Rhetorics, Literacies, and Narratives of Sustainability (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)

In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability. Touching on topics including conservation efforts in specific locales; social and political constructions of rhetorical place and space; community literacy; historical and archival analysis of institutional politics, policies, and practices concerning the environment and economic growth and development; town planning and zoning issues; and rhetorics of environmental remediation and sustainability, this collection of essays provides rhetoricians and environmentalists a window into the complex and often contradictory arena of discourse on sustainability.

Peter N. Goggin is associate professor of English at Arizona State University and is author of Professing Literacy in Composition Studies.