Image politics : the new rhetoric of environmental activism / Kevin Michael DeLuca.
"From Greenpeace protesters confronting whaling ships to Earth First! activists occupying trees to stop logging, radical environmentalists increasingly rely upon attracting mass media coverage to gain visibility and public support. This book examines the use of "image events" as a rhe...
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New York :
Guilford Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Revisioning rhetoric.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Making Waves
- Ch. 2. The Rhetoric of Social Movements: A Theoretical Diagnostics and Overhaul
- Ch. 3. Imaging Social Movements
- Ch. 4. The Possibilities of Nature in a Postmodern Age: The Case of Environmental Justice Groups
- Ch. 5. Participatory Democracy in Enemy Territory
- Ch. 6. Audiences, Dissemination, and Contexts: Rereading "War in the Woods"
- Ch. 7. Rhetoric and Social Change in a Postmodern Context
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author.