Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluence
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Book
Abstract
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.
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Publisher
Lexington Books
Publication Date
2020
Disciplines
Environmental Sciences
ISBN
978-1793605214
Recommended Citation
Schmitt, Casey R.; Thomas, Christopher S.; and Castor, Theresa R., "Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluence" (2020). Gonzaga Faculty Climate Research Bibliography. 1.
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/ccsebiblio/1
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