Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice

Casey R. Schmitt is assistant professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University. Theresa R. Castor is professor and department chair of communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Christopher S. Thomas is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the College at Brockport.

Introduction: Stirring the Waters: Justice, Injustice, and the Springs of Rhetorical Response
Chapter 1: Water is Life: Shared Destinies
Chapter 2: When Water is Energy: Tracing Mediatized Discourses in Chile’s Mega-Hydro Debate
Chapter 3: Culture-Jam or Log-Jam?: Rhetorics of Spectacle Protest in the Free the Snake Flotilla
Chapter 4: Reimagining Dam Removal to Resist Settler Colonial Logics,
Chapter 5: Water for the “Community” Good: Contested Meanings of Stakeholder Interests in Great Lakes Water Diversion Controversies
Chapter 6: Kansas and the Ogallala Aquifer: Greenwashing Attempts to Balance Water Conservation with Free Market Principles
Chapter 7: Naturalizing Environmental Injustice: How Privileged Residents Make Sense of Detroit’s Water Shutoffs
Chapter 8: Reviving Sister Water: Hydro-Anthropomorphism, Catholic Social Justice, and Pope Francis’ Eco-Rhetoric for the Care of Creation
Chapter 9: Copious Dwelling in a Sinking Landscape
Chapter 10: It’s All Child’s Play: Flint’s Water Crisis, Environmental Justice, and Little Miss Flint’s Ephebic Rhetorics
Chapter 11: Environmental Crises and Hydrosocial Networks: Using Online Discontent to Promote Water Justice in Shanghai
Chapter 12: Sun, Sand, and Satire: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Great Barrier Reef’s Obituary,
Chapter 13: Grievable Water: Mourning the Animas River
Chapter 14: Singing Across the Sea: The Challenge of Communicating Marine Noise Pollution
Chapter 15: The Human Rights of a River: Codifying the Posthuman
Chapter 16: Preventing Another Great Garbage Patch: Attuning to an Ecospheric Rhetoric