Violent Histories, Livable Futures

Forging the Power of the People

AvEric King Watts

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Rhetoric of Power and Protest

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Our political landscape is crowded with competing voices—claims, demands, grievances, and even acts of violence—all made in the name of some idea of “the people.” This powerful concept has been wielded both to assert democratic sovereignty and to justify exclusion and control. Violent Histories, Livable Futures unpacks this complex dynamic through compelling historical case studies, spanning sub-Saharan Africa in the 1950s, post–World War II Guatemala, and the United States in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. By tracing how societies have contended over which people matter and which do not, this book offers a deeply relevant exploration of power, representation, and the struggle for justice, all in pursuit of a more livable future.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:172 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rhetoric of Power and Protest
Antal sidor:150
Förlag:Michigan State University Press
ISBN:9781611865660

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Eric King Watts has published extensively on Black public voice, its invention, and suppression and is the author of Hearing the Hurt: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement and Postracial Fantasies and Zombies: On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World.

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“A critical intervention coming amid relentless violence, this book names violence while asking what it means to build communities and systems of both possibility and dignity. Watts and the contributors offer rhetorical scholars complex modes of livability amid violence.”—Lisa A. Flores, author of Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant