Introduction. Hydraulic fracturing and the public rhetoric of place -- Shaping place with public rhetoric -- Vast pennsylvania, unique pennsylvania: synecdoche and the representation of place -- Constructing the vicarious experience of proximity in a marcellus shale public hearing -- Vicarious proximity as a micro-rhetorical strategy of image repair -- Conclusion: Themes, challenges and findings for public place-based rhetoric.
Summary
"Fracking and the Rhetoric of Place investigates the rhetorical strategies of speakers on hydraulic fracturing in order to understand how places shape and are shaped by citizens as they engage in their democracy. Analysis offers scholars of place-based rhetoric and environmental communication a heuristic approach to studying their own sites"--
