Undermining Risk and Technical Communication: Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis

Author:   Timothy R. Amidon (Colorado State University) ,  Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder (Oregon State University) ,  Daniel P. Richards (Old Dominion University) ,  Donnie Johnson Sackey (University of Texas, Austin)
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9798855807417


Pages:   290
Publication Date:   01 June 2026
Format:   Hardback
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Undermining Risk and Technical Communication: Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis


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Author:   Timothy R. Amidon (Colorado State University) ,  Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder (Oregon State University) ,  Daniel P. Richards (Old Dominion University) ,  Donnie Johnson Sackey (University of Texas, Austin)
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9798855807417


Pages:   290
Publication Date:   01 June 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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""Undermining Risk and Technical Communication extends how TPC scholars can conceptualize risk, moving from discrete moments of disaster to long-term unfolding of hazards for capitalist gains while disproportionately affecting marginalized communities. This book formalizes this conception of risk and provides several concepts that help us read risk and crisis more expansively."" — Ryan Weber, University of Alabama in Huntsville ""This book will change how the field of TPC discusses the origins of the field, its complicated history, its current practices and research projects, and future interventions we commit to fulfilling. It provides a blueprint for doing this work within risk communication, but it also goes beyond that in providing a map for us to think about how we may want to understand our fields' commitment to and actions toward justice-oriented and ethical futures."" — Michelle F. Eble, East Carolina University


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Timothy R. Amidon is Associate Professor and Chair of Professional and Public Writing at the University of Rhode Island. He is editor in chief of Communication Design Quarterly. Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder is Professor of Scientific, Technical and Professional Communication at Oregon State University. He is the author of Communicating Mobility and Technology: A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation and Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis: A Geologic Rhetoric. Daniel P. Richards is Professor of English at Old Dominion University. He is the editor of On Teacher Neutrality: Politics, Praxis, and Performativity and, with Kristen P. Moore, of Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication. Donnie Johnson Sackey is Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space.

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