Rhetoric Review Jul 2022

Bridging the Gap: Speculative Roles of Specific Intellectuals in Climate Justice

John Purfield University of South Carolina

Abstract

The climate change crisis is a matter of increasing concern to rhetoric and composition. Some scholars in the discipline, specifically on the new materialist turn, have engaged and accounted for the damage through methodologies of ontological entanglement and relationality. The potential of ontological accounts to facilitate global activism faces the obstacle of scalar derangement. By acting as Foucauldian specific intellectuals, rhetoric and composition scholars may employ new materialist ontological projects to bridge the gap between local accounts of climatological damage and a global, pluralist assemblage of climate activists.

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Rhetoric Review
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2022-07-03
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10.1080/07350198.2022.2077036
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