The rhetoric of oil in the twenty-first century: government, corporate, and activist discourses

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Rhetoric in the Age of Oil: Energy Humanities and the Discourses of the Petrochemical Industry; SECTION I: Euro-American Case Studies; 2 King Coal versus Prince Petroleo: Imagining Oil, Energy, and Transition in Early Twentieth-Century Britain; 3 Crude Thinking; 4 Rhetorics of Toxicity, Racism, and Religion on the Gulf Coast: Oil and Environmental Justice in BP Spill Documentary Films; 5 When Water Meets Oil: Rupturing Rhetoric and Reality in Energy Policy and Climate Science

10 Still Ethical Oil: Framing the Alberta Oil Sands11 From Pipeline to Plate: The Domestication of Oil Sands through Visual Food Analogies; 12 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Alberta Oil Sands (But Were Afraid to Ask Jacques Lacan); 13 "Know-Nothing Foreign Celebrity Millionaires": Celebrity, Authenticity, and the Sabotage of Civil Discourse in the Controversy of the Alberta Oil Sands; 14 From Persuasion to Manipulation: Tracing Oil Sands Narratives in the Calgary Herald; 15 How Not to Stop a Pipeline: A Critique of Activism in the Burnaby Mountain Protests; Index