Environmental rhetoric and ecologies of place / / edited by Peter N. Goggin

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 577
• Soggetto topico: Communication in ecology; Communication in the environmental sciences
• Altri autori: GogginPeter N
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Places We Dig (Mine); 1 A Certain Uncertainty: Drilling Into the Rhetoric of the Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Development; 2 Eco-Seeing a Tradition of Colonization: Revealing Shadow Realities of Marcellus Drilling; 3 Sense of Place, Identity, and Cultural Continuity in an Arizona Community; 4 Mt. Taylor, New Mexico: Efforts to Provide Resilience to a Sacred Mountain Socio-Ecological System; PART II Places We Build and Create; 5 A Land Ethic for Urban Dwellers ; 6 "We Face East": The Narragansett Dawn and Ecocentric Discourses of Identity and Justice7 Conjuring the Farm: Constructing Agricultural Places in U.S. Schools; 8 Digital Cities: Rhetorics of Place in Environmental Video Games; PART III Places We Travel Through, Around, and Within; 9 Reading the Atlas of the Patagonian Sea: Toward a Visual-Material Rhetorics of Environmental Advocacy; 10 A Place of One's Own; 11 Local Flaneury: Losing and Finding One's Place; PART IV Places of Resistance and Acceptance; 12 From Concept to Action: Do Environmental Regulations Promote Sustainability? ; 13 Mapping Literacies: Land-Use Planning and the Sponsorship of Place14 Place-Identity and the Socio-Spatial Environment; Afterword; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: <P>Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience - the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society. This book explores some of the complex relationships, collaborations, compromises, and contradictions between human endeavor and situated discourses, identities and landscapes, social justice and natural resources, movement and geographies, unpacking and grappling with the complexities of rhetoric of presence. Making a s
• Titolo autorizzato: Environmental rhetoric and ecologies of place
• ISBN: 1-135-92272-1; 1-138-69627-7; 0-203-54941-4; 1-135-92265-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824338003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication