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Invoking the Fathers

Author : Sarah Kornfield
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421449749
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Invoking the Fathers written by Sarah Kornfield and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the metaphor of the "Founding Fathers" so insidious—and how does it impact American politics? American politicians routinely invoke the metaphor of the "Founding Fathers" when referring to the men who supposedly set the United States on a path to greatness. On average, the term "Founding Fathers" is uttered by a congressional member every single day that Congress is in session. Why is this metaphor repeated constantly—and what effect does it have on policy? In Invoking the Fathers, communication scholar Sarah Kornfield links this rhetorical strategy to the rise of patriarchal white supremacy and Christian nationalism in the United States. Using the House and the Senate as the objects of her study, Kornfield traces the trope of fatherhood across congressional discourse and theorizes a rhetoric of sovereignty in which the founders' most obvious heirs—white Christian men—inherit America and its governance. Congressional politicians use this metaphor in four ways: to supposedly advocate for rights and liberties, to demand checks and balances, to celebrate American exceptionalism, and to call for bipartisan politics. These four situations are all, at their core, disputes over what kind of nation America is or should be. Metaphors are not harmless, Kornfield argues, and this one is particularly pernicious: the fatherhood metaphor is taken up and violently embodied by men's rights groups, white supremacist groups, and Christian nationalists. Ultimately, the book demonstrates how this gendered metaphor creates and reinforces a legislative system in which some are considered more equal than others.

Foreign Policy Rhetorics in a Global Era

Author : Allison M. Prasch
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1609177703
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Policy Rhetorics in a Global Era written by Allison M. Prasch and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes concepts familiar to foreign policy scholars and reimagines their usefulness in a global era. The essays in this collection feature unique methodological and theoretical contributions to rhetorical scholarship. The field of rhetorical studies often assumes a US-centric approach that elevates American chief executives as the sole doers and makers of foreign policy discourse. This work points to a more comprehensive, global perspective of foreign policy discourse and offers key concepts, case studies, and approaches. It also examines who enacts discourse, where it happens, and how it influences relationships in/between local, national, transnational, and global spheres. Among the cases researched in this collection are foreign policy rhetoric from Cold War foreign policy in Latin America, the rhetoric of Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war messages, and the development challenges of the Ford Foundation and the Kenya Women Finance Trust, among many others.

Caught on Tape

Author : Kelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019767786X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Caught on Tape written by Kelly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors performed by both ordinary and high-profile people. From former President Donald J. Trump's lewd banter on the infamous Access Hollywood video and leaked audio of celebrity racist tirades to outburst of violent hate speech posted daily to YouTube, contemporary media culture is awash in obscene performances of transgressive white masculinity. Such exposés are screened and viewed under the assumption that revealing secret prejudices will necessarily realize the promises of democracy and bring about a postracial and postfeminist future. This book addresses why the culture of public revelations has failed to hold the perpetrators accountable. Caught on Tape illustrates how public revelations constitute a symbolic and imaginary world for the public that is preoccupied with the obscene enjoyment of transgressive white masculinity: a compulsively repetitive experience of ecstatic and excessive pleasure-in-pain that arises from encounters with that which disturbs, traumatizes, and interrupts illusory notions of our coherent selves and reality. Caught on Tape argues that addressing race and gender inequality with the promise of scandalous hot mics and obscene private videos transforms antiracism and gender justice into disempowering forms of spectatorship that ultimately conceal the structural nature of whiteness, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The central argument of this book is that the spectators are the ones really caught on tape.

