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Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life

Ecological Approaches

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Editors:
  1. Bridie McGreavy

    1. Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine, Orono, USA

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  2. Justine Wells

    1. Department of English, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA

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  3. George F. McHendry, Jr.

    1. Department of Communication Studies, Creighton University, Omaha, USA

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  4. Samantha Senda-Cook

    1. Department of Communication Studies, Creighton University, Omaha, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Rhetoric’s Ecologies

    • Justine Wells, Bridie McGreavy, Samantha Senda-Cook, George F. McHendry Jr.
    Pages 1-36

  3. Erratum to: Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life

    • Bridie McGreavy, Justine Wells, George F. McHendry Jr., Samantha Senda-Cook
    Pages E1-E1

  5. Ecological Engagements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Intertidal Poetry: Making Our Way Through Change

      • Bridie McGreavy
      Pages 87-115

    3. Walking in the City: The Arrival of the Rhetorical Subject

      • John M. Ackerman
      Pages 117-140

    4. (Re)Arranging Regional Rhetorics

      • Joshua P. Ewalt
      Pages 141-166

  6. Ethical Attunements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Better Footprints

      • Nathaniel A. Rivers
      Pages 169-196

    3. Making Worlds with Cyborg Fish

      • Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Candice Rai
      Pages 197-221

    4. Embodying Resistance: A Rhetorical Ecology of the Full Cycle Supper

      • Samantha Senda-Cook Jr., George F. McHendry Jr.
      Pages 223-250

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 355-368
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine, Orono, USA

    Bridie McGreavy

  • Department of English, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA

    Justine Wells

  • Department of Communication Studies, Creighton University, Omaha, USA

    George F. McHendry, Jr., Samantha Senda-Cook

About the editors

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.



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