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This book explores and honors the rhetorical legacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Each chapter provides an analysis of Maathai's public advocacy as she attempted to persuade the world to provide greater protection of earth's habitats.
List 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
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the author
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
Summary
This book explores and honors the rhetorical legacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Each chapter provides an analysis of Maathai's public advocacy as she attempted to persuade the world to provide greater protection of earth's habitats.
