Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Sep 2016 Open Access

Community Resilience through Public Engagement: A Study of Outreach and Science Communication in a Coastal National Park Site

Jamie Remillard

Abstract

Engaged public science communication can support community resilience as policymakers, resource managers, and citizens come to terms with the effects of environmental disturbances, natural disasters, and climate change. Drawing upon field-based ethnographic research of public-facing outreach and education at Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS), the researcher considers how, in the wake of a catastrophic storm, the evolving ethical science communication and public engagement strategies of park rangers might contribute to and strengthen community resilience. A rhetorical analysis of science communication and interpretive practices at FIIS illuminates some affordances and constraints of rhetorical models of science communication and of pedagogies of play for community-based work.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2016-09-01
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10.59236/rjv16i1pp46-56
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