The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai Planting the Future,9781498571128

The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai Planting the Future

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ISBN13: 9781498571128
ISBN10: 1498571123
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2018-10-25
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Author Biography

Eddah M. Mutua is professor of intercultural communication at St. Cloud State University.

Alberto González is distinguished university professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University.

Anke Wolbert is lecturer in the School of Communication, Media, and Theatre Arts at Eastern Michigan University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Wangari Maathai and Social Justice Advocacy

Alberto González, Eddah M. Mutua, and Anke Wolbert

Part I: Africa and the Rhetoric of the Green Belt Movement

Chapter One: Bantu Sociolinguistics in Wangari Maathai’s Peacebuilding Rhetoric

Kundai V. Chirindo

Chapter Two: Envisioning Peace and Reconciliation for Kenya: Wangari Maathai’s 2008 Peace Tent Opening Ceremony Address

Anke Wolbert

Chapter Three: The Rhetorical Potency of Storytelling: The Narrative Role of the Hummingbird in the Green Belt Movement

Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey

Chapter Four: Heroic Transverser: A Rhetorical Analysis of Representations of Wangari Maathai

Wanjiru G. Mbure

Chapter Five: Wangari Maathai’s Rhetorical Vision: Empowerment through Education

Ahmet Atay

Chapter Six: The Green Belt Movement and Rhetoric of African Development Communication

Stella-Monica Mpande and Cleophas Tauri Muneri

Part II: Planting the Future: Sustaining Agency in and beyond the Green Belt Movement

Chapter Seven: The Rhetorical Significance of Maathai's Environmental Advocacy to Critical Intercultural Communication and Black Feminisms

Rachel Alicia Griffin and Gloria Nziba Pindi

Chapter Eight: Wangari Maathai and Mottainai: Gifting "Cultural Appropriation" with Cultural Empowerment

Etsuko Kinefuchi

Chapter Nine: Daughter of the Soil: Wangari Maathai’s Rhetorical Vision of Environmental Justice and Reform

Reynaldo Anderson and D.L. Stephenson

Chapter Ten: Growing the Next Generation: The Sustainability of Wangari Maathai’s Rhetoric of Environmentalism

Ellen W. Gorsevski

Chapter Eleven: Planting the Future: The Spiritual Legacy of Wangari Maathai

Eddah M. Mutua and Susan M. Kilonzo

References

Index

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