Danielle Endres
Biographic Data
| ID | 298291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danielle Endres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Endres |
| SIGNATURE | ENDRES D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6532-2524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Integrating climate justice into climate action planning: A case study of equity-based climate action planning at the University of Utah
Purpose Climate action planning (CAP) is an important tool for universities to adopt mitigation targets and develop climate adaptation and resilience. This paper aims to offer a case study of climate action equity planning at a university in the USA and discusses the challenges and opportunities for centering equity and justice within CAP in higher education. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a mixed quantitative and qualitative method …
Speculative Feasibility: Future Narratives and Discursive Infrastructure in Puerto Rico's Nuclear Alternative Project
This essay analyzes the Nuclear Alternative Project (NAP), a nonprofit advocacy effort to build the case for powering Puerto Rico's future with nuclear energy. NAP's textual materials situate nuclear energy as a neglected source that, if taken seriously, supported, and categorized as green, would emerge as a viable electricity generation source. While NAP reveals ways nuclear energy is not currently viable for Puerto Rico, it also builds a narrat…
Nuclear zelus: Climate-oriented imaginaries among nuclear energy professionals
This essay engages rhetorics of zeal, a common genre of contemporary discourse that merits further study. To focus on a representative example, we draw from multi-sited rhetorical fieldwork at nuclear science conferences and supplementary texts, examining the rhetoric of nuclear professionals’ zealous advocacy of nuclear power as a response to climate change and energy poverty. A common set of arguments appears throughout our texts: jealousy or e…
Engaging complex temporalities in environmental rhetoric
In this essay, we identify a temporal turn in environmental rhetoric. As field researchers, we have experienced different senses of time bumping against one another in intercultural, ecological situations. Although these micro-experiences of time provide a constant grounding for our lives, we are also aware of the macro-expressions of time and the ways that they order our world and understanding of environmental degradation. We detail three inter…
Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico
As we write this, California is being ravaged by the second worst wildfire in its history (Dixie) and our fellow Utahns have experienced some of the world's worst air quality due, in part, to the smoke traveling east from the Dixie and other fires in the west. These consequences are just a few of the many ways in which the ongoing climate crisis is a threat multiplier: worsening extreme weather, droughts, wildfires, and, most significantly, the d…
This Land is Our Land: Protesting to Protect Places on the Margin
In 2008 Tim DeChristopher illegally bid on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) parcels offered for energy exploration leases near National Parks in Utah. DeChristopher and his supporters founded Peaceful Uprising, a climate justice movement, in response to his actions. We analyze mediated news coverage and in situ rhetoric gathered via rhetorical fieldwork to examine the ways that Peaceful Uprising combined place-based rhetoric and place-as rhetoric …
Decolonizing Settler Public Address: The Role of Settler Scholars
We argue that decolonization must be a future direction for the study of rhetoric and public address. Settler rhetoricians must not only recognize that the field is founded on settler colonialism but also commit to an ongoing process of unsettling the field and making both mundane and extraordinary tangible engagements with decolonization. What the field needs is to begin charting a path for all rhetoricians to participate with decolonization str…
Energy Communication: Theory and Praxis Towards a Sustainable Energy Future
This essay comments and expands upon an emerging area of research, energy communication, that shares with environmental communication the fraught commitment to simultaneously study communication as an ordinary yet potentially transformative practice, and a strategic endeavour to catalyse change. We begin by defining and situating energy communication within ongoing work on the discursive dimensions of energy extraction, production, distribution, …
Readings in Rhetorical Fieldwork
Communicating Energy in a Climate (of) Crisis
We review energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication studies that examines the role of energy in society, and argue that it is dominated by a crisis frame. Whereas this frame can be productive, it can also be limiting. In response, we propose three areas for future energy communication research—internal rhetoric of science, comparative studies, and energy in everyday life—as starting points for rethinking and expanding energy com…
Contemplating the Participatory Turn in Rhetorical Criticism
