By Professor Tema Milstein

Journal articles

Milstein T, 2016, 'The Performer Metaphor: Mother Nature Never Gives Us the Same Show Twice', Environmental Communication, 10, pp. 227 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2015.1018295

Milstein T; Pulos A, 2015, 'Culture Jam Pedagogy and Practice: Relocating Culture by Staying on One's Toes', Communication, Culture and Critique, 8, pp. 395 - 413, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cccr.12090

Milstein T, 2013, 'Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology, and Reconnection with the Natural World', DISCOURSE & SOCIETY, 24, pp. 504 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926513486580

Milstein T, 2013, 'Communicating 'normalcy' in Israel: Intra/intercultural paradox and interceptions in tourism discourse', Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 11, pp. 73 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2013.797987

Chen YW; Milstein T; Anguiano C; Sandoval J; Knudsen L, 2012, 'Challenges and benefits of community-based participatory research for environmental justice: A case of collaboratively examining ecocultural struggles', Environmental Communication, 6, pp. 403 - 421, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2012.698291

Anguiano C; Milstein T; de Larkin I; Chen YW; Sandoval J, 2012, 'Connecting Community Voices: Using a Latino/a Critical Race Theory Lens on Environmental Justice Advocacy', Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 5, pp. 124 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2012.661445

Milstein T; Kroløkke C, 2012, 'Transcorporeal tourism: Whales, fetuses, and the rupturing and reinscribing of cultural constraints', Environmental Communication, 6, pp. 82 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2011.642079

Milstein T; Dickinson E, 2012, 'Gynocentric Greenwashing: The Discursive Gendering of Nature', Communication, Culture & Critique, 5, pp. 510 - 532, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-9137.2012.01144.x

Milstein T, 2012, 'Survive, critique, and create: Guiding radical pedagogy and critical public scholarship with the discursive guideposts of ecopedagogy', Green Theory and Praxis Journal, 6, pp. 3 - 16, https://issuu.com/icasonlinepublications/docs/gtp_vol_6_issue_1_december_2012_revised_2

Milstein T; Anguiano C; Sandoval J; Chen YW; Dickinson E, 2011, 'Communicating a "new" environmental vernacular: A sense of relations-in-place', Communication Monographs, 78, pp. 486 - 510, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2011.618139

Peterson JC; Milstein T; Chen YW; Nakazawa M, 2011, 'Self-Efficacy in Intercultural Communication: The Development and Validation of a Sojourners' Scale', Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 4, pp. 290 - 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2011.602476

Milstein T, 2011, 'Nature identification: The power of pointing and naming', Environmental Communication, 5, pp. 3 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2010.535836

Tema M; Valerie M; Milstein T, 2009, 'Oppositional discourse in Israeli media: Reflections of multiple cultural identities in coverage of the Rabin-Arafat handshake', Howard Journal of Communications, 20, pp. 353 - 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10646170903300796

Milstein T, 2009, '"Somethin' Tells Me It's All Happening at the Zoo": Discourse, Power, and Conservationism', Environmental Communication: a journal of nature and culture, 3, pp. 25 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524030802674174

Milstein T, 2008, 'The nature inside our heads: Exploring possibilities for widespread cultural paradigm shifts about nature', Drain: Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, http://www.drainmag.com/index_sus.htm

Milstein T, 2008, 'When Whales "Speak for Themselves'': Communication as a Mediating force in Wildlife Tourism', Environmental Communication: a journal of nature and culture, 2, pp. 173 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524030802141745

Manusov V; Milstein T, 2005, 'Interpreting nonverbal behavior: Representation and transformation frames in Israeli and Palestinian media coverage of the 1993 Rabin-Arafat handshake', Western Journal of Communication, 69, pp. 183 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10570310500202322

Howard PN; Carr JN; Milstein T, 2005, 'Digital technology and the market for political surveillance', Surveillance and Society, 3, pp. 59 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v3i1.3320

Milstein T, 2005, 'Transformation abroad: Sojourning and the perceived enhancement of self-efficacy', International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 29, pp. 217 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2005.05.005

Milstein T, 2004, 'Book Review: Howard Williams, The ethics of diet: A catena of authorities deprecatory of the practice of flesh-eating', Ethics, Place and Environment, pp. 216 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1366879042000332998

Conference Papers

Milstein T, 2022, '“Got to get ourselves back to the garden”: The power of place-based positive environmental communication', New Orleans, LA, USA, presented at National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, USA, 20 November 2022

Milstein T, 2022, 'Defining “Nature”: Binary thinking and the stubborn optimism of dialectics', New Orleans, LA, USA., presented at National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, USA., 20 November 2022

Milstein T, 2022, 'Young women environmental activists and modelling ecocentric identities', Armidale, NSW, presented at Institute of Australian Geographers, Armidale, NSW, 15 July 2022

Milstein T, 2021, '“Coming home to nature:” Spatial imaginaries and environmental meanings about cities as “nature”', Seattle, WA, USA, presented at National Communication Association, Seattle, WA, USA, 20 November 2021

