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Beyond Consensus: How Everyday Citizens Advocate for Local Environmental Issues


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By better understanding the "genre" of environmental public hearings, one can challenge ideas of effectiveness and consensus so that citizens can learn to advocate more effectively for their concerns about environmental issues. This book addresses how public hearing genre conventions are established and how those conventions inform and often govern tensions that arise in public discourse about a contested environmental project. The two questions driving the author's inquiry are: one, how do citizens and institutions interpret, prepare for, respond to, and engage with the public hearing genre? And two, what role and effect do public hearings have on both the community and the contested project's overall process? The case study delves into public comments from two Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) 401 Water Quality Certification public hearings that were held in August 2017 and hosted by Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VA DEQ). The author argues that there are ways we might reimagine ideas of effectiveness, consensus, and the public hearing genre, specifically in the case of the 401 Public Hearings and more generally in other public hearings where public discourses center on a contested environmental project like the MVP.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements About the Author List of Abbreviations Introduction: Mountain Valley Pipeline and the 401 Public Hearings 1. Using Genre theory to Understand the MVP 401 Public Hearings 2. Understanding the Problem and Genre Set of the MVP 401 Public Hearings 3. Genre Theory and the Public Sphere: The Reciprocal Relationship between the MVP Publics and the 401 Public Hearings 4. Protests at the 401 Public Hearings Conclusion: Findings, Limitations, and Moving Forward Bibliography

About the Author :
Kelly Scarffserves as the Director of the Technical Communication Program and a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech.

Review :
Kelly Scarff's inquiry into Mountain Valley Pipeline environmental discourse uncovers how public hearings shape the land and the lives of those on it. Beyond Consensus takes a rhetorical perspective on public hearings and offers insights into what it means to be effective in this vital mode of civic engagement. This book provides a prompt and a pathway to improve public discourse.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781978766303
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: How Everyday Citizens Advocate for Local Environmental Issues
  • ISBN-10: 1978766300
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 152


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