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Grassroots Diplomacy And Vernacular Law: The Discourse Of Food Sovereignty In Maine, John Welton May 2017

Grassroots Diplomacy And Vernacular Law: The Discourse Of Food Sovereignty In Maine, John Welton

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This thesis studies the discourse of food sovereignty in Maine, a coalition of small-scale farmers, consumers, and citizens building an alternative food system based on a distributed form of production, processing, selling, purchasing, and consumption. This distribution occurs at the municipal level through the enactment of ordinances. Using critical-rhetorical field methods, I argue that the discourse of food sovereignty in Maine develops a ‘constitutive’ rhetoric that composes rural society through affective relationships. Advocates engage the industrial food system to both expose its systemic bias against small-scale farming and construct their own discourse of belonging. Based upon agrarian values such as …


Enregistering Style, Barbara Johnstone Apr 2010

Enregistering Style, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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Some Personal Reflections On Rhetoric And Interdisciplinary, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2008

Some Personal Reflections On Rhetoric And Interdisciplinary, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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Linguistic Strategies And Cultural Styles For Persuasive Discourse, Barbara Johnstone Dec 1988

Linguistic Strategies And Cultural Styles For Persuasive Discourse, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.