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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454741103321

Autore

Biesecker Barbara A

Titolo

Addressing postmodernity [[electronic resource] ] : Kenneth Burke, rhetoric, and a theory of social change / / Barbara A. Biesecker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8173-8259-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 p.)

Collana

Studies in rhetoric and communication

Disciplina

801.95092

809.9113

809/.9113

Soggetti

Postmodernism (Literature)

Rhetoric

Literature and society

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

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 (p. 103-120) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Entering the Fray; 2. Reading Ontology in A Grammar of Motives; 3. A Rhetoric of Motives, or Toward an Ontology of the Social; 4. Further Speculations on the Dialectic: The Rhetoric of Religion; 5. From Communicative Action to Rhetorical Invention; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Biesecker reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change.In Addressing Postmodernity, Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of symbols.  In discerning the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of human beings and rhetoric in it, Biesecker turns to the seminal work of Kenneth Burke.Through a close reading of Burke's major works, A Grammar of Motives, A Rhetoric of M



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962883803321

Titolo

Food practices in transition : changing food consumption, retail and production in the age of reflexive modernity / / edited by Gert Spaargaren, Peter Oosterveer, and Anne Loeber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-136-48543-0

1-136-48544-9

0-203-13592-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in sustainability transitions ; ; 3

Altri autori (Persone)

SpaargarenGert

OosterveerPeter

LoeberAnne

Disciplina

338.1

Soggetti

Food industry and trade

Food industry and trade - Environmental aspects

Food consumption

Agricultural ecology

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

Food Practices in Transition Changing Food Consumption, Retail and Production in the Age of Reflexive Modernity; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Sustainability Transitions in Food Consumption, Retail and Production; PART I: Transitions In Consumer Practices; 2 Changing Governments, Kitchens, Supermarkets, Firms and Farms: The Governance of Transitions Between Societal Practices and Supply Systems; 3 Healthy, Safe and Sustainable: Consumers and the Public Debate on Food in Europe and the Netherlands Since 1945

4 Beyond the Industrial Paradigm? Consumers and Trust in Food5 Political Consumerism and the Transition Towards a More Sustainable Food Regime: Looking Behind and Beyond the Organic Shelf; PART II: Transitions In Retail; 6 Green Consumption Practices and Emerging Sustainable Food Regimes: The Role Of Consumers; 7 Restructuring Food Supply: Sustainability and Supermarkets; 8 The Role of Regime



Actors in Sustainability Transitions: An Application of the MLP Methodology in the Dutch Food Sector; PART III: Transitions In Production Practices

9 Reshaping the Foodscape: The Role of Alternative Food Networks10 Reflexive Design for Sustainable Animal Husbandry: Mediating Between Niche and Regime; 11 Out of the Factory and Into the Fish Pond: Can Certification Transform Vietnamese Pangasius?; 12 Food Systems Under Pressure: Regulatory Instabilities and the Challenge of Sustainable Development; 13 Food Futures in the Making; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This edited volume presents and reflects upon empirical evidence of "sustainability"-induced and -related transition in food practices. The material collected in the various chapters contributes to our understanding of the ways in which ideas and preferences, sociotechnological developments and changes in the governance of food interact and become visible in practices of consumption, retail and production."--