Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life

1. Introduction: Rhetoric’s Ecologies
Justine Wells, Bridie McGreavy, Samantha Senda-Cook, George F. McHendry

Part I. Returning to Change

2. Trophic and Tropic Dynamics: An Ecological Perspective of Tropes
Diane M. Keeling, Jennifer C. Prairie

3. Towards Ecosophy in a Participating World: Rhetoric and Cosmology in Heidegger’s Fourfold and Empedocles’ Four Roots
Thomas Rickert

Part 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 M. Ackerman

6. (Re)Arranging Regional Rhetorics
Joshua P. Ewalt

Part III. Ethical Attunements

7. Better Footprints
Nathaniel A. 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

Part IV. Toward Justice and Care

10. The Most Nuclear-Bombed Place: Ecological Implications of the US 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

13. Afterword: Working in an Ecotone
Nathan Stormer

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Environmental Communication, Media and Communication