Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life Ecological Approaches /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McGreavy, Bridie (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wells, Justine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), McHendry, Jr., George F. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Senda-Cook, Samantha (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
• Subjects: Communication.; Environmental sciences.; Environmental Communication.; Media and Communication.

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 relation...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Rhetoric's Ecologies: Introduction to Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life; Justine Wells, Bridie McGreavy, Samantha Senda-Cook, & George F. McHendry, Jr..- Section I. Returning to Change.- 2. Trophic and Tropic Dynamics: An Ecological Perspective of Tropes; Diane Keeling & Jennifer Prairie
• 3. Towards Ecosophy in a Participating World: Rhetoric and Cosmology in Heidegger's Fourfold and Empedocles' Four Roots; Thomas Rickert.- Section II. Ecological Engagements.- 4. Intertidal Poetry: Making Our Way Through Change; Bridie McGreavy.- 5. Walking in the City: The Arrival of the Rhetorical Subject; John Ackerman.- 6. (Re)Arranging Regional Rhetorics; Joshua P. Ewalt.- Section III. Ethical Attunements.- 7. Better Footprints; Nathaniel Rivers.- 8. Making Worlds with Cyborg Fish; Caroline Gottschalk Druschke & Candice Rai.- 9. Embodying Resistance: A Rhetorical Ecology of The Full Cycle Supper; Samantha Senda-Cook & George F. McHendry, Jr..- Section IV. Justice and Care
• 10. The Most Nuclear-Bombed Place: Ecological Implications of the U.S. Nuclear Testing Program; Danielle Endres
• 11. Toward a Geopoetical Rhetoric: The "Transborder Immigrant Tool" and Material Tactics; Anthony Stagliano
• 12. Stabilizing Energies: Intersections between Energy Promotion Texts and Rhetorical Theory; Brian Cozen.