Overview

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 and environmentalists a window into the complex and often contradictory arena of discourse on sustainability.

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Author:   Peter N. Goggin (Arizona State University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   v. 1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9780415800419

ISBN 10:   0415800412
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   08 June 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Peter Goggin 1 Rhetorical Techne, Local Knowledge, and Challenges in Contemporary Activism Elenore Long 2 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 3 Creating a Rhetorical Space for Biodiversity: The Great Smokey Mountains Association Elizabeth Giddens 4 The Vision or the View: Cape Wind and the Rhetoric of Sustainable Energy Kimberly Moekle 5 The Nine Mile Canyon Coalition: Rhetorical Landscapes, Responsible Public Land Use Lynda McNeil 6 From Oral Tradition to Legal Documents: Words to Protect the Headwaters of the San Antonio River Sally E. Said 7 Acquiring Biospheric Literacy: Discursive Tools, Situated Learning and the Rhetoric of Use Anne Faith Mareck 8 Alone on the Ark: Al Gore Reconstructed in An Inconvenient Truth Jeff Bergin 9 Adventure Narratives and the Ethos of Survival Doug Christensen 10 Fixing Locke: Civil Liberties on a Finite Planet Eric Zencey 11 Toward Sustainable Literacies: From Representational to Recreational Rhetorics David M. Grant Contributors Index

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The freshness of the outlook offered by the contributors is matched by the range of their methods and topics and the inventiveness of their observations and conclusions. -- M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Rhetoric Review

"""The freshness of the outlook offered by the contributors is matched by the range of their methods and topics and the inventiveness of their observations and conclusions."" -- M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Rhetoric Review ""Collectively, the essays offer a clearer definition of the potentialities and problems associated with the nebulous term sustainability by offering humanities scholars places to hang their hats, so to speak, within interdisciplinary spaces addressing the topic of sustainability."" -- Lynée Lewis Gaillet, College Composition and Communication"

Author Information

Peter N. Goggin is associate professor of English at Arizona State University and is author of Professing Literacy in Composition Studies.

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