ABSTRACT

In 2008 Tim DeChristopher illegally bid on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) parcels offered for energy exploration leases near National Parks in Utah. DeChristopher and his supporters founded Peaceful Uprising, a climate justice movement, in response to his actions. We analyze mediated news coverage and in situ rhetoric gathered via rhetorical fieldwork to examine the ways that Peaceful Uprising combined place-based rhetoric and place-as rhetoric tactics to protect these park-adjacent lands from oil and gas leases and to protect DeChristopher from being convicted for making false bids on the leases. This analysis offers a unique example of place-based protest that is focused on otherwise ignored BLM lands. Moreover, we focus on a place—Salt Lake City—that is not conventionally perceived as a bastion of activism and protest about climate change. Our analysis expands the place in protest framework to considerations of: 1) the convergence of the place-based and place-as rhetoric tactics, and 2) the potential of place in protest appeals to enact different futurities.

摘要

2008 年，蒂姆·德克里斯托弗 (Tim DeChristopher) 非法竞标土地管理局 (BLM) 地块，用于在犹他州国家公园附近提供能源勘探租赁。德克里斯托弗和他的支持者发起了和平起义，这是一项气候正义运动，以回应他的行为。我们分析媒体新闻报道和现场通过修辞实地调查收集的修辞研究和平起义将基于地方的修辞和地方作为修辞策略相结合的方式，以保护这些毗邻公园的土地免受石油和天然气租赁的影响，并保护德克里斯托弗免于因对租赁进行虚假投标而被定罪。该分析提供了一个基于地方的抗议的独特示例，该示例专注于否则会被忽略的 BLM 土地。此外，我们关注的地方——盐湖城——通常不被视为气候变化激进主义和抗议的堡垒。我们的分析将抗议框架中的场所扩展到以下考虑：1）基于场所和场所作为修辞策略的融合，以及 2）抗议中场所的潜力呼吁制定不同的未来。