{"product_id":"image-politics-the-new-rhetoric-of-environmental-activism-9780805858488","title":"Image Politics The New Rhetoric of Environmental","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis exceptional volume examines “image events” as a rhetorical tactic utilized by environmental activists. Author Kevin Michael DeLuca analyzes widely televised environmentalist actions in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfills fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing and transforming identities, discourses, communities, cultures, and world views. \u003ci\u003eImage Politics\u003c\/i\u003e also exhibits how such events create opportunities for a politics that does not rely on centralized leadership or universal metanarratives. The book presents a rhetoric of the visual for our mediated age as it illuminates new political possibilities currently enacted by radical environmental groups.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapters in the volume cover key areas of environmental activism such as:\u003cbr\u003e*The rhetoric of social movements;\u003cbr\u003e*Imaging social movements;\u003cbr\u003e*Environmental justice groups; and\u003cbr\u003e*Participatory democracy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis book is of interest to scholars and students of rhetoric\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e Preface. Making Waves. \u003cb\u003eMeditation I: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Rhetoric of Social Movements: A Theoretical Diagnostics and Overhaul. Imaging Social Movements. \u003cb\u003eMeditation II: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Possibilities of Nature in a Postmodern Age: The Case of Environmental Justice Groups. \u003cb\u003eMeditation III: \u003c\/b\u003eParticipatory Democracy in Enemy Territory. Audiences, Dissemination, and Contexts: Rereading \"War in the Woods.\" Rhetoric and Social Change in a Postmodern Context.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018452369751,"sku":"9780805858488","price":44.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780805858488.jpg?v=1750776945","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/image-politics-the-new-rhetoric-of-environmental-activism-9780805858488","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}