Projecting a Future Present: Greta Thunberg’s use of Presence at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019

Projecting a Future Present: Greta Thunberg’s use of Presence at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019

Rhetoricians have long realized that crises are, in part, the product of audience perception and therefore rhetorical choice. In this article I will demonstrate that the speech that Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg gave at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit employs presence to not...

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Main Author: Jelte Olthof
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne/ Polish Rhetoric Society 2021-03-01
Series:Res Rhetorica
Subjects:
presence
climate change
Greta Thunberg
Critical Future Studies
Online Access:https://resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/article/view/407
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spelling doaj-45c5d04b7fd04a4cadcd32bcc651658e2021-03-30T23:05:18ZengPolskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne/ Polish Rhetoric SocietyRes Rhetorica2392-31132021-03-018110.29107/rr2021.1.4Projecting a Future Present: Greta Thunberg’s use of Presence at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019Jelte Olthof0University of Groningen Rhetoricians have long realized that crises are, in part, the product of audience perception and therefore rhetorical choice. In this article I will demonstrate that the speech that Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg gave at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit employs presence to not only transcend her own person, but time itself, and presents climate catastrophe as a future present that should be avoided at all cost. https://resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/article/view/407presenceclimate changeGreta ThunbergCritical Future Studies
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Critical Future Studies
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title Projecting a Future Present: Greta Thunberg’s use of Presence at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019
title_short Projecting a Future Present: Greta Thunberg’s use of Presence at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019
title_full Projecting a Future Present: Greta Thunberg’s use of Presence at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019
title_fullStr Projecting a Future Present: Greta Thunberg’s use of Presence at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019
title_full_unstemmed Projecting a Future Present: Greta Thunberg’s use of Presence at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019
title_sort projecting a future present: greta thunberg’s use of presence at the united nations climate action summit 2019
publisher Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne/ Polish Rhetoric Society
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publishDate 2021-03-01
description Rhetoricians have long realized that crises are, in part, the product of audience perception and therefore rhetorical choice. In this article I will demonstrate that the speech that Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg gave at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit employs presence to not only transcend her own person, but time itself, and presents climate catastrophe as a future present that should be avoided at all cost.
topic presence
climate change
Greta Thunberg
Critical Future Studies
url https://resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/article/view/407
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