Global Rhetorics of Science
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2023
254 pages
978-1-4384-9444-9 (ISBN)
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Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.
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Lynda C. Olman is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Sins against Science: The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and Others, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
List of Illustrations
Preface In Memorium: Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, Ethnomathematics, and Rhetoric Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reconfiguring Global Rhetorics of Science
Lynda C. Olman
1. How Euro-American Science Became Dominant: Transnational Circulations of Knowledge and Capital
Kelly Happe and Lynda C. Olman
2. The Shifting Rhetoric of Environmental Science in Australia: Acknowledging First Nations People and Country
Emilie Ens, Shaina Russell, Bridget Campbell, Sabina Rysnik-Steck, Monica Fahey, Patrick Cooke, Renee Cawthorne, and Daniel Sloane
3. African Sciences and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the West African Ebola Crisis
Toluwani Oloke and Olusegun Soetan
4. A Critical Contextualized Approach to Studying Clashing Risk Cultures: Mapping the Transcultural Environmental Risk Communication of PM2.5 in China
Huiling Ding and Jianfen Chen
5. Where Voyaging Ends: Social Cosmology on Rapa Nui
Francisco Nahoe
6. Celtic Geometric Art as a Visual Rhetoric of Science
Evelyn Dsouza
7. This Is a Viral Story about Viral Stories: Image and Graphical Power in COVID Communication in the Navajo Nation
Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi, Julianne Newmark, and Joseph Bartolotta
8. A Rhetoric of the Home Ground: Local Knowledge and Data-Gathering among the North Atlantic Glaciers
Ryan Eichberger
Bibliography
Contributor Biographies
Index
Preface In Memorium: Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, Ethnomathematics, and Rhetoric Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reconfiguring Global Rhetorics of Science
Lynda C. Olman
1. How Euro-American Science Became Dominant: Transnational Circulations of Knowledge and Capital
Kelly Happe and Lynda C. Olman
2. The Shifting Rhetoric of Environmental Science in Australia: Acknowledging First Nations People and Country
Emilie Ens, Shaina Russell, Bridget Campbell, Sabina Rysnik-Steck, Monica Fahey, Patrick Cooke, Renee Cawthorne, and Daniel Sloane
3. African Sciences and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the West African Ebola Crisis
Toluwani Oloke and Olusegun Soetan
4. A Critical Contextualized Approach to Studying Clashing Risk Cultures: Mapping the Transcultural Environmental Risk Communication of PM2.5 in China
Huiling Ding and Jianfen Chen
5. Where Voyaging Ends: Social Cosmology on Rapa Nui
Francisco Nahoe
6. Celtic Geometric Art as a Visual Rhetoric of Science
Evelyn Dsouza
7. This Is a Viral Story about Viral Stories: Image and Graphical Power in COVID Communication in the Navajo Nation
Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi, Julianne Newmark, and Joseph Bartolotta
8. A Rhetoric of the Home Ground: Local Knowledge and Data-Gathering among the North Atlantic Glaciers
Ryan Eichberger
Bibliography
Contributor Biographies
Index
