Under pressure : coal industry rhetoric and neoliberalism

• 作者： Schneider, Jen, author.
• 其他作者：
  • Schwarze, Steve, author.
  • Bsumek, Peter K., author.
  • Peeples, Jennifer, author.
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• 其他題名：
  • Palgrave studies in media and environmental communication.
• 出版： London : Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Palgrave studies in media and environmental communication
• 主題： Coal trade--Communication. , Coal trade--Environmental aspects. , Coal mines and mining. , Energy policy. , Coal trade--United States. , Business communication. , Public relations. , Cultural and Media Studies. , Media and Communication. , Climate Change Management and Policy. , Communication Studies. , Climate Change. , Energy Policy, Economics and Management. , Corporate Communication/Public Relations.
• ISBN： 9781137533159 (electronic bk.) 、 9781137533142 (paper)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: 1.Coal Under Pressure -- 2.Industrial Apocalyptic -- 3.Corporate Ventriloquism -- 4.Technological Shell Game -- 5.Hypocrite's Trap -- 6.Energy Utopia -- 7.Coal and the Contradictions of Neoliberalism.
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• 摘要註: This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite's trap, and energy utopia. The authors argue that these strategies appeal to and reinforce neoliberalism, a discourse and set of practices that privilege market rationality and individual freedom and responsibility above all else. As the coal industry has become the leading target and leverage point for those seeking more aggressive action to mitigate climate change, their corporate advocacy may foreshadow rhetorical strategies available to other fossil fuel industries as they manage similar economic and cultural shifts. The authors' analysis of coal's corporate advocacy also identifies contradictions and points of vulnerability in the organized resistance to climate action as well as the larger ideological formation of neoliberalism. Jen Schneider is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Boise State University, USA. Her work examines the communication of scientific, technological, and environmental controversies. She is particularly interested in controversial or contested energy development and practices, such as hydrofracturing, coal mining, and nuclear power, and the role of rhetoric and expertise in defending such practices. Steve Schwarze is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Montana, USA. His research examines the rhetoric of environmental controversies. His research appears in prominent outlets for rhetoric and environmental communication, such as the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs and Environmental Communication. Peter K. Bsumek is Associate Professor in the School of Communication Studies at James Madison University, USA. His research and teaching focus on rhetoric, advocacy, and processes of decision-making, with a spe
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