Toxic Portraits
Resisting Multiple Invisibilities in the Environmental Justice Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9239000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Trey Barnett (0000-0002-6433-4232, University of Utah, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 405-425 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00335630.2015.1005121 |
| OpenAlex | W2131140288 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay conceptualizes “toxic portraits,” close-up, in situ photographs of people in toxically assaulted places. Toxic portraits articulate the multiple invisibilities attending environmental injustice through a series of visible indexical signs. As a result, toxic portraits enable spectators to see the precariousness of life as dramatized in human relationships to the environments in which we live. Drawing on the “subjunctive voice of the visual” as a rhetorical heuristic, I conceptualize the productive space created by toxic portraits and ultimately argue that these images invite an ethically inflected response to the dangers of living in a polluted world
Aesthetics · Art · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Epistemology · Indexicality · Injustice · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Portrait · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Visual arts · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology
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Theorizing Chemical Rhetoric
Toxic Identification
The Story of an Emerging Energy Issue
Politics of Edibility
Tailings and tracings
What’s in the World Is in the Womb
Virgin Lands
Death, racial violence, and communal trauma
The Visual Politics of Environmental Justice
Dissensus Rhetoric in Youth Climate Justice Activism
| Citations per year | 1.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |