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Environmental Rhetoric and Ecologies of Place

Edited by Peter Goggin

To Be Published July 1st 2013 by Routledge – 256 pages

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

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Description

Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience — the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society. This book explores some of the complex relationships, collaborations, compromises, and contradictions between human endeavor and situated discourses, identities and landscapes, social justice and natural resources, movement and geographies, unpacking and grappling with the complexities of rhetoric of presence. Making a significant contribution to exploring the complex discursive constructions of environmental rhetorics and place-based rhetorics, this collection considers discourses, actions, and adaptations concerning environmental regulations and development, sustainability, exploitation, and conservation of energy resources. Essays visit arguments on cultural values, social justice, environmental advocacy, and identity as political constructions of rhetorical place and space. Rural and urban case studies contribute to discussions of the ethics and identities of environment, and the rhetorics of environmental cartography and glocalization. Contributors represent a range of specialization across a variety of scholarly research in such fields as communication studies, rhetorical theory, social/cultural geography, technical/professional communication, cartography, anthropology, linguistics, comparative literature/ecocriticism, literacy studies, digital rhetoric/media studies, and discourse analysis. Thus, this book goes beyond the assumption that rhetorics are situated, and challenges us to consider not only how and why they are situated, but what we mean when we theorize notions of situated, place-based rhetorics.

Contents

Introduction Peter N. Goggin Part I: Sense of Places 1. Reading the Atlas of the Patagonian Sea: Toward a Visual-Material Rhetorics of Environmental Advocacy Amy D. Propen 2. "Not in My Backyard!": Place-Identity and the Sociospatial Environment Rick Carpenter 3. Mapping Literacies: Land-Use Planning and the Sponsorship of Place Rebecca Powell 4. Garden Ecologies: Fostering Social Justice Through Sense of Place Ginger Knowlton 5. "We Face East": The Narragansett Dawn and Ecocentric Discourses of Identity and Justice Matthew Ortoleva 6. Sense of Place, Identity, and Cultural Preservation in an Arizona Community Deborah L. Williams & Elizabeth A. Brandt Part II: Developing Places 7. Speaking to the Void: The Rhetoric of Space-Based Solar Power Kimberly Rose Moekle 8. The Place of Clean Coal Brad Benz 9. Drilling Into the Rhetoric of the Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Development James Guignard 10. Eco-Seeing Greenwash: Inventing New Realities Brian Cope 11. Mt. Taylor, New Mexico: Efforts to Provide Resilience to a Sacred Mountain Socio-Ecological System Sally Said 12. From Concept to Action: Do Environmental Regulations Promote Sustainability? Becca Camack & Linn Bekins Part III: Living Places 13. A Land Ethic for Urban Dwellers Gesa E. Kirsch 14. Brooklyn Bridge and Its Uses: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Ecological Urbanism Nathan Mickelson 15. Flaneury and Ecocomposition: Walking and Writing Community Jaqueline McLeod Rogers 16. A Place of One’s Own: The Challenge of Outdoor Recreation Samantha Send-Cook & Danielle Endres 17. Conjuring the Farm: Ideographs of U.S. Agriculture Cynthia R. Haller 18. Toward a Sustainable Rhetoric: Using up Rhetorical Energies with the Christian Children’s Fund Matt Newcomb & Erin Newcomb 19. National Culture, Public Memory, and the Cultivation of Environmental Citizenship Cindy M. Spurlock & Alison Singer

Author Bio

Peter N. Goggin is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, US and a Senior Scholar/Scientist with ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability.

Name: Environmental Rhetoric and Ecologies of Place (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by Peter Goggin. Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience — the preservation and conservation of the earth...
Categories: Rhetoric, Environmental Communication, Ecology - Environment Studies, Environment & Society