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Using Photovoice To Navigate Social-Ecological Change In Coastal Maine: A Case Study On Visibility, Visuality, And Visual Literacy, Kevin P. Duffy
Using Photovoice To Navigate Social-Ecological Change In Coastal Maine: A Case Study On Visibility, Visuality, And Visual Literacy, Kevin P. Duffy
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Media representations of the environment support specific cultures of viewing that can create expectations about how to observe social-ecological interactions in everyday life. While public perceptions may appear, in some cases, to reflect these normative representations, more critical and participatory approaches to environmental research and management have begun to complicate these representations as they are negotiated through intrapersonal, interpersonal, and group communication. Working from a visual cultural approach that interrogates issues of visibility, visuality, and visual literacy, this dissertation theorizes how coastal residents represent their own observations and experiences of environmental change through photography and what impact their views have …
Greta Thunberg's Disruptions: How Rhetoric Breaks Trained Incapacities To Climate Change, Mackenzie Peacock
Greta Thunberg's Disruptions: How Rhetoric Breaks Trained Incapacities To Climate Change, Mackenzie Peacock
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After her impactful speech at the United Nations (UN) Climate Action Summit in 2019, Greta Thunberg’s performance set the stage for her generation and children as the central actors for the current climate justice Movement. Although Thunberg’s activism and global youth involvement in environmental politics were prominent prior to this speech, there is a need to understand the rhetoric behind Thunberg’s performance in “The World is Waking Up.” Considering her global impact as a young activist, the following thesis is a critical, rhetorical analysis of her UN speech. I examine Thunberg’s rhetoric in this speech and interpret how it produces …