This essay concludes the special issue on the intersections between qualitative and rhetorical inquiry by responding to each of the essays. We highlight the productive tensions between rhetorical and qualitative inquiry, examine the benefits that qualitative inquiry brings to rhetorical fieldwork while also revealing how rhetorical inquiry can contribute to qualitative inquiry. We ultimately argue that rhetorical fieldwork is form of transdiscipl…
In Situ Rhetoric: Intersections Between Qualitative Inquiry, Fieldwork, and Rhetoric
This special issue examines intersections between qualitative and rhetorical inquiry through (re)introducing rhetorical fieldwork. We define rhetorical fieldwork as a set of approaches that integrate rhetorical and qualitative inquiry toward the examination of in situ practices and performances in a rhetorical field. This set of approaches falls within the participatory turn in rhetorical studies, in which rhetorical scholars increasingly turn to…
Communicating Nuclear Power: A Programmatic Review
Civil and commercial nuclear power production is a material and discursive phenomenon posing theoretical and practical questions warranting further attention by communication scholars. We provide a brief discursive history of nuclear power, followed by a review of scholarship in communication and related disciplines. We then examine five areas for further research: (a) the fragmentation of technocratic and public discourses; (b) regulation and go…
American Indian Permission for Mascots: Resistance or Complicity within Rhetorical Colonialism
In 2005 the National Collegiate Athletic Association banned the use of American Indian symbols such as mascots, nicknames, and imagery in postseason sporting events. However, several universities successfully appealed this decision by demonstrating permission from eponymous American Indian nations. The focus of this essay is on the rhetorical implications of this permission argument within American Indian rhetoric about American Indian mascots, n…
Sacred Land or National Sacrifice Zone: The Role of Values in the Yucca Mountain Participation Process
Local participation in environmental decision making is a fundamental tenet of environmental justice. This essay examines the participation process for nuclear waste siting decisions and suggests that the lack of a viable means for discussion of competing values is a flaw in the currently used model of participation. Through analysis of the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste site in the USA, I show how the lack of discussion of values occlud…
Environmental Oral History
From those involved in the emergence of the modern environmental movement in the United States to those engaged in contemporary environmental controversies, there is a wealth of people who participated in and experienced these historical moments in the story of environmentalism. The stories of these people can provide new perspectives and windows into environmental issues and controversies, which are often only documented through newspaper articl…
Location Matters: The Rhetoric of Place in Protest
Social movements often deploy place rhetorically in their protests. The rhetorical performance and (re)construction of places in protest can function in line with the goals of a social movement. Our essay offers a heuristic framework—place in protest—for theorizing the rhetorical force of place and its relationship to social movements. Through analysis of a variety of protest events, we demonstrate how the (re)construction of place may be conside…
Research as a Transdisciplinary Networked Process: A Metaphor for Difference-Making Research
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLeah Sprain Leah Sprain is Assistant Professor at Colorado State University Danielle Endres Danielle Endres is Assistant Professor at University of Utah Tarla Rai Petersen Tarla Rai Petersen is Professor and Boone & Crockett Chair at Texas A & M
Science and Public Participation: An Analysis of Public Scientific Argument in the Yucca Mountain Controversy
While they make valuable and significant theoretical moves, new models of public participation in environmental decision making may not help publics navigate within traditional models of public participation. In this essay, the author builds from Kinsella's (2004) concept of public expertise and examines what she calls public scientific argument. Through an examination of the Yucca Mountain site authorization public comment period, the author ana…
The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision
Nuclear colonialism is a system of domination through which governments and corporations disproportionately target and devastate indigenous peoples and their lands to maintain the nuclear production process. Though nuclear colonialism is an historically and empirically verifiable phenomenon, previous studies do not attend to how nuclear colonialism is perpetuated through discourse. In this essay, I argue that nuclear colonialism is significantly …
The Imperative of Praxis-based Environmental Communication Research: Suggestions from the Step It Up 2007 National Research Project
