Rhetorical Techne, Local Knowledge, and Challenges in Contemporary Activism

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Abstract

As different as the rhetoric of environmentalism and urban community action seem to be, they speak to the fi eld’s growing interest in activism and public engagement. They are also struggling with a shared couple of questions: how to elicit and validate local knowledge alongside discourseswhether discourses of policy, science or bureaucracy-that tend to dismiss it, and how to combine local knowledge with impact that is at once transformative and sustainable.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationRhetorics, Literacies, and Narratives of Sustainability
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages13-38
Number of pages26
ISBN (Electronic)9781135275686
ISBN (Print)9780415800419
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2011

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Social Sciences
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • General Environmental Science

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