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Rhetoric and Public Affairs 22, No. 1

Author : Martin J. Medhurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684300884
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Public Affairs 22, No. 1 written by Martin J. Medhurst and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Issue Articles Michael L. Butterworth, "George W. Bush as the 'Man in the Arena': Baseball, Public Memory, and the Rhetorical Redemption of a President" Eric C. Miller and James E. Towns, "'The Protestant Contention': Religious Freedom, Respectability Politics, and W. A. Criswell in 1960" Katie L. Garahan, "The Public Work of Identity Performance: Advocacy and Dissent in Teachers' Open Letters" Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli, "Scientist Citizens: Rhetoric and Responsibility in L'Aquila" Review Essay Jason Edward Black and Vernon Ray Harrison, "On Contemporary Contours of Public Memory" Book Review Candice Rai, Democracy's Lot: Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention, reviewed by Bridie McGreavy Elizabeth Benacka, Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert, reviewed by Michael Phillips-Anderson Michael Donnelly, Freedom of Speech and the Function of Rhetoric in the United States, reviewed by Matthew A. Ray Cheryl Glenn and Andrea Lunsford, Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Feminism, 1973-2000, reviewed by Rosalyn Collings Eves Kathleen J. Ryan, Nancy Myers, and Rebecca Jones, Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric, reviewed by Brittany Knutson Robin E. Jensen, Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term, reviewed by Tasha N. Dubriwny Jiyeon Kang, Igniting the Internet: Youth and Activism in Postauthoritarian South Korea, reviewed by Damien Smith-Pfister

The Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power

Author : Nathan Crick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040130100
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power written by Nathan Crick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-04 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Securing the Prize

Author : Randall Fowler
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643365495
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Securing the Prize written by Randall Fowler and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2024-11-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How presidential metaphors have shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf From the 1970s to the 1990s American presidents and their advisers introduced four metaphors into foreign-policy discourse that taught Americans to view the Persian Gulf as a vulnerable region and site of US responsibility on the world stage. In Securing the Prize: Presidential Metaphor and US Intervention in the Persian Gulf, Randall Fowler argues that, for half a century, metaphor has been central to defining America's role in the Middle East. Metaphors served as shorthand for presidents to promote their policies, filtering through the judgments of officials, journalists, experts, and critics to mediate American perceptions of the Gulf War. Tracing the use of security metaphors from President Richard Nixon to President George W. Bush, Fowler revises mainstream understandings regarding the origins of the War on Terror and explains the disconnect between skeptical public attitudes toward US involvement in the Gulf War and the heavy American military footprint in the region.

Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects

Author : Thomas Houlton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429588828
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects written by Thomas Houlton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social, and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument-culture. Tracing historical developments in monuments alongside contemporary movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter, Houlton provides an in-depth critique of monument sites, as well as new critical and conceptual methodologies for thinking across the field. Alongside analysis of monuments to the Holocaust, colonial figures, and LGBTQIA+ subjects, this book provides new critical engagements with the work of D.W. Winnicott, Marion Milner, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, and others. Houlton traces the potential for monuments to exert great influence over our sense of self, nation, community, sexuality, and place in the world. Exploring the psychic and physical spaces these objects occupy—their aesthetics, affects, politics, and powers—this book considers how monuments can challenge our identities, beliefs, and our very notions of remembrance. The interdisciplinary nature of Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects means that it is ideally placed to intervene across several critical fields, particularly museum and heritage studies. It will also prove invaluable to those engaged in the study of monuments, psychoanalytic object relations, decolonization, queer ecology, radical death studies, and affect theory.

The World Is Our Stage

Author : Allison M. Prasch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226823660
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 2023-01-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit to West Berlin, with his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, is seared into the national memory as a powerful image of a U.S. president on the world stage. When thinking about key presidential moments in international relations like Kennedy in Berlin, we often focus our attention on the speeches themselves. Professor Allison Prasch wants to treat us to a wider view-one that places these speeches in their physical context and allows us to grasp the intentional embodied nature of these carefully orchestrated international trips. In The World Is Our Stage, Prasch takes us along for the ride as Cold War U.S. presidents travel the world to assert power and influence. Drawing on extensive archival research, Prasch examines five representative moments that reveal how the "global rhetorical presidency" evolved during the Cold War: Harry S. Truman's 1945 participation in the Potsdam Conference, Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1959-60 "Good Will" tours, John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit to West Berlin, Richard Nixon's "Opening to China" in 1971-72, and Ronald Reagan's 1984 commemoration of D-Day in Normandy. Prasch uses these key events show how multiple presidential administrations and other government agencies designed these global tours as dynamic persuasive campaigns. As the body of the U.S. president traveled through and encircled the globe, it symbolically extended the spatial reach of U.S. ideology and elevated the nation's place in the Cold War world order"--

