Environmental Communication

The Ecology of Empire: Capitalism, Sustainability and the Multitude

This essay utilizes Marx's theory of crisis to understand Wal-Mart's recent turn toward green consumerism.

From War to Warning: Chronopolitical Rhetoric in the Global Warming Debate

In this essay I explore possible connections between the rhetoric of time in debates over war and global warming.

Nature and the Simulacrum: (Re)construction, Commodification, and Contestation of Sacred Space in "The Petroglyphs"

This paper explores how nature is systematically (re)created through public discourse in governmental and commercial documents in the case of " Albuquerque Petroglyphs. Baudriallard's simulacra exposes capitalistic and hegemonic ideologies of nature as they are both preconditioned and replicated in discourse.

An Inconvenient Truth: Myth and Multiple Readings in Environmental Rhetoric

Authors:Thomas S. Frentz (Univ of Arkansas, Fayetteville)Thomas Rosteck (University of Kansas, Fayetteville) Abstract:Placing the genres of documentary and jeremiad within the personal heroic myth of Al Gore, we argue that the rhetorical impact of this film transcends any reductive analysis...