In this essay, we discuss our development and implementation of a national research project on the Step It Up 2007 campaign calling for political action to mitigate climate change. Specifically, we discuss this project as it relates to our goal to engage in praxis-based research that can be accessible to activists, publics, and practitioners. First, we discuss the practice of organizing a national praxis-oriented research project. We offer this p…
Effects of Campaign-to-User and Text-Based Interactivity in Political Candidate Campaign Web sites
The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision
Nuclear colonialism is a system of domination through which governments and corporations disproportionately target and devastate indigenous peoples and their lands to maintain the nuclear production process. Though nuclear colonialism is an historically and empirically verifiable phenomenon, previous studies do not attend to how nuclear colonialism is perpetuated through discourse. In this essay, I argue that nuclear colonialism is significantly …
Location Matters: The Rhetoric of Place in Protest
Social movements often deploy place rhetorically in their protests. The rhetorical performance and (re)construction of places in protest can function in line with the goals of a social movement. Our essay offers a heuristic framework—place in protest—for theorizing the rhetorical force of place and its relationship to social movements. Through analysis of a variety of protest events, we demonstrate how the (re)construction of place may be conside…
In Situ Rhetoric: Intersections Between Qualitative Inquiry, Fieldwork, and Rhetoric
This special issue examines intersections between qualitative and rhetorical inquiry through (re)introducing rhetorical fieldwork. We define rhetorical fieldwork as a set of approaches that integrate rhetorical and qualitative inquiry toward the examination of in situ practices and performances in a rhetorical field. This set of approaches falls within the participatory turn in rhetorical studies, in which rhetorical scholars increasingly turn to…
Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico
As we write this, California is being ravaged by the second worst wildfire in its history (Dixie) and our fellow Utahns have experienced some of the world's worst air quality due, in part, to the smoke traveling east from the Dixie and other fires in the west. These consequences are just a few of the many ways in which the ongoing climate crisis is a threat multiplier: worsening extreme weather, droughts, wildfires, and, most significantly, the d…
Effects of Campaign-to-User and Text-Based Interactivity in Political Candidate Campaign Web sites
American Indian Permission for Mascots: Resistance or Complicity within Rhetorical Colonialism
In 2005 the National Collegiate Athletic Association banned the use of American Indian symbols such as mascots, nicknames, and imagery in postseason sporting events. However, several universities successfully appealed this decision by demonstrating permission from eponymous American Indian nations. The focus of this essay is on the rhetorical implications of this permission argument within American Indian rhetoric about American Indian mascots, n…
Decolonizing Settler Public Address: The Role of Settler Scholars
We argue that decolonization must be a future direction for the study of rhetoric and public address. Settler rhetoricians must not only recognize that the field is founded on settler colonialism but also commit to an ongoing process of unsettling the field and making both mundane and extraordinary tangible engagements with decolonization. What the field needs is to begin charting a path for all rhetoricians to participate with decolonization str…
Research as a Transdisciplinary Networked Process: A Metaphor for Difference-Making Research
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLeah Sprain Leah Sprain is Assistant Professor at Colorado State University Danielle Endres Danielle Endres is Assistant Professor at University of Utah Tarla Rai Petersen Tarla Rai Petersen is Professor and Boone & Crockett Chair at Texas A & M
Communicating Energy in a Climate (of) Crisis
We review energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication studies that examines the role of energy in society, and argue that it is dominated by a crisis frame. Whereas this frame can be productive, it can also be limiting. In response, we propose three areas for future energy communication research—internal rhetoric of science, comparative studies, and energy in everyday life—as starting points for rethinking and expanding energy com…
Contemplating the Participatory Turn in Rhetorical Criticism
This essay concludes the special issue on the intersections between qualitative and rhetorical inquiry by responding to each of the essays. We highlight the productive tensions between rhetorical and qualitative inquiry, examine the benefits that qualitative inquiry brings to rhetorical fieldwork while also revealing how rhetorical inquiry can contribute to qualitative inquiry. We ultimately argue that rhetorical fieldwork is form of transdiscipl…
Effects of Campaign-to-User and Text-Based Interactivity in Political Candidate Campaign Web sites
The Imperative of Praxis-based Environmental Communication Research: Suggestions from the Step It Up 2007 National Research Project
