Lexington Books
Pages: 194
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-1-66693-893-7 • Hardback • June 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66693-894-4 • eBook • June 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Jeremy R. Grossman holds a PhD in communication studies and currently teaches classes at the University of Maryland.
Introduction
Chapter 1: On Models and Memory
Chapter 2: Physical Scale Modeling and the Rhetoric of Sublimation
Chapter 3: Standard Project Disasters and Rhetorical Transposition
Chapter 4: Prefiguring Hurricane Katrina and the Rhetoric of “The Big One”
Chapter 5: Predictions of/and the Past
"Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster offers a novel and timely take on the rhetoric of memory and memorialization in the context of disaster rhetorics. It skillfully weaves psychoanalytic concepts together with detailed case studies concerning disaster preparedness in the United States while navigating several complex theoretical topical domains. Combining insights drawn from the rhetoric of science and technology with psychoanalytic and genealogical concepts on the function of memory, history, and governance, this work is especially pertinent given the ever-intensifying exigence of the climate crisis and its disproportionate effects on raced populations marginalized by crumbling infrastructure, systemic inequality, and manufactured precarity."
— Atilla Hallsby, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
"Jeremy R. Grossman’s fascinating account of how predictive practices prefigure memories of unnatural disasters will enthrall and enlighten scholars of rhetoric, public memory, and science and technology studies alike."
— Joshua Trey Barnett, Pennsylvania State University