Olman Global Rhetorics of Science

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9444-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in Technical Communication

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olman, Lynda C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.