American Eloquence

Author : Roderick P. Hart
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231557779
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book American Eloquence written by Roderick P. Hart and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes political speech powerful? How does eloquent rhetoric transcend ordinary language? Which stylistic choices allow effective orators to stir emotions and spur action? And in the age of Donald Trump, does political eloquence still matter? This book examines a wide swath of political discourse to shed new light on the meaning and significance of eloquence. Roderick P. Hart, a leading scholar of political communication, develops new ways of measuring persuasiveness and rhetorical power through the use of computer-based methods. He examines one hundred of the most important speeches of the twentieth century, given by presidents and politicians as well as leaders, activists, and cultural figures including Martin Luther King Jr., Lou Gehrig, Mario Savio, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Stokely Carmichael. Deploying the tools of the digital humanities as well as critical rhetorical analysis, Hart considers what distinguishes the linguistic properties of iconic oratory from those of more mundane texts. He argues that eloquence represents the confluence of cultural resonance, personal investment, and poetic imagination, providing empirical metrics for assessing each of these qualities. A quantitative and qualitative exploration of American political speech, this interdisciplinary book offers a powerful argument for why eloquence is essential for a functioning democracy.

The World Is Our Stage

Author : Allison M. Prasch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226823644
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The World Is Our Stage written by Allison M. Prasch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh account of the US presidential rhetoric embodied in Cold War international travel. Crowds swarm when US presidents travel abroad, though many never hear their voices. The presidential body, moving from one secured location to another, communicates as much or more to these audiences than the texts of their speeches. In The World is Our Stage, Allison M. Prasch considers how presidential appearances overseas broadcast American superiority during the Cold War. Drawing on extensive archival research, Prasch examines five foundational moments in the development of what she calls the “global rhetorical presidency:” Truman at Potsdam, Eisenhower’s “Goodwill Tours,” Kennedy in West Berlin, Nixon in the People’s Republic of China, and Reagan in Normandy. In each case, Prasch reveals how the president’s physical presence defined the boundaries of the “Free World” and elevated the United States as the central actor in Cold War geopolitics.

Resowing the Seeds of War

Author : Stephen J. Heidt
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954183
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Resowing the Seeds of War written by Stephen J. Heidt and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ending a war, as Fred Charles Iklé wrote, poses a much greater challenge than beginning one. In addition to issues related to battle tactics, prisoners of war, diplomatic relations, and cease-fire negotiations, ending war involves domestic political calculations. Balancing the tides of public opinion versus policy needs poses a deep and enduring problem for presidents. In a first-of-its-kind study, Resowing the Seeds of War explains how Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Obama managed the political, policy, and bureaucratic challenges that arise at the end of war via a series of rhetorical choices that reframe, modify, or unravel depictions of national enemies, the cause of the conflict, and the stakes for the nation and world. This end-of-war rhetoric justifies ending hostilities, rationalizes postwar national policy, argues for the construction of postwar security arrangements, and often sustains public support for massive financial investment in reconstruction. By tracking presidential manipulations of savage imagery from World War II to the War on Terror, this book concludes that even as metaphoric reframing facilitates exit from conflict, it incurs unexpected consequences that make national involvement in the next conflict more likely.

Something to Fear

Author : Ira Chernus
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700635645
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Something to Fear written by Ira Chernus and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A presidency unlike any other, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s legacy in foreign affairs has been contested since the day of his passing. Few presidential statements have echoed through history like FDR’s charge to conquer “fear itself.” Yet immediately after the end of World War II, the United States was gripped by a pervasive sense of national insecurity. In Something to Fear, Ira Chernus and Randall Fowler demonstrate that Roosevelt’s rhetoric, vision, and policies promoted a broadly defined sense of American security over a period of thirty-three years, ultimately helping elevate security to its primacy in US political discourse by the end of his presidency. In doing so, however, he also heightened the prominence of insecurity in American public life, mediating the United States’ transition to superpower status in a way that also elevated fear in debates over foreign affairs. FDR’s presidency precipitated a complex shift in US foreign policy that defies any straightforward account organized along a linear isolationist-to-interventionist trajectory. Chernus and Fowler investigate the uncertainties and contradictions embedded in FDR’s presidential rhetoric, which drew from realist, racial, progressive, nostalgic, apocalyptic, liberal internationalist, and American exceptionalist discourses. In this way, Roosevelt’s rhetoric anticipated the ambivalences contained in American adventures abroad ever since. Something to Fear shows how FDR’s response to the Great Depression, the debates over intervention, and World War II left an immense rhetorical legacy that often stressed insecurity. This study of FDR’s entire political career also carefully links him to the Progressive Era before his presidency and to the Cold War era after it.

