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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454570503321

Titolo

Rhetorics, literacies, and narratives of sustainability [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Goggin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-135-27568-8

1-282-17042-2

9786612170423

0-203-87277-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

GogginPeter N

Disciplina

808/.06338

Soggetti

Sustainable development

Community development

Human ecology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rhetorical techne, local knowledge, and challenges in contemporary activism / Elenore Long -- Writing in the third space from the sun : a pentadic analysis of discussion papers written for the 7th session of the UN Forum on Forests (April 16-27, 2007) / Hannah Scialdone-Kimberley and David Metzger -- Creating a rhetorical space for biodiversity : the great smokey mountains association / Elizabeth Giddens -- The vision or the view : Cape wind and the rhetoric of sustainable energy / Kimberly Moekle -- The nine mile Canyon coalition : rhetorical landscapes, responsible public land use / Lynda McNeil -- From oral tradition to legal documents : words to protect the headwaters of the San Antonio River / Sally E. Said -- Acquiring biospheric literacy : discursive tools, situated learning and the rhetoric of use / Anne Faith Mareck -- Alone on the ark : Al Gore reconstructed in an inconvenient truth / Jeff Bergin -- Adventure narratives and the ethos of survival / Doug Christensen -- Fixing locke : civil liberties on a finite planet / Eric Zencey -- Toward sustainable literacies : from representational to recreational rhetorics / David M. Grant.



Sommario/riassunto

In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability. Touching on topics including conservation efforts in specific locales; social and political constructions of rhetorical place and space; community literacy; historical and archival analysis of institutional politics, policies, and practices concerning the environment and economic growth and development; town planning and zoning issues; and rhetorics of environmental remediation and sustainability, this collection of essays provides rhetoricians