Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life

Bridie McGreavy is Assistant Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine and affiliated faculty with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions.Justine Wells is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at New Mexico State University.George F. (Guy) McHendry, Jr.is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Creighton University.Samantha Senda-Cook is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and affiliated faculty member with the Environmental Science and Sustainability Programs at Creighton University.

• 1.Rhetoric’s Ecologies: Introduction to Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life; Justine Wells, Bridie McGreavy, Samantha Senda-Cook, & George F. McHendry, Jr..- Section I. Returning to Change.- 2. Trophic and Tropic Dynamics: An Ecological Perspective of Tropes; Diane Keeling & Jennifer Prairie.- 3. Towards Ecosophy in a Participating World: Rhetoric and Cosmology in Heidegger's Fourfold and Empedocles' Four Roots; Thomas Rickert.- Section II. Ecological Engagements.- 4. Intertidal Poetry: Making Our Way Through Change; Bridie McGreavy.- 5. Walking in the City: The Arrival of the Rhetorical Subject; John Ackerman.- 6. (Re)Arranging Regional Rhetorics; Joshua P. Ewalt.- Section III. Ethical Attunements.- 7. Better Footprints; Nathaniel Rivers.- 8. Making Worlds with Cyborg Fish; Caroline Gottschalk Druschke & Candice Rai.- 9. Embodying Resistance: A Rhetorical Ecology of The Full Cycle Supper; Samantha Senda-Cook & George F. McHendry, Jr..- Section IV. Justice and Care.- 10. The Most Nuclear-Bombed Place: Ecological Implications of the U.S. Nuclear Testing Program; Danielle Endres.- 11. Toward a Geopoetical Rhetoric: The “Transborder Immigrant Tool” and Material Tactics; Anthony Stagliano.- 12. Stabilizing Energies: Intersections between Energy Promotion Texts and Rhetorical Theory; Brian Cozen.