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# Tasks
## Week 1-3 (end: Fri 1 May)
- [x] Exploratory reading
- [x] Re-draft the dissertation argument and structure
- [x] Re-draft the project plan
## Week 4 (end: Fri 8 May)
- [ ] Gather a list of 'core apocalyptic forms'
- [ ] Gather examples of green rhetoric using 'core apocalyptic forms'
- [ ] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final
- [ ] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the audience is blamed or
assumed to have power over the problem
- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric causes alienation
- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric obstructs appropriate
responses to ongoing green harms
- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric blames the wrong people,
i.e. evidence that major green harms are not fairly blamed on the
behaviour of ordinary people
- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric justifies violence and
authoritarianism
## Week 5 (end: Fri 15 May)
- [ ] Gather evidence that St John's rhetorical strategy is to exhort his
audience to a martyrdom ethic through an immanent catastrophe
- [ ] Gather examples of St John using the 'core apocalyptic forms'
- [ ] Gather examples of St John using the particular apocalyptic features his
rhetorical strategy requires
- [ ] Gather examples of ancient apocalypse using the features I think are
under-exploited by apocalyptic green rhetoric
- [ ] Gather examples of apocalyptic green rhetoric using martyrdom-apocalyptic
features
- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric banishes panic
- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric encourages local
action
- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric awakens the
complacent
- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric encourages
resistance to dominant systems
- [ ] Gather evidence that green rhetoric can use the features I think are
under-exploited by apocalyptic green rhetoric to make good things happen
## Week 6 (end: Fri 5 Jun)
- [ ] Draft chapter 2
## Week 7 (end: Fri 12 Jun)
- [ ] Draft chapter 3
## Week 8 (end: Fri 19 Jun)
- [ ] Draft introduction
## Week 9 (end: Fri 26 Jun)
- [ ] Draft summary
## Week 10 (end: Fri 3 Jul)
- [ ] Re-draft chapter 2
## Week 11 (end: Fri 23 Jul)
- [ ] Re-draft chapter 3
## Week 12 (end: Fri 30 Jul)
- [ ] Re-draft introduction and conclusion
## Bonus
- [ ] Gather a list of shared forms between nuclear rhetoric and green rhetoric
- [ ] Gather examples of catastrophic nuclear rhetoric
- [ ] Gather examples of catastrophic green rhetoric demonstrating the close
link with nuclear rhetoric, many of which should be from the same time
period as the peak of nuclear catastrophe rhetoric
- [ ] Incorporate into the dissertation an argument that catastrophic green
rhetoric has a strong genetic relationship with nuclear rhetoric
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