Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3031890744 ISBN 13 : 9783031890741

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

Synopsis

This book examines how scientists around the world embrace their responsibility as citizens, and how science is being used and abused by non-scientists in public spaces. As right-wing politicians, conspiracy theorists, and modern robber barons assault science in the current moment, it is time for the rhetoric of science to reconceptualize itself as a crisis/care discipline. The essays in this volume help us do that by scrutinizing particular cases of science activism, examining the public modalities of resistance that scientists are increasingly taking up as they modify their public engagement to fit evolving rhetorical situations. These essays also reveal how the authority of science is being distorted and exploited by non-experts in ways that are more dangerous than ever in the shadow of climate change and global pandemics. The book ends with a look at new possibilities for collaboration between local communities and scientists and a reflection on how a rhetorical conception of ethos can help us comprehend the negotiation of asymmetries between experts and laypeople in the current era.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pamela Pietrucci is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Leah Ceccarelli is Professor of Communication at the University of Washington, in Seattle, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3031890744
• ISBN 13: 9783031890741
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 315
• Éditeur: Pietrucci Pamela, Ceccarelli Leah
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