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Undermining Risk and Technical Communication: Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis

Undermining Risk and Technical Communication: Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis

Amidon, Timothy R.
Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmut
Richards, Daniel P.

Hardcover

Series: Suny Series, Studies in Technical Communication

Business GeneralGeneral Reference

ISBN13: 9798855807417
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Changes the conversation about risk by exposing the field's historical complicity with extractive industries and building new methodologies for future risk communication research.

Technical 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.

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