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What forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation? Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly. An introduction drawing on Jacques Rancière and Judith Butler explores the conditions under which civil discourse cannot adequately redress suffering or injustice. The essays offer analyses of “unruliness” in case studies from both twenty-first-century and historical sites of social-justice protest.  The collection concludes with an afterword highlighting and inviting further exploration of the ethical, political, and pedagogical questions unruly rhetorics raise. Examining multiple modes of expression—embodied, print, digital, and sonic—Unruly Rhetorics points to the possibility that unruliness, more than just one of many rhetorical strategies within political activity, is constitutive of the political itself.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title, Series Info, Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. Jonathan Alexander, Susan C. Jarratt
  3. pp. 3-24
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  1. Part I: Bringing Back the Body
  1. 1: Feminist Body Rhetoric in the #unrulymob, Texas, 2013
  2. Dana L. Cloud
  3. pp. 27-44
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  1. 2: Walking with Relatives: Indigenous Bodies of Protest
  2. Joyce Rain Anderson
  3. pp. 45-59
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  1. 3: A Groove We Can Move To: The Sound and Sense of Quebec’s Manifs Casseroles, Spring 2012
  2. Jonathan Sterne
  3. pp. 60-71
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  1. 4: Steven Salaita’s Rhetorical Refusal: Taking to Twitter as a Form of Political Resistance and Protest
  2. Matthew Abraham
  3. pp. 72-87
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  1. 5: Slutwalk Is Not Enough: Notes toward a Critical Feminist Rhetoric
  2. Jacqueline Rhodes
  3. pp. 88-104
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  1. Part II: Civility Wars
  1. 6: Informed, Passionate, and Disorderly: Uncivil Rhetoric in a New Gilded Age
  2. Nancy Welch
  3. pp. 107-127
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  1. 7: Circulating Voices of Dissent: Rewriting the Life of James Eads How and Hobo News
  2. Diana George, Paula Mathieu
  3. pp. 128-145
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  1. 8: We Are Not all in This Together: A Case for Advocacy, Factionalism, and Making the Political Personal
  2. Kevin Mahoney
  3. pp. 146-161
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  1. 9: The Tone It Takes: An Eighteen-Day Sit-In at Syracuse University
  2. Yanira Rodríguez, Ben Kuebrich
  3. pp. 162-182
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  1. 10: The Steven Salaita Case: Public Rhetoric and the Political Imagination in US College Composition and Its Professional Associations
  2. John Trimbur
  3. pp. 183-206
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  1. Part III: Limits and Horizons
  1. 11: Answering the World’s Anticipation: The Relevance of Native Son to Twenty-First-Century Protest Movements
  2. Deborah Mutnick
  3. pp. 209-227
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  1. 12: Dignitas and “Shit Shovels”: Corporate Bodies and Unruly Language
  2. Jason Peters
  3. pp. 228-243
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  1. 13: Remix as Unruly Play and Participatory Method for Im/possible Queer World–making
  2. Londie T. Martin, Adela C. Licona
  3. pp. 244-260
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  1. 14: On Democracy’s Return Home: The Occupation of Liberty/Zuccotti Park
  2. John Ackerman, Meghan Dunn
  3. pp. 261-281
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  1. 15: Then Comes Fall: Activism, the Arab Spring, and the Necessity of Unruly Borders
  2. Steve Parks, Dala Ghandour, Emna Ben Yedder Tamarziste, Mohammed Masbah, Bassam Alahmad
  3. pp. 282-299
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  1. Afterword: Science, Politics, and the Messy Arts of Rhetoric
  2. Nancy Welch
  3. pp. 300-310
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 311-316
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 317-326
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