The Sound and the Fury: Common Sense About the Exxon Valdez

Gordon, Philip Sherman

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Title

The Sound and the Fury: Common Sense About the Exxon Valdez

Author(s)

Gordon, Philip Sherman

Issue Date

2003

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Grossberg, Lawrence

Department of Study

Speech Communication

Discipline

Speech Communication

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

Speech Communication

Language

eng

Abstract

"Using articulation theory, it moves beyond the quagmire of the great wilderness debate, and charts a middle ground between, on the one hand, the overly optimistic and non-deterministic celebration of ""wild nature"" as an unproblematic solution to complex social and ecological problems, and, on the other hand, the overly pessimistic and deterministic critique of ""wild nature"" as guaranteed ideology, an always already coopted term which indirectly supports the very things it ostensibly resists. This study looks at how those articulations were forged in the context of the struggle against oil pollution in Alaska, and attempts to evaluate their effects, maintaining critical understandings of nature and wilderness without rejecting those terms out of hand, or out of the context of the specific social and ecological struggles in which they were deployed."

Graduation Semester

2003

Type of Resource

text

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