Affect, Emotion, and Rhetorical Persuasion in Mass Communication

Author : Lei Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351242350
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Affect, Emotion, and Rhetorical Persuasion in Mass Communication written by Lei Zhang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the interplay between affect theory and rhetorical persuasion in mass communication. The essays collected here draw connections between affect theory, rhetorical studies, mass communication theory, cultural studies, political science, sociology, and a host of other disciplines. Contributions from a wide range of scholars feature theoretical overviews and critical perspectives on the movement commonly referred to as "the affective turn" as well as case studies. Critical investigations of the rhetorical strategies behind the 2016 United States presidential election, public health and antiterrorism mass media campaigns, television commercials, and the digital spread of fake news, among other issues, will prove to be both timely and of enduring value. This book will be of use to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and active researchers in communication, rhetoric, political science, social psychology, sociology, and cultural studies.

Rhetoric and Public Affairs 20, No. 2

Author : Martin J. Medhurst
Publisher : Msu Press Journals
ISBN 13 : 9781684300624
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Public Affairs 20, No. 2 written by Martin J. Medhurst and published by Msu Press Journals. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THIS ISSUE Articles Jessy J. Ohl, "In Pursuit of Light War in Libya: Kairotic Justifications of War That Just Happened" Jeffrey St. Onge, "Operation Coffeecup: Ronald Reagan, Rugged Individualism, and the Debate over 'Socialized Medicine'" Sarah Kornfield, "Fixating on the Stasis of Fact: Debating 'Having It All' in U.S. Media" Stephen J. Hartnett, Bryan R. Reckard, "Sovereign Tropes: A Rhetorical Critique of Contested Claims in the South China Sea" Review Essay Ned O'Gorman , Katie P. Bruner, Paul R. McKean, Matthew C. Pitchford, Nikki R. Weickum, "Old Rhetoric and New Media" Book Reviews Greg Dickinson, Suburban Dreams: Imagining and Building the Good Life, reviewed by Andrew F. Wood Nathan Crick, Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece, reviewed by Kristine Bruss Christian Kock and Lisa Villadsen, Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship, reviewed by Sara R. Kitsch James Crosswhite, Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom, reviewed by Sarah Burgess Jenell Johnson, American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History, reviewed by Jordynn Jack Nathan Stormer, Signs of Pathology: U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s-1960s, reviewed by S. Scott Graham Risa Applegarth, Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science, reviewed by Ann George Stephanie LeMenager, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century, reviewed by Kathleen M. De Oníz

Overturned

Author : Clarke Rountree
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817361804
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Overturned written by Clarke Rountree and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2024-12-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and lively summary and analysis of the Supreme Court's justifications for overruling nearly 300 prior rulings in its history An audacious US Supreme Court is overturning a number of long-standing precedents, and Overturned offers a lively account of the court's history of overturning prior cases and examples and analyses of 300 cases overruled in its history. The immense controversy surrounding the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in 2022, which overruled Roe v. Wade and erased the constitutional right to abortion in the United States, has focused public attention on how and why the Supreme Court knocks down long-established precedents. In his vivid and accessible style, scholar Clarke Rountree recounts the rhetorical pirouettes and linguistic acrobatics the court has deployed to explain its reversal of Dobbs and numerous other landmark decisions. He reviews strategies the court uses to undermine a previous court's standing without undermining its own. He analyzes overrulings across time, by type (constitutional cases versus statutory and common law cases), by the ages of the overturned precedents, with changes in the court's membership, and through other variables. Rountree gives engrossing accounts of pivotal overrulings in the past, such as when Lincoln's Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase used the Legal Tender Act in 1862 to raise money for the Civil War then ruled the same law unconstitutional in 1870 when he served as chief justice. Rountree retells Thomas Edison's attempt to monopolize the burgeoning film industry, which was stopped only when the Supreme Court overturned an earlier patent-rights case in 1917. Finally, Rountree applies his myriad insights to the politically fraught Dobbs case. Overruled makes a valuable contribution to law, rhetoric, politics, and history, and readers interested in the role and function of America's highest court will find Rountree's account fast-paced, lively, and engaging.

