Rhetorics, Literacies, and Narratives of Sustainability
Author | : Peter N. Goggin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2011-02-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135275679 |
ISBN-13 | : 113527567X |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.