SUNY series, Studies in Technical Communication

Lynda C. Olman

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781438494449
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Rhetoric
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

With this volume, the field of rhetoric of science joins its sister disciplines in history and philosophy in challenging the dominance of Euro-American science as a global epistemology. The discipline of rhetoric understands world-making and community-building as interdependent activities: that is, if we practice science differently, we do politics differently, and vice versa. This wider aperture seems crucial at a time when we are confronted with the limitations of Euro-American science and politics in managing global risks such as pandemics and climate change—particularly in our most vulnerable communities. The contributors to this volume draw on their familiarity with a wide range of global scientific traditions—from Australian Aboriginal ecology to West African medicine to Polynesian navigation science—to suggest possibilities for reconfiguring the relationship between science and politics to better manage global risks. These possibilities should not only inspire scholars in rhetoric and technical communication but should also introduce readers from science and technology studies to some useful new approaches to the problem of decolonizing scenes of scientific practice around the world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface In Memorium: Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, Ethnomathematics, and Rhetoric
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Reconfiguring Global Rhetorics of Science
• Chapter 1 How Euro-American Science Became Dominant: Transnational Circulations of Knowledge and Capital
• Chapter 2 The Shifting Rhetoric of Environmental Science in Australia: Acknowledging First Nations People and Country
• Chapter 3 African Sciences and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the West African Ebola Crisis
• Chapter 4 A Critical Contextualized Approach to Studying Clashing Risk Cultures: Mapping the Transcultural Environmental Risk Communication of PM2.5 in China
• Chapter 5 Where Voyaging Ends: Social Cosmology on Rapa Nui
• Chapter 6 Celtic Geometric Art as a Visual Rhetoric of Science
• Chapter 7 This Is a Viral Story about Viral Stories: Image and Graphical Power in COVID Communication in the Navajo Nation
• Chapter 8 A Rhetoric of the Home Ground: Local Knowledge and Data-Gathering among the North Atlantic Glaciers
• Bibliography
• Contributor Biographies
• Index
• Back Cover