Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice

A Critical Confluence
Herausgeber: Castor, Theresa R.; Thomas, Christopher S.; Schmitt, Casey R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection applies critical communication methods and perspectives to examine how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day water crises as matters of social justice. Case examples consider oratory, mass demonstration, deliberation, testimony, and other rhetorical appeals.

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Produktdetails

• Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9781793605214
• ISBN-10: 1793605211
• Artikelnr.: 58292264

Autorenporträt

Casey R. Schmitt is assistant professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University. Theresa R. Castor is professor and department chair of communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Christopher S. Thomas is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the College at Brockport.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Stirring the Waters: Justice, Injustice, and the Springs of
Rhetorical Response Chapter 1: Water is Life: Shared Destinies Chapter 2:
When Water is Energy: Tracing Mediatized Discourses in Chile's Mega-Hydro
Debate Chapter 3: Culture-Jam or Log-Jam?: Rhetorics of Spectacle Protest
in the Free the Snake Flotilla Chapter 4: Reimagining Dam Removal to Resist
Settler Colonial Logics, Chapter 5: Water for the "Community" Good:
Contested Meanings of Stakeholder Interests in Great Lakes Water Diversion
Controversies Chapter 6: Kansas and the Ogallala Aquifer: Greenwashing
Attempts to Balance Water Conservation with Free Market Principles Chapter
7: Naturalizing Environmental Injustice: How Privileged Residents Make
Sense of Detroit's Water Shutoffs Chapter 8: Reviving Sister Water:
Hydro-Anthropomorphism, Catholic Social Justice, and Pope Francis'
Eco-Rhetoric for the Care of Creation Chapter 9: Copious Dwelling in a
Sinking Landscape Chapter 10: It's All Child's Play: Flint's Water Crisis,
Environmental Justice, and Little Miss Flint's Ephebic Rhetorics Chapter
11: Environmental Crises and Hydrosocial Networks: Using Online Discontent
to Promote Water Justice in Shanghai Chapter 12: Sun, Sand, and Satire: A
Rhetorical Analysis of the Great Barrier Reef's Obituary, Chapter 13:
Grievable Water: Mourning the Animas River Chapter 14: Singing Across the
Sea: The Challenge of Communicating Marine Noise Pollution Chapter 15: The
Human Rights of a River: Codifying the Posthuman Chapter 16: Preventing
Another Great Garbage Patch: Attuning to an Ecospheric Rhetoric