Research Catalog

Title

The rhetorical legacy of Wangari Maathai : planting the future / edited by Eddah M. Mutua, Alberto González, and Anke Wolbert.

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mutua, Eddah M., 1965-
• González, Alberto, 1954-
• Wolbert, Anke Thorey

Description

xxii, 221 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This book explores and honors the rhetorical legacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Each chapter provides an analysis of Maathai's public advocacy as she attempted to persuade the world to provide greater protection of earth's habitats--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Transnational communication and critical/cultural studies

Uniform Title

Transnational communication and critical/cultural studies.

Subject

• Maathai, Wangari
• Tree planters (Persons) > Kenya > Biography
• Environmentalists > Kenya > Biography
• Women conservationists > Kenya > Biography
• Women politicians > Kenya > Biography
• Women Nobel Prize winners > Biography
• Rhetoric > Political aspects
• Communication in conservation of natural resources
• Environmentalists
• Tree planters (Persons)
• Women conservationists
• Women politicians
• Kenya

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Wangari Maathai and social justice advocacy / Alberto González, Eddah M. Mutua, and Anke Wolbert -- I. African and the rhetoric of the Green Belt Movement. Bantu sociolinguistics in Wangari Maathai's peacebuilding rhetoric / Kundai V. Chirindo -- Envisioning peace and reconciliation for Kenya : Wangari Maathai's 2008 Peace Tent opening ceremony address / Anke Wolbert -- The rhetorical potency of storytelling : the narrative role of the hummingbird in the Green Belt Movement / Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey -- Heroic transverser : a rhetorical analysis of representations of Wangari Maathai in Kenyan press / Wanjiru G. Mbure -- Wangari Maathai's rhetorical vision : empowerment through education / Ahmet Atay -- The Green Belt Movement and rhetoric of African development communication / Stella-Monica Mpande and Cleophas Tauri Muneri -- II. Planting the future : sustaining agency in and beyond the Green Belt Movement. The rhetorical significance of Maathai's environmental advocacy to critical intercultural communication and Black feminisms / Rachel Alicia Griffin and Gloria Nziba Pindi -- Wangari Maathai and Mottainai : gifting "cultural appropriation" with cultural empowerment / Etsuko Kinefuchi -- Daughter of the soil : Wangari Maathai's rhetorical vision of environmental justice and reform / Reynaldo Anderson and D.L. Stephenson -- Growing the next generation : the sustainability of Wangari Maathai's rhetoric of environmentalism / Ellen W. Gorsevski -- Planting the future : the spiritual legacy of Wangari Maathai / Eddah M. Mutua and Susan M. Kilonzo.

Call Number

Sc E 22-563

ISBN

• 9781498571128
• 1498571123

LCCN

2018036052

OCLC

1057731080

Title

The rhetorical legacy of Wangari Maathai : planting the future / edited by Eddah M. Mutua, Alberto González, and Anke Wolbert.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Transnational communication and critical/cultural studies

Transnational communication and critical/cultural studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: ST. CLOUD STATE. FESTSCHRIFT FOR KENYAN WOMAN, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER. NEW SERIES.

Added Author

Mutua, Eddah M., 1965- editor.

González, Alberto, 1954- editor.

Wolbert, Anke Thorey, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-563