Voices in Aerosol

Author : Caitlin Frances Bruce
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147732769X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Voices in Aerosol written by Caitlin Frances Bruce and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a city government in central Mexico evolved from waging war on graffiti in the early 2000s to sanctioning its creation a decade later, and how youth navigated these changing conditions for producing art. The local government, residents, and media outlets in León, Mexico, treated graffiti as a disease until the state began sponsoring artistic graffiti through a program of its own. In Voices in Aerosol, the first book-length study of state-sponsored graffiti, Caitlin Frances Bruce considers the changing perceptions and recognition of graffiti artists, their right to the city, and the use of public space over the span of eighteen years (2000–2018). Focusing on the midsized city of León, Bruce offers readers a look at the way negotiations with the neoliberal state unfolded at different levels and across decades. Issues brought to light in this case study, such as graffiti as a threat and graffiti as a sign of gentrification, resonate powerfully with those germane to other urban landscapes throughout the Western Hemisphere and beyond. Combining archival work, interviews, considerations of urban planning, local politics in Mexico, and insights gained by observing graffiti events and other informal artistic encounters, Bruce offers a new lens through which to understand the interplay between sanctioned and unsanctioned forms of cultural expression. Ultimately, Voices in Aerosol builds a strong case for graffiti as a contested tool for "voicing" public demands.

The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State

Author : Marouf Hasian
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498505090
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State written by Marouf Hasian and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rhetorical Invention of America’s National Security State examines the rhetoric and discourse produced by and constitutive of America’s national security state. Hasian, Lawson, and McFarlane illustrate the importance of rhetoric to the expansion of the American national security state in the post-9/11 era through their examination of the global war on terrorism, enhanced interrogation techniques, drone crew stress, activities of Edward Snowden, rise of Special Forces, and popular representations of counterterrorism. The coauthors contend this expansion was not the result of lone, imperial executives or a nefarious state within a state, but was co-produced by elite and non-elite Americans alike who not only condoned, but also in many cases demanded, the expansion of the national security state. This work will be of interest to scholars in communication studies and political science.

Reagan’s Soviet Rhetoric

Author : Mark LaVoie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793647992
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Reagan’s Soviet Rhetoric written by Mark LaVoie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Ronald Reagan go from calling the Soviet Union an “evil empire” in his first term as president to saying the US had “forged a satisfying new closeness” with the Soviets by the end of his second term? In Reagan’s Soviet Rhetoric: Telling the Soviet Redemption Story, rhetorical scholar Mark LaVoie examines the ways Reagan negotiated his shift from a vehemently anti-communist discourse to a rhetoric of guarded optimism about the future of US-Soviet relations that ultimately revealed a Soviet redemption narrative. Following Reagan’s Soviet rhetoric from his 1947 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee to his Farewell Address in 1989, LaVoie considers the President’s use of “Soviet/Nazi analogy,” “historical narrative,” “reciprocity,” and other rhetorical strategies in creating the narrative. Scholars and students of rhetoric, history, and international relations will find this book particularly interesting.

