Overview

With this volume, the field of rhetoric of science joins its sister disciplines in history and philosophy in challenging the dominance of Euro-American science as a global epistemology. The discipline of rhetoric understands world-making and community-building as interdependent activities: that is, if we practice science differently, we do politics differently, and vice versa. This wider aperture seems crucial at a time when we are confronted with the limitations of Euro-American science and politics in managing global risks such as pandemics and climate change—particularly in our most vulnerable communities. The contributors to this volume draw on their familiarity with a wide range of global scientific traditions—from Australian Aboriginal ecology to West African medicine to Polynesian navigation science—to suggest possibilities for reconfiguring the relationship between science and politics to better manage global risks. These possibilities should not only inspire scholars in rhetoric and technical communication but should also introduce readers from science and technology studies to some useful new approaches to the problem of decolonizing scenes of scientific practice around the world.

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Author:   Lynda C. Olman
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438494432

ISBN 10:   1438494432
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   01 September 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface In Memorium: Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, Ethnomathematics, and Rhetoric Acknowledgments Introduction: Reconfiguring Global Rhetorics of Science Lynda C. Olman 1. How Euro-American Science Became Dominant: Transnational Circulations of Knowledge and Capital Kelly Happe and Lynda C. Olman 2. The Shifting Rhetoric of Environmental Science in Australia: Acknowledging First Nations People and Country Emilie Ens, Shaina Russell, Bridget Campbell, Sabina Rysnik-Steck, Monica Fahey, Patrick Cooke, Renee Cawthorne, and Daniel Sloane 3. African Sciences and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the West African Ebola Crisis Toluwani Oloke and Olusegun Soetan 4. A Critical Contextualized Approach to Studying Clashing Risk Cultures: Mapping the Transcultural Environmental Risk Communication of PM2.5 in China Huiling Ding and Jianfen Chen 5. Where Voyaging Ends: Social Cosmology on Rapa Nui Francisco Nahoe 6. Celtic Geometric Art as a Visual Rhetoric of Science Evelyn Dsouza 7. This Is a Viral Story about Viral Stories: Image and Graphical Power in COVID Communication in the Navajo Nation Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi, Julianne Newmark, and Joseph Bartolotta 8. A Rhetoric of the Home Ground: Local Knowledge and Data-Gathering among the North Atlantic Glaciers Ryan Eichberger Bibliography Contributor Biographies Index

Reviews

"""This book is an invaluable addition to the field by exploring the rhetorical landscape surrounding scientific traditions beyond Western science, including non-Western approaches to communicating about science-related knowledge and examples of cross-cultural communication of science. The examples from the book cover cultures/peoples/knowledges from six continents and two oceans—a pretty amazing spread. This area is understudied but interest in it is booming, so the book is timely."" — Lindy Orthia, Australian National University ""I cannot think of another volume on the rhetoric of science that approaches the subject from a global perspective, especially a perspective that centers indigenous knowledge and decolonial perspectives."" — Donnie Johnson Sackey, University of Texas at Austin"

This manuscript is an invaluable addition to the field by exploring the rhetorical landscape surrounding scientific traditions beyond Western science, including non-Western approaches to communicating about science-related knowledge and examples of cross-cultural communication of science. The examples from the book cover cultures/peoples/knowledges from six continents and two oceans-a pretty amazing spread. This area is understudied but interest in it is booming, so the book is timely. - Lindy Orthia, Australian National University I cannot think of another volume on the rhetoric of science that approaches the subject from a global perspective, especially a perspective that centers indigenous knowledge and decolonial perspectives. - Donnie Johnson Sackey, University of Texas at Austin

"""This manuscript is an invaluable addition to the field by exploring the rhetorical landscape surrounding scientific traditions beyond Western science, including non-Western approaches to communicating about science-related knowledge and examples of cross-cultural communication of science. The examples from the book cover cultures/peoples/knowledges from six continents and two oceans—a pretty amazing spread. This area is understudied but interest in it is booming, so the book is timely."" — Lindy Orthia, Australian National University ""I cannot think of another volume on the rhetoric of science that approaches the subject from a global perspective, especially a perspective that centers indigenous knowledge and decolonial perspectives."" — Donnie Johnson Sackey, University of Texas at Austin"

Author Information

Lynda C. Olman is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Sins against Science: The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and Others, also published by SUNY Press.

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