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This collection applies critical communication methods and perspectives to examine how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day water crises as matters of social justice. Case examples consider oratory, mass demonstration, deliberation, testimony, and other rhetorical appeals.
Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluence examines how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day water crises as matters of social justice, through oratory, mass demonstration, deliberation, testimony, and other rhetorical appeals. This book applies critical communication methods and perspectives to interrogate the pressing yet mind-boggling dilemma currently faced in environmental studies and policy: that clean water, the very stuff of life, which flows freely from the tap in affluent areas, is also denied to huge populations, materially and fluidly exemplifying the currents of justice, liberty, and equity. Contributors highlight discourse and water justice movements in nonofficial spheres from activists, artists, and the grassroots. In extending the technical, economic, moral, and political conversations on water justice, this collection applies special focus on the novel rhetorical concepts and responses not necessarily unique to but especially enacted in water justice situations. Scholars of rhetoric, sociology, activism, communication, and environmental studies will find this book particularly useful.
Introduction: Stirring the Waters: Justice, Injustice, and the Springs of Rhetorical ResponseChapter 1: Water is Life: Shared DestiniesChapter 2: When Water is Energy: Tracing Mediatized Discourses in Chile’s Mega-Hydro DebateChapter 3: Culture-Jam or Log-Jam?: Rhetorics of Spectacle Protest in the Free the Snake FlotillaChapter 4: Reimagining Dam Removal to Resist Settler Colonial Logics, Chapter 5: Water for the “Community” Good: Contested Meanings of Stakeholder Interests in Great Lakes Water Diversion ControversiesChapter 6: Kansas and the Ogallala Aquifer: Greenwashing Attempts to Balance Water Conservation with Free Market PrinciplesChapter 7: Naturalizing Environmental Injustice: How Privileged Residents Make Sense of Detroit’s Water ShutoffsChapter 8: Reviving Sister Water: Hydro-Anthropomorphism, Catholic Social Justice, and Pope Francis’ Eco-Rhetoric for the Care of CreationChapter 9: Copious Dwelling in a Sinking LandscapeChapter 10: It’s All Child’s Play: Flint’s Water Crisis, Environmental Justice, and Little Miss Flint’s Ephebic Rhetorics Chapter 11: Environmental Crises and Hydrosocial Networks: Using Online Discontent to Promote Water Justice in ShanghaiChapter 12: Sun, Sand, and Satire: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Great Barrier Reef’s Obituary, Chapter 13: Grievable Water: Mourning the Animas RiverChapter 14: Singing Across the Sea: The Challenge of Communicating Marine Noise PollutionChapter 15: The Human Rights of a River: Codifying the PosthumanChapter 16: Preventing Another Great Garbage Patch: Attuning to an Ecospheric Rhetoric