Perils of a modern Cassandra: Rhetorical aspects of public indifference to the population explosion

Waddell, Craig

doi:10.1080/02691729408578747

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“…The leverage on the scientific "black-box" (Latour 1987) this provides has been pushed further by Waddell (1994aWaddell ( , 1994bWaddell ( , 1997. Waddell (1994b, 300) distinguished four models of "the relationship between experts and the larger community": the "technocratic," the "one-way Jeffersonian," the "interactive Jeffersonian," and the "social constructionist."…”

Section: Rhetoric and The Public Understanding Of Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

The Public Understanding of Science—A Rhetorical Invention

Locke¹

2002

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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This article contributes to the development of a rhetorical approach to the public understanding of science or science literacy. It is argued that rhetoric promises an alternative approach to deficit models that treat people as faulty scientists. Some tensions in the relevant rhetorical literature need resolution. These center on the application to science of an Aristotelian conception of rhetorical reasoning as enthymematic, without breaking from the Platonic/Aristotelian division between technical and public spheres. The former opens science to the potential of public critique; the latter closes this, effectively reinstating a deficit model. Gross’s writings are used to bring this point out sharply. A resolution is proposed, building on a view of rhetoric as socially constitutive and leading to a conception of public understanding as witcraft. Here, Billig’s rhetorical psychology provides the basis for reconfiguring the enthymeme in a manner that construes the division between spheres as itself rhetorically constituted. Creationism is used to provide brief illustration.

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Section: Rhetoric and The Public Understanding Of Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

The Public Understanding of Science—A Rhetorical Invention

Locke¹

2002

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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“…For instance, scholars examine the rhetoric surrounding specific, localized environmental conflicts (Oravec, 1984;Lange, 1993;Moore, 1993;Waddell, 1995 andKatz and Miller, 1996;Trumbo, 2000). Other studies analyze rhetorical strategies of historic and contemporary environmental texts (Waddell, 1994;Killingsworth and Palmer, 1996;Ulman, 1996;Opie and Elliot, 1996;Plevin, 1997;and Bryson, 2003) and the philosophies and rhetoric of environmental groups (Short, 1991;Palmer, 1992 andCooper, 1996). These situational, textual, and organizational studies show the complexity and breadth of environmental debates and writing.…”

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“…Environmental scholars have used various communication models to explore how messages are sent and received (Waddell, 1995;Coppola, 1997). However, two models, one by Killingsworth and Palmer and one by Herndl and Brown, are particularly useful in identifying the main ways the environment has been described and its resources used.…”

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“…Many rhetoric scholars and environmental historians have discussed Silent Spring's rhetorical effectiveness (Killingsworth and Palmer, 1992Opie and Elliot, 1996;Slovic, 1996;Plevin, 1997;Waddell et al, 2000;Bryson, 2003;Murphy, 2005;Matthiessen et aI, 2007). The success of it and The Sea Around Us make Carson an important environmental writer.…”

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