Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life
Ecological Approaches
Editors: McGreavy, B., Wells, J., McHendry, Jr., G.F., Senda-Cook, S. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Demonstrates the value of rhetoric’s multiple material turns for environmental thought and action
- Illustrates the contribution EC makes to the broader material turns in rhetorical and communication theory
- Builds a complex, multi-layered understanding of material life by engaging scholars from varied theoretical and critical traditions around the common theme of ecology
- Forges new avenues of communication among scholars in EC, communication studies, and rhetoric and composition
- Inspires and advances ecological thinking, demonstrating its value for rhetoric and communication as well as for environmental thought and action
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- About this book
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This volume brings together three areas of scholarship and practice: rhetoric, material life, and ecology. The chapters build a multi-layered understanding of material life by gathering scholars from varied theoretical and critical traditions around the common theme of ecology. Emphasizing relationality, connectedness and context, the ecological orientation we build informs both rhetorical theory and environmentalist interventions. Contributors offer practical-theoretical inquiries into several areas - rhetoric’s cosmologies, the trophe, bioregional rhetoric’s, nuclear colonialism, and more - collectively forging new avenues of communication among scholars in environmental communication, communication studies, and rhetoric and composition. This book aims at inspiring and advancing ecological thinking, demonstrating its value for rhetoric and communication as well as for environmental thought and action.
- About the authors
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Bridie McGreavy is Assistant Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine and affiliated faculty with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions.
Justine Wells is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at New Mexico State University.
George F. (Guy) McHendry, Jr.is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Creighton University.
Samantha Senda-Cook is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and affiliated faculty member with the Environmental Science and Sustainability Programs at Creighton University.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction: Rhetoric’s Ecologies
Pages 1-36
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Trophic and Tropic Dynamics: An Ecological Perspective of Tropes
Pages 39-58
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Towards Ecosophy in a Participating World: Rhetoric and Cosmology in Heidegger’s Fourfold and Empedocles’ Four Roots
Pages 59-83
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Intertidal Poetry: Making Our Way Through Change
Pages 87-115
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Walking in the City: The Arrival of the Rhetorical Subject
Pages 117-140
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life
- Book Subtitle
- Ecological Approaches
- Editors
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- Bridie McGreavy
- Justine Wells
- George F. McHendry, Jr.
- Samantha Senda-Cook
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-65711-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-65711-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-65710-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-88087-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 368
- Number of Illustrations
- 9 b/w illustrations
- Topics
