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Communication
Languages & Communication Bldg
255 South Central Campus Dr RM 2400
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112-0491

Office: 2611 LNCO
Office Hours: By appointment
Office Phone: (801) 585-7308
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This is a national resarch project led by Danielle Endres, Tarla Rai Peterson (Texas A&M), and Leah Sprain (University of Washington) to study the communicative dynamics of the Step It Up 2007 (SIU) campaign to cut carbon emissions. Scholars in nine states analyzed the SIU events in their states and worked in collaboration to develop a series of analytic themes that give insight into climate change activism. Endres, Peterson and Sprain are co-editing a book that will report on the findings of the project. The project is designed to speak to the public and movement/campaign practitioners in addition to scholars in communication, social movement studies, and environmental humanities.

Collaborators: Tarla Rai Peterson , (Texas A&M University) Leah Sprain, (Universoty of Washington)

This oral history project focuses on documenting the stories of people involved in the controversies over nuclear technologies (uranium mining, nuclear testing, and nuclear waste storage) in the American West. Although there are some oral history collections that address uranium mining and nuclear testing in the West, there are no collections that address nuclear waste siting. As such, this project is primarily concerned with collecting oral histories related to nuclear waste siting from affected American Indian tribes, activist organizations, corporations, employees, and federal and state governments. This project also complements extant oral history collections by collecting the stories of people involved with uranium mining or nuclear testing who have not yet told their stories.

For more information contact the project director Danielle Endres, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, at danielle.endres@utah.edu.

This book project examines the rhetorical dimensions of high-level nuclear waste siting decisions in the United States. The book develops a theory of the rhetoric of nuclear colonialism in the context of two high-level nuclear waste siting contorversies: the Yucca Mountain site, and the recently defeated proposal for temporary waste storage at Skull Valley.