In this essay, we discuss our development and implementation of a national research project on the Step It Up 2007 campaign calling for political action to mitigate climate change. Specifically, we discuss this project as it relates to our goal to engage in praxis-based research that can be accessible to activists, publics, and practitioners. First, we discuss the practice of organizing a national praxis-oriented research project. We offer this p…
Science and Public Participation: An Analysis of Public Scientific Argument in the Yucca Mountain Controversy
While they make valuable and significant theoretical moves, new models of public participation in environmental decision making may not help publics navigate within traditional models of public participation. In this essay, the author builds from Kinsella's (2004) concept of public expertise and examines what she calls public scientific argument. Through an examination of the Yucca Mountain site authorization public comment period, the author ana…
The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision
Nuclear colonialism is a system of domination through which governments and corporations disproportionately target and devastate indigenous peoples and their lands to maintain the nuclear production process. Though nuclear colonialism is an historically and empirically verifiable phenomenon, previous studies do not attend to how nuclear colonialism is perpetuated through discourse. In this essay, I argue that nuclear colonialism is significantly …
Research as a Transdisciplinary Networked Process: A Metaphor for Difference-Making Research
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLeah Sprain Leah Sprain is Assistant Professor at Colorado State University Danielle Endres Danielle Endres is Assistant Professor at University of Utah Tarla Rai Petersen Tarla Rai Petersen is Professor and Boone & Crockett Chair at Texas A & M
Environmental Oral History
From those involved in the emergence of the modern environmental movement in the United States to those engaged in contemporary environmental controversies, there is a wealth of people who participated in and experienced these historical moments in the story of environmentalism. The stories of these people can provide new perspectives and windows into environmental issues and controversies, which are often only documented through newspaper articl…
Location Matters: The Rhetoric of Place in Protest
Social movements often deploy place rhetorically in their protests. The rhetorical performance and (re)construction of places in protest can function in line with the goals of a social movement. Our essay offers a heuristic framework—place in protest—for theorizing the rhetorical force of place and its relationship to social movements. Through analysis of a variety of protest events, we demonstrate how the (re)construction of place may be conside…
Sacred Land or National Sacrifice Zone: The Role of Values in the Yucca Mountain Participation Process
Local participation in environmental decision making is a fundamental tenet of environmental justice. This essay examines the participation process for nuclear waste siting decisions and suggests that the lack of a viable means for discussion of competing values is a flaw in the currently used model of participation. Through analysis of the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste site in the USA, I show how the lack of discussion of values occlud…
Communicating Nuclear Power: A Programmatic Review
Civil and commercial nuclear power production is a material and discursive phenomenon posing theoretical and practical questions warranting further attention by communication scholars. We provide a brief discursive history of nuclear power, followed by a review of scholarship in communication and related disciplines. We then examine five areas for further research: (a) the fragmentation of technocratic and public discourses; (b) regulation and go…
American Indian Permission for Mascots: Resistance or Complicity within Rhetorical Colonialism
In 2005 the National Collegiate Athletic Association banned the use of American Indian symbols such as mascots, nicknames, and imagery in postseason sporting events. However, several universities successfully appealed this decision by demonstrating permission from eponymous American Indian nations. The focus of this essay is on the rhetorical implications of this permission argument within American Indian rhetoric about American Indian mascots, n…
Communicating Energy in a Climate (of) Crisis
We review energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication studies that examines the role of energy in society, and argue that it is dominated by a crisis frame. Whereas this frame can be productive, it can also be limiting. In response, we propose three areas for future energy communication research—internal rhetoric of science, comparative studies, and energy in everyday life—as starting points for rethinking and expanding energy com…
Contemplating the Participatory Turn in Rhetorical Criticism
