Abstract

In the past decade, industrial wind installations, or what we commonly call wind farms, have proliferated across the U.S. along with talk of a constellation of illness symptoms known as Wind Turbine Syndrome. Despite widespread efforts to debunk claims that wind turbines make people sick, the syndrome has achieved a rhetorical virulence in the deliberative sphere, where it “catches” among residents who live hundreds of miles away from wind turbines. Here, where wind installations exist only in the deliberative imagination, Wind Turbine Syndrome presents as a civic affliction with serious consequences for the trajectory of municipal debate.

Journal
Rhetoric Review
Published
2019-01-02
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2019.1549412
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