Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluence (Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene) - Hardcover

Casey R. Schmitt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1793605211 ISBN 13: 9781793605214

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2020

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Casey R. Schmitt is assistant professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University. Theresa R. Castor is professor and department chair of communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Christopher S. Thomas is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the College at Brockport.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1793605211
• ISBN 13: 9781793605214
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380
• Editor: Casey R. Schmitt, Christopher S. Thomas, Theresa R. Castor