This essay concludes the special issue on the intersections between qualitative and rhetorical inquiry by responding to each of the essays. We highlight the productive tensions between rhetorical and qualitative inquiry, examine the benefits that qualitative inquiry brings to rhetorical fieldwork while also revealing how rhetorical inquiry can contribute to qualitative inquiry. We ultimately argue that rhetorical fieldwork is form of transdiscipl…
In Situ Rhetoric: Intersections Between Qualitative Inquiry, Fieldwork, and Rhetoric
This special issue examines intersections between qualitative and rhetorical inquiry through (re)introducing rhetorical fieldwork. We define rhetorical fieldwork as a set of approaches that integrate rhetorical and qualitative inquiry toward the examination of in situ practices and performances in a rhetorical field. This set of approaches falls within the participatory turn in rhetorical studies, in which rhetorical scholars increasingly turn to…
Energy Communication: Theory and Praxis Towards a Sustainable Energy Future
This essay comments and expands upon an emerging area of research, energy communication, that shares with environmental communication the fraught commitment to simultaneously study communication as an ordinary yet potentially transformative practice, and a strategic endeavour to catalyse change. We begin by defining and situating energy communication within ongoing work on the discursive dimensions of energy extraction, production, distribution, …
Readings in Rhetorical Fieldwork
This Land is Our Land: Protesting to Protect Places on the Margin
In 2008 Tim DeChristopher illegally bid on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) parcels offered for energy exploration leases near National Parks in Utah. DeChristopher and his supporters founded Peaceful Uprising, a climate justice movement, in response to his actions. We analyze mediated news coverage and in situ rhetoric gathered via rhetorical fieldwork to examine the ways that Peaceful Uprising combined place-based rhetoric and place-as rhetoric …
Decolonizing Settler Public Address: The Role of Settler Scholars
We argue that decolonization must be a future direction for the study of rhetoric and public address. Settler rhetoricians must not only recognize that the field is founded on settler colonialism but also commit to an ongoing process of unsettling the field and making both mundane and extraordinary tangible engagements with decolonization. What the field needs is to begin charting a path for all rhetoricians to participate with decolonization str…
Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico
As we write this, California is being ravaged by the second worst wildfire in its history (Dixie) and our fellow Utahns have experienced some of the world's worst air quality due, in part, to the smoke traveling east from the Dixie and other fires in the west. These consequences are just a few of the many ways in which the ongoing climate crisis is a threat multiplier: worsening extreme weather, droughts, wildfires, and, most significantly, the d…
Engaging complex temporalities in environmental rhetoric
In this essay, we identify a temporal turn in environmental rhetoric. As field researchers, we have experienced different senses of time bumping against one another in intercultural, ecological situations. Although these micro-experiences of time provide a constant grounding for our lives, we are also aware of the macro-expressions of time and the ways that they order our world and understanding of environmental degradation. We detail three inter…
Nuclear zelus: Climate-oriented imaginaries among nuclear energy professionals
This essay engages rhetorics of zeal, a common genre of contemporary discourse that merits further study. To focus on a representative example, we draw from multi-sited rhetorical fieldwork at nuclear science conferences and supplementary texts, examining the rhetoric of nuclear professionals’ zealous advocacy of nuclear power as a response to climate change and energy poverty. A common set of arguments appears throughout our texts: jealousy or e…
Integrating climate justice into climate action planning: A case study of equity-based climate action planning at the University of Utah
Purpose Climate action planning (CAP) is an important tool for universities to adopt mitigation targets and develop climate adaptation and resilience. This paper aims to offer a case study of climate action equity planning at a university in the USA and discusses the challenges and opportunities for centering equity and justice within CAP in higher education. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a mixed quantitative and qualitative method …
Speculative Feasibility: Future Narratives and Discursive Infrastructure in Puerto Rico's Nuclear Alternative Project
This essay analyzes the Nuclear Alternative Project (NAP), a nonprofit advocacy effort to build the case for powering Puerto Rico's future with nuclear energy. NAP's textual materials situate nuclear energy as a neglected source that, if taken seriously, supported, and categorized as green, would emerge as a viable electricity generation source. While NAP reveals ways nuclear energy is not currently viable for Puerto Rico, it also builds a narrat…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Rhetoric (11 works) · Rhetorical question (9 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 works)