What West Virginia? Conflict over West Virginia's State Identity: A Constitutive Approach to Activism and Public Relations

What West Virginia? Conflict over West Virginia's State Identity: A Constitutive Approach to Activism and Public Relations

This rhetorical analysis of a coal advocacy and a coal-critical environmentalist organization examines how each group constitutes different West Virginian identities that accord with their organizational mission. Based on the constitutive concepts advanced by Edwin Black, Maurice Charland, and Micha...

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Main Author: Fay, Isabel
Other Authors: Communication Studies
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
dialogue
environmentalism
public relations
coal industry
activism
state identity
constitutive rhetoric
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42633
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05112011-130453/

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