Rhetoric of Genocide

Death as a Text

AvBen Voth

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication

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Beskrivning

Genocide represents one of the deadliest scourges of the human experience. Communication practices provide the key missing ingredient toward preventing and ending this intensely symbolic activity. The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text reveals how strategic communication silences make this tragedy probable, and how a greater social ethic for communication openness repels and ends this great evil. Careful analysis of practical historical figures, such as the great debater James Farmer Jr., along with empirical policy successes in places such as Liberia provide a communication-based template for ridding the world of genocide in the twenty-first century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-29
Mått:151 x 230 x 13 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
Antal sidor:172
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739195321
Utmärkelser:American Forensics Association Daniel Rohrer Research Award

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Ben Voth is associate professor of communication and director of speech and debate at Southern Methodist University.

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It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the horrors of genocide, both past and current. Dr. Voth makes it wonderfully clear that we need not have these tragedies in our midst, and that there is great power in individual initiative to eradicate genocide from this world.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. The Role of Rhetoric and Communication in Genocide2. State Killings as Public Argument3. Discursive Complexity as a Communication Based Moral and Ethical Framework4. The Cell Phone versus the AK-475. The Genocidaire: The Perpetrator6. Christianity as a Critical Methodology for Moral Action7. Islam and the Rhetorical Construct of Islamophobia8. Global Anti-Semitism: The Persistent Genocidal Trope9. James Farmer: A Model for Human Freedom10. Gendercide: Sex Selection Abortion 11. Giving War a Chance: Critical Theory and Genocide12. Winning Wars against Genocide13. Conclusion: A World without GenocideAppendix: Student Essay: Shia Islam