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Literate Practices: Public Deliberations about Energy and Environmental Risks

George, Barbara E
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent151862509603715

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2018, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Issues of environmental risk and representations of that environmental risk often cross socially constructed borders. These borders are both physical and ideological in nature and emerge in patterns of spoken and written text. This dissertation explores patterns of environmental risk representation within public deliberation about High Volume Hydraulic Fracking (HVHF) in three neighboring states. My research reveals socially situated constraints and affordances surrounding literacies that activist participants navigate in an effort to represent environmental risk as related to the HVHF industry. In this study, I employ rhetorical and critical discourse analysis to highlight public participant constraints. When public participants are stymied in deliberation while using institutional environmental risk participatory mechanisms rooted in industry ideology, I explore, through literacy studies, how participants turned to various counter-literacies informed by precautionary and environmental justice ideologies to represent HVHF environmental risk. I argue that that incorporating precautionary and environmental justice frames signals a shift towards procedural justice, or a focus on encouraging public participant engagement in complex deliberation about their local environments.
Pamela Takayoshi, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Patricia Dunmire, Dr. (Committee Member)
Sara Newman, Dr. (Committee Member)
Emariana Widner, Dr. (Committee Member)
Thomas Schmidlin, Dr. (Other)
291 p.
Composition; Rhetoric
environmental justice, rhetoric, critical discourse analysis, literacy, risk

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  • George, B. E. (2018). Literate Practices: Public Deliberations about Energy and Environmental Risks [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent151862509603715

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • George, Barbara. Literate Practices: Public Deliberations about Energy and Environmental Risks. 2018. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent151862509603715.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • George, Barbara. "Literate Practices: Public Deliberations about Energy and Environmental Risks." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent151862509603715

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