Undermining Risk and Technical Communication : Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amidon, Timothy R.

Series:

SUNY Series, Studies in Technical Communication Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mineral industries--Moral and ethical aspects.

Mineral industries.

Mineral industries--Risk assessment.

Environmental risk assessment.

Risk communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

Changes the conversation about risk by exposing the field's historical complicity with extractive industries and building new methodologies for future risk communication research.Technical and professional communication has a problem with how the concept of risk has been considered alongside extractive technologies.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Figures

Tables

Boxes

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Timothy R. Amidon

Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder

Daniel P. Richards

Donnie Johnson Sackey

All

Chapter One: Undermining Institutions of Risk

The Scope and Scalability of Risk

TPC and Risk

Institutional Risk

Reconfiguring Risk

Undermining Technical Communication

Chapter Descriptions

Chapter Two: Many People Have Died So That Technical Communication Can Live: An Alternate History of Risk and Technical and Professional Communication

Embedded with Risk: Technical Communication and Risk from Colonization through Industrialization (1500s to 1890s)

Indebted to Risk: Technical Communication and Risk in American Universities (1890s to 1980)

Divested from Risk: Technical Communication as a Research Field (1980 to 2010s)

Implications: Confronting the History of Risk in TPC

Chapter Three: Moving Beyond the Industrial Present in Risk Communication: Rethinking Models and Methodology

The Field of Risk Communication

History and Evolution of Risk Communication

Models and Approaches in Industry

Expanding Risk

Scaling Theory

Mapping Risk

Implications for TPC Studying Risk

Chapter Four: Riskscapes: The Bonita Peak Mining District and the Displacement of Native Americans in the San Juan Mountains

Space, Scale, and Risk

The Bonita Peak Mining District

Respatializing Risk and the Bonita Peak Mining District

Relocating Risk: Why Spatializing Risk Matters

Spatializing Risk Through a Localized, Event-Driven Frame

Spatializing Risk as a Component of Epideictic Rhetoric

Spatializing Risk to Obscure the Role of Human Activity Within Crisis and Disasters

Spatializing Risk Reveals Dispositions Toward Being-at-Risk Versus Feeling-at-Risk.

Quandaries with Localizing Risk: Implications Regarding Spatializing Risk

Chapter Five: Timescapes amid a Water Crisis: The Enduring Legacy of the Law of the River Within the Colorado River Basin

Time, Scope, and Risk

Timescapes

Kinship Time

A Short History of the Colorado River Basin

T he Law of the River: Shifting Risk in the Colorado River Basin

Colorado River Compact and the Introduction of an Industrial Timescape

Revealing the Embedded Complexity of Networks of Risk in the CRC and LoR

Accounting for Risk as Temporally Emplaced and Embodied: Intergenerational Harm and the CRC

Identifying How the CRC Shifted Risk over Time: The Pacific Flyway

Implications with Risk Futures in the CRB

Chapter Six: Contradictory Risk Flows: The Uinta Basin Railway Project and the East Palestine Train Derailment

Energy and Contradictory Risk Flows

Uinta Basin Energy Flows

Contradictory Risk Flows and the Uinta Railway

East Palestine, Ohio and Contradictory Risk Flows

The Uinta Basin and Preventing Contradictory Risk Flows

Implications Regarding Risk Flow Futures

Conclusion: Implications and Polyvocality

Dan

Donnie

Tim

Ehren

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-88-558-0744-8

OCLC:

1591607738