Rhetoric, Culture, and, Social Critique – serie
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77 produkter
Lacan in Public
Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric
Häftad, 2018
320 kr
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Lacan in Public argues that Lacan’s contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan’s entire body of work.Scholars typically cite Jacques Lacan as a thinker primarily concerned with issues of desire, affect, …
Rhetoric of Fascism
Av Patrick D. Anderson, Rya Butterfield m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
626 kr
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Highlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appealsFascism has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our time. The rise of extremist parties and candidates in Europe, the United States, and around the globe has led even mainstream political commentators to begin using the …
Countermemory
A Rhetoric of Resistance
Av April L. O'Brien, James Chase Sanchez
Häftad, 2025
398 kr
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Countermemory: A Rhetoric of Resistance investigates the interdisciplinary dimensions of countermemory through a rhetorical lens by drawing upon a mixed-methodological approach that includes site-based analysis, participant observation, textual analysis, and historiography. The authors apply these …
Scientific Characters
Av The University of Alabama Press
Inbunden, 2010
527 kr
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Addresses what happens when scientists, patients, and advocates are called to defend themselves in public concerning complex technical matters with direct implications for human life. Sheds light on the challenges faced by scientists and citizens as science becomes more bureaucratized, dispersed, …
What Are Stem Cells?
Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics
Av John Lynch
Inbunden, 2011
469 kr
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In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have engaged in an ethical debate regarding the development of and research on embryonic stem cells. Does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human life? Or do limitations imposed on stem cell research harm patients who …
Poets Beyond the Barricade
Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent After 1960
Av Dale Smith
Inbunden, 2012
354 kr
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A study of how poetry and discussions of it shape public consciousness, from the socially volatile era of the 1960s to the War on Terror today.
Border Crossed Us
Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity
Inbunden, 2014
568 kr
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The Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity. Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national …
Stepping Into Zion
Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity
Inbunden, 2014
467 kr
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By studying the multiracial Jewish organisation Hatzaad Harishon, Janice W. Fernheimer’s Stepping into Zion considers the question “Who is a Jew?” - a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike.Hatzaad Harishon (“The First Step”) was a New York-based, …
Rhetorical Exposures
Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography
Inbunden, 2015
524 kr
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In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate the political dimensions of photographs that highlight social injustice.Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical …
Everest Effect
Nature, Culture, Ideology
Inbunden, 2015
453 kr
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In The Everest Effect Elizabeth Mazzolini traces a series of ideological shifts in the status of Mount Everest in Western culture over the past century to the present day and links these shifts to technologies used in climbs. By highlighting the intersections of technology and cultural ideologies …
Democracy's Lot
Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention
Av Candice Rai
Inbunden, 2016
624 kr
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Candice Rai’s Democracy’s Lot is an incisive exploration of the limitations and possibilities of democratic discourse for resolving conflicts in urban communities. Rai roots her study of democratic politics and publics in a range of urban case studies focused on public art, community policing, and …
Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
Av Brett Ommen
Inbunden, 2016
524 kr
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In The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display, Brett Ommen explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. He shows that graphic design is a layered experience of images and space. Before images, viewers engage in the …
Field Rhetoric
Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion
Av Candice Rai, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
Inbunden, 2018
626 kr
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A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric and fieldwork.A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication, technical …
Desiring the Bomb
Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age
Inbunden, 2018
554 kr
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A timely interdisciplinary study that applies psychoanalysis and the rhetorical tradition of the sublime to examine the cultural aftermath of the Atomic Age.Every culture throughout history has obsessed over various “end of the world” scenarios. The dawn of the Atomic Age marked a new twist in this …
Lives, Letters, and Quilts
Women and Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance
Inbunden, 2019
585 kr
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How writers, composers, and artists without power resist dominant social, cultural, and political structures through the deployment of unconventional means and materials.In Lives, Letters, and Quilts: Women and Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance, Vanessa Kraemer Sohan applies a translingual and …
Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions
Av Ian Barnard
Inbunden, 2020
565 kr
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Analyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender. In Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions, Ian Barnard makes the counter-intuitive argument that contemporary …
Architects of Memory
Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age
Inbunden, 2020
585 kr
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Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency. We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the past is only a click away. …
Feminist Connections
Rhetoric and Activism Across Time, Space, and Place
Av Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
682 kr
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Highlights feminist rhetorical practices that disrupt and surpass boundaries of time and spaceIn 1917, Alice Paul and other suffragists famously picketed in front of the White House while holding banners with short, pithy sayings such as “Mr. President: How long must women wait for Liberty?” Their …
Decoding the Digital Church
Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump
Inbunden, 2021
568 kr
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A nuanced look at the rhetorical narratives used by conservative Republicans and evangelicals to make both personal and political choices As a political constituency, white conservative evangelicals are generally portrayed as easy to dupe, disposed to vote against their own interests, and prone to …
Heritage and Hate
Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities
Inbunden, 2021
471 kr
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How southern universities presently contend with an inherited panoply of words and symbols that embody and perpetuate Old South traditions In Heritage and Hate: Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities, Stephen M. Monroe presents the US South as a pulsating rhetorical landscape, a place where …
I the People
The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States
Inbunden, 2022
626 kr
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A rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatism.I The People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States examines a variety of texts—ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets—to outline the populist character of …
Climate Politics on the Border
Environmental Justice Rhetorics
Inbunden, 2022
568 kr
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Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border communityAs a borderland city with generations of slow violence and extreme weather events like flash flooding and intense heat waves, San Antonio, Texas, speaks directly to global issues in climate …
Faithful Deliberation
Rhetorical Invention, Evangelicalism, and #MeToo Reckonings
Av T J Geiger
Inbunden, 2022
578 kr
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Investigates the rhetorical practices that contemporary evangelical Christian women use to confront theological and cultural issues that stymie deliberation within their communities regarding how to respond to sexual assault and domestic violence, with an eye toward both compassion for victims and …
Case for Single Motherhood
Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations
Inbunden, 2023
1234 kr
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Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought—and continue to seek—to legitimize their maternal identities and family formationsScholars of rhetoric have largely overlooked the inherent rhetoricity of family. …
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport's Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
Inbunden, 2023
1369 kr
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A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoricAmerican sports agnostics might raise an eyebrow at the idea that soccer represents a staging ground for cultural, social, and political possibility. It is just another game, after all, in a society where mass-audience spectator sports largely …
Tense Times
Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in US Crisis Culture
Inbunden, 2023
1271 kr
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How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describesAmerican public culture is obsessed with crisis. Political polarization, economic collapse, moral decline—the worst seems always yet to come and already here. Tense Times argues that the ways we discuss these crises, …
Dreamer Nation
Immigration, Activism, and Neoliberalism
Inbunden, 2023
1234 kr
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Illustrates how the Dreamer community was created rhetorically—in the discourse, messages, actions, and visual representations of undocumented youthDreamer Nation tells the story of how Dreamers in the Obama era creatively confronted a complex sociopolitical landscape to advocate for immigrant …
Fitter, Happier
The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric
Inbunden, 2024
1386 kr
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Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between cancer rhetoric, American ideals, and eugenic influences in the twentieth century. This groundbreaking work delves into the paradoxical interplay between …
Oligarchy in America
Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few
Av Luke Winslow
Inbunden, 2024
1234 kr
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A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs.To an American, oligarchy is something that happens somewhere else. In Oligarchy in America, Luke Winslow reveals oligarchy’s deep intellectual …
Haunted West
Memory and Commemoration at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Av Greg Dickinson, Eric Aoki m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1271 kr
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Offers a rich interpretation of the region’s vexed history through a detailed study of the commemorative practices enacted—and withheld—at a landmark American museum.
