Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice

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

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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.

Produktdetails

• Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781793605238
• ISBN-10: 1793605238
• Artikelnr.: 63624404

Autorenporträt

Edited by Casey R. Schmitt; Theresa R. Castor and Christopher S. Thomas - Contributions by Mostafa Aniss; Joshua Trey Barnett; Elizabeth Brunner; Catherine J. Bruns; Theresa R. Castor; Jordan Christiansen; Emilie Falc; Caroline Gottschalk Druschke; Kelsey

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