Lunch Seminar Series: Prof. Jenell Johnson

A Sense of Commonality: The Rhetorical Alchemy of Deep Ecology
STS Lunch Seminar with Jenell Johnson
Associate Professor, Communication Arts
March 24, 12:30-1:30 pm, Zoom

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In this talk, taken from her book project On Behalf of Life: Bioidentification and Vital Advocacy, Jenell Johnson examines how life itself becomes the object of moral consideration and political action. Looking at environmental rhetoric associated with the deep ecology movement, Johnson explores the potential of life as a means of identification between human and other-than-human worlds, as well as the danger of setting life itself as an ultimate term.

Additional reading:

Rhetorical Recommendations Built on Ecological Experience: A Reassessment of the Challenge of Environmental Communication

“A man’s mouth is his castle”: The midcentury fluoridation controversy and the visceral public