Milstein T, 2008, 'From pointing and naming to speaking for whales: A study of communicative acts as they inform human-nature relations', in Willard B; Green C (ed.), Communication at the intersection of nature and culture: Proceedings of the ninth biennial Conference on Communication and Environment, College of Communication, DePaul University, Chicago, IL. USA, pp. 238 - 252, presented at International Environmental Communication Association Conference on Communication and Environment, Chicago, IL. USA

Conference Presentations

Milstein T, 2023, '‘Open’ and ‘closed’ engagement with emotions in strategic and unstrategic environmental communication', presented at International Environmental Communication Association, 19 June 2023

Reports

Milstein T, 2021, A manatee with “TRUMP” scraped into its back was itself disturbing. But it reflects a deeper environmental problem. The Conversation., https://theconversation.com/a-manatee-with-trump-scraped-into-its-back-was-itself-disturbing-but-it-reflects-a-deeper-environmental-problem-154189

Milstein T; Anguiano C; Chen YW; Sandoval J, 2010, Hispanic environmental meanings and messages: Report to Conservation Voters of New Mexico and The Wilderness Society on research findings of the Connecting Community Voices study, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Milstein T; Anguiano C; Chen Y-W; Sandoval J, 2010, Hispanic environmental meanings and messages: Report to Conservation Voters of New Mexico and The Wilderness Society on research findings of the Connecting Community Voices study

Milstein T, 2009, Framing the message: Ways to communicate ecologically, emotionally, sensorially, and culturally connected nature. Report to US-Canada Salish Sea Association of Marine Naturalists.

Media

Milstein T, 2024, Re-stor(y)ing the Earth: How language shapes our world (Royal Society for Arts talk), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRkpfjC7rwI

Milstein T, 2024, Tema Milstein on environmental communication, ecocultural identity, public impact, and pedagogy (Cultural Studies podcast), https://culturalstudies.podbean.com/e/tema-milstein-on-environmental-communication-ecocultural-identity-public-impact-and-pedagogy/

Milstein T, 2023, Thinking in the World, Tema Milstein with Tim Ingold, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH1FgPb1-jE&t=5s

Milstein T, 2022, Film Documentary: The Connected Life. Interviewee, along with Jane Goodall and others. Release pending. Directed by Elke Duerr.

Milstein T, 2022, New Books Network: Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, https://newbooksnetwork.com/routledge-handbook-of-ecocultural-identity

Milstein T, 2022, ABC Nature Freaks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCMfbs_cGr8

Milstein T, 2022, Loving Nature and Revitalising Cities, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/loving-nature-and-revitalized-cities/13791316

Milstein T, 2022, Nature Freaks, Unsomnia: Thrive, https://unswcentreforideas.com/article/tema-milstein-nature-freaks

Milstein T, 2022, Nature Freaks: Unsomnia

Milstein T; Castro-Sotomayor J, 2021, Existence and Resistance: Ecocultural Identity as Reconfigurative in Our Times. Routledge Press Environment & Sustainability newsletter.

Milstein T, 2021, What’s Your Ecocultural Identity? ABC Radio National podcast: God Forbid., https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/godforbid/whats-your-ecocultural-identity/13374392

Milstein T, 2021, Ecocultural Identity. ABC Radio National podcast: Philosopher’s Zone, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/ecocultural-identity/13311966

Milstein T; Miller G, 2021, Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity. Podcast: Climactic., https://www.climactic.fm/show/climactic/gretchen-miller-tema-milstein-routledge-handbook-of-ecocultural-identity/

Milstein T; Carr J, 2021, Manatees, threats to biosystems, and the possibilities for systematic change. March 11, 2021. Community Access, Triple U FM, Shoalhaven Community Radio.

Milstein T; Carr J, 2021, A manatee with “TRUMP” scraped into its back was itself disturbing. But it reflects a deeper environmental problem. The Conversation., https://theconversation.com/a-manatee-with-trump-scraped-into-its-back-was-itself-disturbing-but-it-reflects-a-deeper-environmental-problem-154189

Milstein T; Newton R, 2021, Activators Series. Featured Activators, on ecocultural text, performance, and absence. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Chunky Move dance company podcast and basis of novel chapter., https://www.activators4.com/conversation-series/rhiannonandtema

Milstein T; Castro-Sotomayor J, 2021, Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity. National Communication Association Environmental Communication Division Digest., https://sites.google.com/view/ecdnca/the-ecdigest/issue-3-winter-2021?fbclid=IwAR22QavSYGcqV96EqpFUznnSIZy9szubW3n5CzSHHMS0p5PR1w6pSPlHeXk

Milstein T, 2021, Podcast Launch: Custodians of the Planet. Regenerative Futures Panel Discussion, including Professor of Sustainability Transformations Chris Riedy, UT Sydney; Kirsten Junor, Reverse Garbage; Sara Rickards, Future Giving. Recorded with live audience at Sydney’s Green Square Library, Aug. 19, 2019

Milstein T, 2020, The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity. Podcast: Custodians of the Planet, https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/custodians-of-the/the-routledge-handbook-of-OuhdqzASWG-/

Yildiz D; Milstein T; Castro-Sotomayor J; Carr J, 2020, The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity. Podcast: Custodians of the Planet., https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-routledge-handbook-of-ecocultural-identity/id1476323427?i=1000483708356

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