Image Politics
The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism
Kevin Michael DeLuca(Author)
Guilford Publications (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 1999
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-57230-461-1 (ISBN)
Description
From Greenpeace protesters confronting whaling ships to activists occupying trees, radical environmentalists increasingly rely on attracting mass media coverage to gain visibility and public support. This book examines the use of "image events" as a rhetorical tactic, one that often supplants written or spoken arguments. Widely televised environmentalist actions are analyzed in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfils fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing and transforming identities, discourses, communities, cultures and world views.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
502 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57230-461-1 (9781572304611)
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Content
Preface. Making Waves. Meditation I. The Rhetoric of Social Movements: A Theoretical Diagnostics and Overhaul. Imaging Social Movements. Meditation II. The Possiblities of Nature in a Postmodern Age: The Case of Environemntal Justice Groups. Meditation III. Participatory Democracy in Enemy Territory. Audience, Dissemination, and Contexts: Rereading "War in the Woods". Rhetoric and Social Change in a Postmodern Context.