Select Publications
Journal articles
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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2011, 'Nature identification: The power of pointing and naming', Environmental Communication, 5, pp. 3 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2010.535836
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
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
,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
,2022, 'Young women environmental activists and modelling ecocentric identities', Armidale, NSW, presented at Institute of Australian Geographers, Armidale, NSW, 15 July 2022
,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
,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
2023, '‘Open’ and ‘closed’ engagement with emotions in strategic and unstrategic environmental communication', presented at International Environmental Communication Association, 19 June 2023
,Reports
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
,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
,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
,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
2024, Re-stor(y)ing the Earth: How language shapes our world (Royal Society for Arts talk), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRkpfjC7rwI
,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/
,2023, Thinking in the World, Tema Milstein with Tim Ingold, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH1FgPb1-jE&t=5s
,2022, Film Documentary: The Connected Life. Interviewee, along with Jane Goodall and others. Release pending. Directed by Elke Duerr.
,2022, New Books Network: Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, https://newbooksnetwork.com/routledge-handbook-of-ecocultural-identity
,2022, ABC Nature Freaks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCMfbs_cGr8
,2022, Loving Nature and Revitalising Cities, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/loving-nature-and-revitalized-cities/13791316
,2022, Nature Freaks, Unsomnia: Thrive, https://unswcentreforideas.com/article/tema-milstein-nature-freaks
,2022, Nature Freaks: Unsomnia
,2021, Existence and Resistance: Ecocultural Identity as Reconfigurative in Our Times. Routledge Press Environment & Sustainability newsletter.
,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
,2021, Ecocultural Identity. ABC Radio National podcast: Philosopher’s Zone, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/ecocultural-identity/13311966
,2021, Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity. Podcast: Climactic., https://www.climactic.fm/show/climactic/gretchen-miller-tema-milstein-routledge-handbook-of-ecocultural-identity/
,2021, Manatees, threats to biosystems, and the possibilities for systematic change. March 11, 2021. Community Access, Triple U FM, Shoalhaven Community Radio.
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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-/
,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
,2020, What is Ecocultural Identity?, Youtube, UNSW School of Humanities & Languages channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k72hINmoWps&list=PL50XnIfJxPDWiyyRBSJJoQI3VPkcxYmhv&index=5
,2020, What is an ecocultural identity and why it matters to you., UNSW Newsroom, https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/social-affairs/what-ecocultural-identity-and-why-it-matters-you
,2020, Nancy Hillier Lecture | Climate Justice — new community activism. Podcast: Climactic., https://www.climactic.fm/99
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