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

"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."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Speech Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Gordon, Philip Sherman

Contributors dc:contributor

• Grossberg, Lawrence

• Speech Communication

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3111547

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87513