Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster - (Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric) by Jeremy R Grossman (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- This book grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters and explores how we remember natural disasters by analyzing how we try to prevent them.
- About the Author: Jeremy R. Grossman holds a PhD in communication studies and currently teaches classes at the University of Maryland.
- 194 Pages
- Language + Art + Disciplines, Rhetoric
- Series Name: Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
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About the Book
This book grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters and explores how we remember natural disasters by analyzing how we try to prevent them.Book Synopsis
This book grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters and explores how we remember natural disasters by analyzing how we try to prevent them.
Review Quotes
"Jeremy R. Grossman's fascinating account of how predictive practices prefigure memories of unnatural disasters will enthrall and enlighten scholars of rhetoric, public memory, and science and technology studies alike."
"Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster offers a novel and timely take on the rhetoric of memory and memorialization in the context of disaster rhetorics. It skillfully weaves psychoanalytic concepts together with detailed case studies concerning disaster preparedness in the United States while navigating several complex theoretical topical domains. Combining insights drawn from the rhetoric of science and technology with psychoanalytic and genealogical concepts on the function of memory, history, and governance, this work is especially pertinent given the ever-intensifying exigence of the climate crisis and its disproportionate effects on raced populations marginalized by crumbling infrastructure, systemic inequality, and manufactured precarity."
About the Author
Jeremy R. Grossman holds a PhD in communication studies and currently teaches classes at the University of Maryland.
