دانلود کتاب The Rhetoric of Oil in the Twenty-First Century: Government, Corporate, and Activist Discourses

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1 Introduction: Rhetoric in the Age of Oil: Energy Humanities and the Discourses of the Petrochemical Industry
SECTION I: Euro-American Case Studies
2 King Coal versus Prince Petroleo: Imagining Oil, Energy, and Transition in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
3 Crude Thinking
4 Rhetorics of Toxicity, Racism, and Religion on the Gulf Coast: Oil and Environmental Justice in BP Spill Documentary Films
5 When Water Meets Oil: Rupturing Rhetoric and Reality in Energy Policy and Climate Science
6 The Flaming Faucet as Fracking’s Ideographic Synecdoche: Tracking its Emergence in the Rhetorics of Gasland and the U.S. Natural Gas Industry
SECTION II: Case Studies in the Global South
7 The Birth of a Myth: The Latin American Modern Oil Nation
8 Untangling the Myth of Culture as Renewable Oil: A Barthesian Exploration of PDVSA La Estancia’s Visual Campaign Transformamos el petróleo en un recurso renovable para ti
9 Against All Odds: Oil Culture and the Commodity Consensus in Argentina’s Patagonia
SECTION III: A Closer Look at the Oil Sands in Alberta
10 Still Ethical Oil: Framing the Alberta Oil Sands
11 From Pipeline to Plate: The Domestication of Oil Sands through Visual Food Analogies
12 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Alberta Oil Sands (But Were Afraid to Ask Jacques Lacan)
13 “Know-Nothing Foreign Celebrity Millionaires”: Celebrity, Authenticity, and the Sabotage of Civil Discourse in the Controversy of the Alberta Oil Sands
14 From Persuasion to Manipulation: Tracing Oil Sands Narratives in the Calgary Herald
15 How Not to Stop a Pipeline: A Critique of Activism in the Burnaby Mountain Protests
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