1st Edition
Image Politics The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism
By Kevin Michael DeLuca
Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This exceptional volume examines “image events” as a rhetorical tactic utilized by environmental activists. Author Kevin Michael DeLuca analyzes widely televised environmentalist actions in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfills fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing and transforming identities, discourses, communities, cultures, and world views. Image Politics... Read more
Contents: Preface. Making Waves. Meditation I: The Rhetoric of Social Movements: A Theoretical Diagnostics and Overhaul. Imaging Social Movements. Meditation II: The Possibilities of Nature in a Postmodern Age: The Case of Environmental Justice Groups. Meditation III: Participatory Democracy in Enemy Territory. Audiences, Dissemination, and Contexts: Rereading "War in the Woods." Rhetoric and Social Change in a Postmodern Context.
Biography
DeLuca, Kevin Michael
