling and Ecology: Reconnecting People and Nature through Oral Narrative 2. Storytelling as a Means of Conversation about Ecology and Sustainability 3. Time, Desire and Consequence in Ecological Stories 4. Composting Snakes and Dragons: Ecological Enchantment of Local Landscapes 5. The Listening Place: The Space of Transformative Stillness 6. Supernatural Ecology and the Transcendence of Normative Expectation Bibliography Index

Wise, precise, scientifically fluent while achingly expressive, and distilled from decades of practice and research, this book reimagines storytelling for this moment of ecological emergency. Nanson opens up his story-crafting processes to illustrate how storytellers can integrate different forms of knowledge, and make space for listeners’ own explorations, emotions, and aspirations.

Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics emerges at a time when businesses, universities, national governments and many other organisations are declaring an ecological emergency. With climate change and biodiversity loss diminishing the ability of the Earth to support life, business leaders, politicians and academics are asking how their work can contribute to efforts to preserve the ecosystems that life depends on. This book series explores the role that linguistics can play in addressing the great challenges faced by humanity and countless other species. Although significant advances have been made in addressing social issues such as racism, sexism and social justice, linguistics has typically focused on oppression in human communities and overlooked other species and the wider ecosystems that support life. This is despite the disproportionate impact of ecological destruction on oppressed groups. In contrast, this book series treats language as an intrinsic part of both human societies and wider ecosystems. It explores the role that different areas of linguistic enquiry, such as discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, language diversity and cognitive linguistics can play at a time of ecological emergency. The titles explore themes such as the stories that underpin unequal and unsustainable industrial societies; language contact and how linguistic imperialism threatens the ecological wisdom embedded in endangered languages; the use of linguistic analysis in ecocriticism, ecopsychology and other ecological humanities and social sciences; and emerging theoretical frameworks such as Harmonious Discourse Analysis. The titles also look to cultures around the world for inspirational forms of language that can lead to new stories to live by. In this way, the series contributes to linguistic theory by placing language fully in its social and ecological context, and to practical action by describing the role that linguistics can play in addressing ecological issues. If you are interested in writing a book for the series, please contact Mariana Roccia (mariana@ecolinguistics-association.org) Advisory Board: Nadine Andrews (Lancaster University, UK) Maria Bortoluzzi (University of Udine, Italy) Martin Döring (University of Hamburg, Germany) Sue Edney (University of Bristol, UK) Alwin Fill (University of Graz, Austria) Diego Forte (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Amir Ghorbanpour (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran) Nataliia Goshylyk (Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ukraine) Huang Guowen (South China Agricultural University, China) George Jacobs (Independent Scholar) Kyoohoon Kim (Daegu University, South Korea) Katerina Kosta (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Mira Lieberman-Boyd (University of Sheffield, UK) Keith Moser (Mississippi State University, USA) Douglas Ponton (University of Catania, Italy) Robert Poole (University of Alabama, USA) Alison Sealey (University of Lancaster, UK) Nina Venkataraman (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Daniela Francesca Virdis (University of Cagliari, Italy) Sune Vork Steffensen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)