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- Unruly Rhetorics: Protest, Persuasion, and Publics
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 3-24
- Part I: Bringing Back the Body
- Part II: Civility Wars
- Part III: Limits and Horizons
- Contributors
- pp. 311-316
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822986430
Related ISBN(s)
9780822965565
MARC Record
OCLC
1061008787
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2018-12-18
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018