{"product_id":"undermining-risk-and-technical-communication-extractive-industry-cascading-disaster-and-the-global-climate-crisis-hardcover","title":"Undermining Risk and Technical Communication: Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy R. Amidon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEhren Helmut Pflugfelder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDaniel P. Richards\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChanges the conversation about risk by exposing the field's historical complicity with extractive industries and building new methodologies for future risk communication research.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTechnical and professional communication has a problem with how the concept of risk has been considered alongside extractive technologies. Throughout its history, the practice, teaching, and research of technical and professional communication has been embedded within, complicit with, and indebted to these industries. These industries have also created massive global harm to people and ecosystems, both through accidents as well as the slow violence of pollution and climate change. In response, this book seeks to \"undermine\" how technical and professional communication works with risk by reconsidering implications that traverse a greater span of time and geography. It revises the field's risk methodology and encourages future researchers to navigate the scope and scale of their projects. Along with new theoretical framing, the text presents three detailed case studies illustrating how careful consideration of scope and scale can impact how technical and professional communication engages extraction and risk, showcasing to new and experienced technical communication researchers alike how risk communication is about to enter a new era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy R. Amidon \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor and Chair of Professional and Public Writing at the University of Rhode Island. He is editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eCommunication Design Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eEhren Helmut Pflugfelder \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Scientific, Technical and Professional Communication at Oregon State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCommunicating Mobility and Technology: A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGeoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis: A Geologic Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eDaniel P. Richards \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at Old Dominion University.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eHe is the editor of \u003ci\u003eOn Teacher Neutrality: Politics, Praxis, and Performativity\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Kristen P. Moore, of \u003ci\u003ePosthuman Praxis in Technical Communication\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e Donnie Johnson Sackey \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTrespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 290\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50495361253624,"sku":"9798855807417","price":195.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/HrqSyFOLTr9798855807417.webp?v=1789239119","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/undermining-risk-and-technical-communication-extractive-industry-cascading-disaster-and-the-global-climate-crisis-hardcover","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}