Global Rhetorics of Science

Lynda C. Olman is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Sins against Science: The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and Others, also published by SUNY Press.

"This book is an invaluable addition to the field by exploring the rhetorical landscape surrounding scientific traditions beyond Western science, including non-Western approaches to communicating about science-related knowledge and examples of cross-cultural communication of science. The examples from the book cover cultures/peoples/knowledges from six continents and two oceans—a pretty amazing spread. This area is understudied but interest in it is booming, so the book is timely." — Lindy Orthia, Australian National University"I cannot think of another volume on the rhetoric of science that approaches the subject from a global perspective, especially a perspective that centers indigenous knowledge and decolonial perspectives." — Donnie Johnson Sackey, University of Texas at Austin

• List of Illustrations Preface In Memorium: Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, Ethnomathematics, and Rhetoric Acknowledgments Introduction: Reconfiguring Global Rhetorics of ScienceLynda C. Olman1. How Euro-American Science Became Dominant: Transnational Circulations of Knowledge and Capital Kelly Happe and Lynda C. Olman2. The Shifting Rhetoric of Environmental Science in Australia: Acknowledging First Nations People and Country Emilie Ens, Shaina Russell, Bridget Campbell, Sabina Rysnik-Steck, Monica Fahey, Patrick Cooke, Renee Cawthorne, and Daniel Sloane3. African Sciences and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the West African Ebola Crisis Toluwani Oloke and Olusegun Soetan4. A Critical Contextualized Approach to Studying Clashing Risk Cultures: Mapping the Transcultural Environmental Risk Communication of PM2.5 in China Huiling Ding and Jianfen Chen5. Where Voyaging Ends: Social Cosmology on Rapa Nui Francisco Nahoe6. Celtic Geometric Art as a Visual Rhetoric of Science Evelyn Dsouza7. This Is a Viral Story about Viral Stories: Image and Graphical Power in COVID Communication in the Navajo Nation Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi, Julianne Newmark, and Joseph Bartolotta8. A Rhetoric of the Home Ground: Local Knowledge and Data-Gathering among the North Atlantic Glaciers Ryan EichbergerBibliography Contributor Biographies Index