Communication Convergence in Contemporary China

Author : Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954116
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Communication Convergence in Contemporary China written by Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a speech opening the nineteenth Chinese Communist Party Congress meeting in October 2017, President Xi Jinping spoke of a “New Era” characterized by new types of communication convergence between the government, Party, and state media. His speech signaled that the role of the media is now more important than ever in cultivating the Party’s image at home and disseminating it abroad. Indeed, communication technologies, people, and platforms are converging in new ways around the world, not just in China. This process raises important questions about information flows, control, and regulation that directly affect the future of US–China relations. Just a year before Xi proclaimed the New Era, scholars had convened in Beijing at a conference cohosted by the Communication University of China and the US-based National Communication Association to address these questions. How do China and the United States envision each other, and how do our interlinked imaginaries create both opportunities for and obstacles to greater understanding and strengthened relations? Would the convergence of new media technologies, Party control, and emerging notions of netizenship in China lead to a new age of opening and reform, greater Party domination, or perhaps some new and intriguing combination of repression and freedom? Communication Convergence in Contemporary China presents international perspectives on US–China relations in this New Era with case studies that offer readers informative snapshots of how these relations are changing on the ground, in the lived realities of our daily communication habits.

Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas

Author : Adriana Angel
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271089466
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas written by Adriana Angel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy is venerated in US political culture, in part because it is our democracy. As a result, we assume that the government and institutions of the United States represent the true and right form of democracy, needed by all. This volume challenges this commonplace belief by putting US politics in the context of the Americas more broadly. Seeking to cultivate conversations among and between the hemispheres, this collection examines local political rhetorics across the Americas. The contributors—scholars of communication from both North and South America—recognize democratic ideals as irreducible to a single national perspective and reflect on the ways social minorities in the Western Hemisphere engage in unique political discourses. The essays consider current rhetorics in the United States on American exceptionalism, immigration, citizenship, and land rights alongside current cultural and political events in Latin America, such as corruption in Guatemala, women’s activism in Ciudad Juárez, representation in Venezuela, and media bias in Brazil. Through a survey of these rhetorics, this volume provides a broad analysis of democracy. It highlights institutional and cultural differences in the Americas and presents a hemispheric democracy that is both more pluralistic and more agonistic than what is believed about the system in the United States. In addition to the editors, the contributors include José Cortez, Linsay M. Cramer, Pamela Flores, Alberto González, Amy N. Heuman, Christa J. Olson, Carlos Piovezani, Clara Eugenia Rojas Blanco, Abraham Romney, René Agustín de los Santos, and Alejandra Vitale.

Homeless Advocacy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Civic Home

Author : Melanie Loehwing
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271083069
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Homeless Advocacy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Civic Home written by Melanie Loehwing and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeless assistance has frequently adhered to the “three hots and a cot” model, which prioritizes immediate material needs but may fail to address the political and social exclusion of people experiencing homelessness. In this study, Loehwing reconsiders typical characterizations of homelessness, citizenship, and democratic community through unconventional approaches to homeless advocacy and assistance. While conventional homeless advocacy rhetoric establishes the urgency of homeless suffering, it also implicitly invites housed publics to understand homelessness as a state of abnormality that destines the individuals suffering it to life outside the civic body. In contrast, Loehwing focuses on atypical models of homeless advocacy: the meal-sharing initiatives of Food Not Bombs, the international competition of the Homeless World Cup, and the annual Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day campaign. She argues that these modes of unconventional homeless advocacy provide rhetorical exemplars of a type of inclusive and empowering civic discourse that is missing from conventional homeless advocacy and may be indispensable for overcoming homeless marginalization and exclusion in contemporary democratic culture. Loehwing’s interrogation of homeless advocacy rhetorics demonstrates how discursive practices shape democratic culture and how they may provide a potential civic remedy to the harms of disenfranchisement, discrimination, and displacement. This book will be welcomed by scholars whose work focuses on the intersections of democratic theory and rhetorical and civic studies, as well as by homelessness advocacy groups.

Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age

Author : Marouf Hasian
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817318925
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age written by Marouf Hasian and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age posits a framework for the scholarly community, policy makers, and lay readers for understanding the legal and military aspects of drone warfare.