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Publication details [#52121]

Peeples, Jennifer A., Richard S. Krannich and Jesse Weiss. 2008. Arguments For What No One Wants: The Narratives of Waste Storage Proponents. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture 2 (1) : 40–58.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argument | discourse analysis | justifying | narrative | public speech

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores the public discourse of three different waste storage proponent groups (Industry, Community Advocates and Native Americans), in order to understand the narratives employed to justify the decision to back this typically unwanted land use.