The Rhetoric of Oil in the Twenty-First Century (eBook, ePUB)

Government, Corporate, and Activist Discourses
Redaktion: Graves, Heather; Beard, David Edward

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the rhetorical and discursive ways that governments and corporations shape public opinion and public policy and activists attempt to reframe public debates in order to resist corporate framing regarding oil in the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351052122
• Artikelnr.: 56887842

Autorenporträt

Heather Graves is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada David Edward Beard is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Chapter 1. Rhetoric in the Age of Oil: Energy Humanities
and the Discourses of the Petrochemical Industry. Heather Graves and David
Beard. Section One: Euro-American Case Studies Chapter 2. King Coal versus
Prince Petroleo: Imagining Oil, Energy and Transition in Early
Twentieth-Century Britain. Ian Wereley. Chapter 3. Crude Thinking. Gretchen
Bakke. Chapter 4. Rhetorics of Toxicity, Racism, and Religion on the Gulf
Coast: Oil and Environmental Justice in the BP Spill Documentary Films.
Juliette Lapeyrouse-Cherry. Chapter 5. When Water Meets Oil: Rupturing
Rhetoric and Reality in Energy Policy and Climate Science. Josh Wodak.
Chapter 6. The Flaming Faucet as Fracking's Ideographic Synecdoche:
Tracking its Emergence in the Rhetorics of Gasland and the U.S. Natural Gas
Industry. Ross Singer. Section Two: Case Studies in the Global South
Chapter 7. The Birth of a Myth: The Latin American Modern Oil Nation.
Manuel Silva-Ferrer. Chapter 8. Untangling the Myth of "Culture as
Renewable Oil": A Barthesian Exploration of PDVSA La Estancia's Visual
Campaign Transformamos el petróleo en un recurso removable para ti.
Penélope Plaza. Chapter 9. Against All Odds: Oil Culture and the Commodity
Consensus in Argentina's Patagonia. Natalia Barrionuevo and Stefan Peters.
Section Three: A Closer Look at the Oil Sands in Alberta Chapter 10. Still
Ethical Oil: Framing the Alberta Oil Sands. Roberta Laurie. Chapter
11. From Pipeline to Plate: The Domestication of Oil Sands Through Visual
Food Analogies. Adam Thomlison. Chapter 12. Everything You Ever Wanted to
Know About the Alberta Oil Sands (But were Afraid to Ask Jacques Lacan). T.
R. Kover. Chapter 13. "Know-Nothing Foreign Celebrity Millionaires":
Celebrity, Authenticity, and the Sabotage of Civil Discourse in the
Controversy of the Alberta Oil Sands. John Moffatt, Corey Owen, Debora
Rolfes, and Jeanie Wills. Chapter 14. From Persuasion to Manipulation:
Tracing Oil Sands Narratives in the Calgary Herald. Sibo Chen. Chapter 15.
How Not to Stop a Pipeline: A Critique of Activism in the Burnaby Mountain
Protests. Sean Zwagerman.