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This handbook represents the first comprehensive disciplinary investigation into the relationship between rhetoric and power as it is expressed in different aspects of society.
Providing conceptual and empirical foundations for the study of the relationship between different forms of rhetorical expression and diverse structures, practices, habits, and networks of power, The Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power is divided into six parts:
Theoretical Foundations
Propaganda, Politics, and the State
Resistance and Social Movements
Culture, Society, and Identity
Discourses of Technique and Organization
Prospects for the Future
The guiding principle of this handbook is that power represents a capacity for coordinated action grounded in specific historical, technological, political, and economic conditions. It suggests that rhetoric is an art that adapts to these conditions and finds ways to transform, create, or undermine these capacities in other people through self-conscious persuasion. Featuring contributions from key scholars, this accessibly written handbook will be an indispensable resource for researchers and students in the fields of rhetoric, writing studies, communication studies, political communication, and social justice.
Contents
1 Prolegomena to Future Inquiry into Rhetoric and Power Nathan Crick Part 1. Theoretical Foundations 2 Infraontology: Rhetoric, Insurgency, Abolition Omedi Ochieng 3 Economic New Materialism and the Invention of Affective Possibilities Catherine Chaput 4 Political Style, Formalism, and the Anthropocene Robert Hariman 5 Abolitionist John Brown, Gun Clubs, and the Rhetoric of Physical Violence Jay P. Childers 6 The Universe of Things: Power in a More than Human World Kevin Michael DeLuca and Joshua Trey Barnett 7 The Rhetorical Analysis of Unconscious Forms of Persuasion Michael Lane Bruner Part 2. Propaganda, Politics, and the State 8 Culturally Sensitive Engagement: Enabling Citizen Deliberation in Transportation Needs Rebecca M. Townsend and Mary Rosado 9 Rhetorical Criticism as the Art of Questioning What We Take for Granted: An Inquiry into the "American Dream" Jeremy Engels, Tiara Good, John Minbiole, William Saas and Frank Stec 10 Moralizing an Electoral Crisis: The Rhetoric of Moral Words in Ghana's 2020 Election Dispute Nancy Henaku 11 "This is Not Who We are as a Nation": Theorizing Collective Identity in the US Mary E. Stuckey 12 A Hestian Defense of the Oikos: The Authoritarian Mother Persona of Sarah Huckabee Sanders Valerie Palmer-Mehta Part 3. Resistance and Social Movements 13 Soup, Glue, and Art: Iconoclasm from Below in Just Stop Oil's Use of Image Events James Collins and Roberta Chevrette 14 The Power of Mutual Aid and Care Amy Pason 15 "How Can We Use This to Create Power?": Revisiting the Rhetoric of Consciousness-Raising for Intersectional Solidarity Dana L. Cloud 16 Meredith and the Monument: The Ecology of Memory at the University of Mississippi Dave Tell 17 Body Rhetoric: Containing the Filthy Body of Irish Republicanism in Long Kesh Prison Kate Siegfried Part 4. Culture, Society, and Identity 18 Apocalyptic Rhetoric and Settler Power: Lessons for the End Times in Eruption Santhosh Chandrashekar and Christina R. Foust 19 In Search of a Verb: An Affective Rhetorical Criticism of "The Hill We Climb" Lee M. Pierce 20 Prophets, Presidents, and Democracy Theon Edward Hill 21 The Bamboozle of the Funny: Conservative Comedic Counterfeit Resilience Liz Sills 22 "Birmingham is Really on Mars": White Innocence and A Good Conscience Raquel M. Robvais 23 Collective Rewor(l)ding in the Wreckage of Hauntings and Haunting Situations Romeo Garcia, Jenna Zan, Muath Qadous, Mitzi Ceballos, Keith L. McDonald and Sabit Bastakotia Part 5. Discourses of Technique and Organization 24 AI Chatbots, Translative Rhetoric, and the Future of Public Discourse G. Mitchell Reyes 25 Out of Time: The Spectacular Temporalities of Border Crisis Lisa A. Flores and Mikayla Torres 26 Drawing the Line: Independent Commissions as Deliberative Spaces for Citizen Driven Redistricting Ron VonBurg and Marcus Paroske 27 Conflict Narratives of Competitive Victimhood: On the Storied Dis/Organization of Collective Action Anna Wiederhold Wolfe 28 Material Forces in the Brain Sciences: A Neuro-Ontological Compliment to Neurorhetorics David Gruber Part 6. Prospects for the Future 29 Soy Porque Somos: Touring and Planting Trees as Convivial Rhetoric on a Precarious Planet Kundai Chirindo and Phaedra C. Pezzullo 30 Chastened Humanism and Metabolic Transcendence Ira Allen 31 Apocalypsis, Truth, and Cultural Anxiety E. Johanna Hartelius 32 From Black Twitter to Musk's X: A Case Study in Rhetoric, Media, Culture, and Power Alisa Hardy, Matthew Salzano and Damien Smith Pfister 33 Rhetorical Powermapping: Converging Solidarities for Translocal Ecological Justice Constance Gordon 34 On the Solidarity of Species: Cybernetics, Biopolitics, and the Future of Human Unity Jeff Pruchnic
