Speaking about the “Environment” – topical change in Swedish nuclear waste discourse
Journal Title: Res Rhetorica - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
This article offers a rhetorical perspective on the Swedish project of nuclear waste management – how inventio has been shaped throughout the project, with focus on alignment of perspectives and adaptation of argument to achieve a solution to an urgent problem – finding a location for spent nuclear fuel repository. The study finds that the organizations representing the “environmental” perspective have gradually (1970s-2010s) integrated the argumentation of the nuclear industry into their own position. Also the treatment of “environment” as a material ground for argument has changed over the years – from a separated topic for the critics of the repository project, to a commonplace argument, and from a local value to a political notion.
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Helena Hansson-Nylund
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- EP ID EP192141
- DOI 10.17380/rr.2016.3.1
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