Places and People
Rhetorical Constructions of “Community” in a Canadian Environmental Risk Assessment
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 21192591 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Philippa Spoel (0000-0003-1467-6557, Schlumberger (Ireland), autor de correspondencia), Rebecca Carruthers Den Hoed |
| Año | 2014 |
| Volumen | 8 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 267-285 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2014-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Environmental Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1752-4032 • E-ISSN: 1752-4040 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17524032.2013.850108 |
| OpenAlex | W2062589958 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 5 |
| Referencias citadas | 23 |
This paper addresses the issue of public engagement in environmental risk contexts through a rhetorical analysis of the key term “community” in a risk assessment of mining-caused soil contamination. Drawing on Burke's concept of terministic screens and method of cluster criticism, the analysis shows the divergent constitutions of “community” in the Sudbury Soils Study's official discourse and the citizen-activist rhetoric of the Community Committee on the Sudbury Soils Study. Tracing the verbal and visual clusters within each organization's articulation of “community” as place and people reveals how the official Study's technical-regulatory ideology of environmental risk and citizen participation is countered by the Community Committee's contestatory environmental justice ideology. These competing views of “community” are mutually constitutive in that the official Study's mainstream risk discourse establishes the terms for the Community Committee's reactive counter-discourse, thus limiting citizen participation mainly to questions of “downstream” impacts. Our rhetorical analysis of “community” suggests a generative method for understanding the complex power relations animating specific risk communication contexts as well as for potentially reinventing “community” in terms more conducive to meaningful citizen engagement
Community cohesion · Community engagement · Discourse analysis · Discourse community · Environmental justice · Ideology · Linguistics · Mainstream · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Risk Perception and Management
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| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
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| Citas por año | 0,5 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 5 |