Rhetorics, Literacies, and Narratives of Sustainability

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.

Peter N. Goggin is associate professor of English at Arizona State University and is author of Professing Literacy in Composition Studies.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
Peter Goggin

1 Rhetorical Techne, Local Knowledge, and Challenges in Contemporary Activism
Elenore Long

2 Writing in the Third Space from the Sun: A Pentadic Analysis of Discussion Papers Written for the 7th Session of the UN Forum on Forests (April 16-27, 2007)
Hannah Scialdone-Kimberley and David Metzger

3 Creating a Rhetorical Space for Biodiversity: The Great Smokey Mountains Association
Elizabeth Giddens

4 The Vision or the View: Cape Wind and the Rhetoric of Sustainable Energy
Kimberly Moekle

5 The Nine Mile Canyon Coalition: Rhetorical Landscapes, Responsible Public Land Use
Lynda McNeil

6 From Oral Tradition to Legal Documents: Words to Protect the Headwaters of the San Antonio River
Sally E. Said

7 Acquiring Biospheric Literacy: Discursive Tools, Situated Learning and the Rhetoric of Use
Anne Faith Mareck

8 Alone on the Ark: Al Gore Reconstructed in An Inconvenient Truth
Jeff Bergin

9 Adventure Narratives and the Ethos of Survival
Doug Christensen

10 Fixing Locke: Civil Liberties on a Finite Planet
Eric Zencey

11 Toward Sustainable Literacies: From Representational to Recreational Rhetorics
David M. Grant

Contributors

Index