基本説明
With contributions from widely known scholars in communication and composition studies, the collection offers practical cases that highlight how rhetoric mediates, constitutes, and/or intervenes in democratic principles and practices.
Full Description
This volume examines the role of rhetoric in today's culture of democratic activism. The volume takes on two of the most significant challenges currently facing contemporary rhetorical studies: (1) the contested meanings and practices of democracy and civic engagement in global context, and (2) the central role of rhetoric in democratic activist practices. In presenting a variety of political and rhetorical struggles in their specific contexts, editors Seth Kahn and JongHwa Lee allow contributors to reflect on and elaborate possibilities for both activist approaches to rhetorical studies, and rhetorical approaches to activist projects, facilitating better understanding the socio-political consequences of this work. With contributors from widely known scholars in communication and composition studies, the collection offers practical cases that highlight how rhetoric mediates, constitutes, and/or intervenes in democratic principles and practices. It also considers theoretical questions that acknowledge profound voids in the rhetorical tradition (e.g., Western, neo-Aristotelian, liberal) and expand the horizon of traditional rhetorical perspectives. It advocates new knowledge and practices that further promote civic engagement, social change and democracy in the global context. Activism and Rhetoric will be appropriate for scholars and students across disciplines, including rhetoric, composition, communication studies, political science, cultural studies, and women's studies.
Contents
ForewordIntroduction: Seth Kahn and JongHwa LeePart I. (Re)Framing Rhetorical Activism: How Activists Theorize Rhetoric and Vice VersaChapter 1: The Only Conceivable Thing To Do: Reflections on Academics and ActivismDana L. Cloud Chapter 2: Reflections on Activist Scholarship: The Consequences We All Have to FaceJonghwa Lee Chapter 3: The Work of a Middle-Class Activist: Stuck in HistoryCharles Bazerman Chapter 4: Speaking Truth to Power: Observations from ExperienceLee Artz Chapter 5: Gadugi: Where the fire burnsEllen (Drew) Cushman Chapter 6: Intervention and Rhetorics of War: Classical Insights for Contemporary ActivistsMelissa Dey Hasbrook Part II. Contexts for Rhetorical Activism, Part One: Activism in Non-Academic SettingsChapter 7: A Conservative Pundit in Liberal Surroundings: An Uneven OdysseyRichard E. VatzChapter 8: The Role of Communism in Democratic Discourse: What Activist Rhetoricians Can Learn from the World BankCatherine ChaputChapter 9: (Re) Politicizing the Writing Process: An Exhortation and a Cautionary TaleSeth KahnChapter 10: "Looking for the Left in Russia"Katie Feyh Part III. Contexts for Rhetorical Activism, Part Two: Activism within Academic InstitutionsChapter 11: Developing Activist Rhetorics on Israel-Palestine: Resisting the Depoliticization of the American AcademyMatthew AbrahamChapter 12: Democracy and the Academy: Ethnographic Articulations and Interventions for Social ChangePaige Pettyjohn Edley & Nina Maria Lozano-Reich Chapter 13: Against Decorous Civility: Acting as if You Live in a DemocracyM.J. Braun Chapter 14: You Can't Get There from Here: Higher Education, Labor Activism, and Challenges of Neoliberal GlobalizationKevin Mahoney Part IV. Contexts for Rhetorical Activism, Part Three: Activist PedagogyChapter 15: Practicing Democracy: An Experience-Based ApproachRuth Ray, Gwendolyn Gorzelsky, Stephanie Hall-Sturgis, LaWanda Dickens, Thomas Trimble, Kim Davis, Karen Keaton Jackson, Justin Vidovic, Sally Chandler Chapter 16: BREAKING NEWS: Armchair Activists Access Their PowerShelley DeBlasis and Teresa Grettano Chapter 17: Activism in the Ivory Tower: Finding Hope for Academic ProseRebecca Jones Chapter 18: Reclaiming Activism for StudentsAmy Pason
