Under Pressure
Synopsis
This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite's trap, and energy utopia. The authors argue that these strategies appeal to and reinforce neoliberalism, a discourse and set of practices that privilege market rationality and individual freedom and responsibility above all else. As the coal industry has become the leading target and leverage point for those seeking more aggressive action to mitigate climate change, their corporate advocacy may foreshadow rhetorical strategies available to other fossil fuel industries as they manage similar economic and cultural shifts. The authors' analysis of coal's corporate advocacy also identifies contradictions and points of vulnerability in the organized resistance to climate action as well as the larger ideological formation of neoliberalism.
- कॉपीराईट:
- 2016 Springer
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137533159
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 2017-03-21T01:44:28Z
- भाषा:
- English
- श्रेणी:
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.