Jeremy R Grossman

Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters and explores how we remember natural disasters by analyzing how we try to prevent them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666938937
• ISBN-10: 1666938939
• Artikelnr.: 70062916

Autorenporträt

Jeremy R. Grossman holds a PhD in communication studies and currently teaches classes at the University of Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: On Models and Memory
Chapter 2: Physical Scale Modeling and the Rhetoric of Sublimation
Chapter 3: Standard Project Disasters and Rhetorical Transposition
Chapter 4: Prefiguring Hurricane Katrina and the Rhetoric of "The Big One"
Chapter 5: Predictions of/and the Past