Microhistories of Communication Studies

Author : Pat J. Gehrke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317247191
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Microhistories of Communication Studies written by Pat J. Gehrke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an academic discipline is usually conveyed in grand movements and long spans, but it can also be told through the lives of individual scholars, through the development of specialties, through the creation and change of departments, and through the formation and transformation of organizations. Using twelve histories of micro-dimensions of communication studies, this volume shows how sometimes small decisions, single scholars, individual departments, and marginalized voices can have dramatic roles in the history and future of an academic discipline. As a compilation of micro-histories with macro-lessons this volume stands alone in communication studies. Read as a companion to A Century of Communication Studies, the National Communication Association’s centennial volume, it offers rich detail, missing links, and local narratives that fully flesh out the discipline. In either case, no education in communication studies is complete without an understanding of the themes, challenges, and triumphs embodied by the twelve micro-histories offered in this book. This book was originally published as two special issues of Review of Communication.

Unsettling Archival Research

Author : Gesa Kirsch
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809338955
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling Archival Research written by Gesa Kirsch and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection shed light on how tactical archival practices can decenter, reshape, and unsettle traditional archival methodologies. Contributors include established scholars, emerging scholars, doctoral candidates, and critical archival scholars.

Reckless Disregard

Author : Eric P. Robinson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807170186
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Reckless Disregard written by Eric P. Robinson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the landmark United States Supreme Court decision on libel law in New York Times v. Sullivan, the court ruled on a number of additional cases that continued to shape the standards of protected speech. As part of this key series of judgments, the justices explored the contours of the Sullivan ruling and established the definition of “reckless disregard” as it pertains to “actual malice” in the case of St. Amant v. Thompson. While an array of scholarly and legal literature examines Sullivan and some subsequent cases, the St. Amant case—once called “the most important of the recent Supreme Court libel decisions”—has not received the attention it warrants. Eric P. Robinson’s Reckless Disregard corrects this omission with a thorough analysis of the case and its ramifications. The history of St. Amant v. Thompson begins with the contentious 1962 U.S. Senate primary election in Louisiana, between incumbent Russell Long and businessman Philemon “Phil” A. St. Amant. The initial lawsuit stemmed from a televised campaign address in which St. Amant attempted to demonstrate Long’s alleged connections with organized crime and corrupt union officials. Although St. Amant’s claims had no effect on the outcome of the election, a little-noticed statement he made during the address—that money had “passed hands” between Baton Rouge Teamsters leader Ed Partin and East Baton Rouge Parish deputy sheriff Herman A. Thompson—led to a defamation lawsuit that ultimately passed through the legal system to the Supreme Court. A decisive step in the journey toward the robust protections that American courts provide to comments about public officials, public figures, and matters of public interest, St. Amant v. Thompson serves as a significant development in modern American defamation law. Robinson’s study deftly examines the background of the legal proceedings as well as their social and political context. His analysis of how the Supreme Court ruled in this case reveals the justices’ internal deliberations, shedding new light on a judgment that forever changed American libel law.

The Rhetorics of US Immigration

Author : E. Johanna Hartelius
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271076534
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetorics of US Immigration written by E. Johanna Hartelius and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current geopolitical climate—in which unaccompanied children cross the border in record numbers, and debates on the topic swing violently from pole to pole—the subject of immigration demands innovative inquiry. In The Rhetorics of US Immigration, some of the most prominent and prolific scholars in immigration studies come together to discuss the many facets of immigration rhetoric in the United States. The Rhetorics of US Immigration provides readers with an integrated sense of the rhetorical multiplicity circulating among and about immigrants. Whereas extant literature on immigration rhetoric tends to focus on the media, this work extends the conversation to the immigrants themselves, among others. A collection whose own eclecticism highlights the complexity of the issue, The Rhetorics of US Immigration is not only a study in the language of immigration but also a frank discussion of who is doing the talking and what it means for the future. From questions of activism, authority, and citizenship to the influence of Hollywood, the LGBTQ community, and the church, The Rhetorics of US Immigration considers the myriad venues in which the American immigration question emerges—and the interpretive framework suited to account for it. Along with the editor, the contributors are Claudia Anguiano, Karma R. Chávez, Terence Check, Jay P. Childers, J. David Cisneros, Lisa M. Corrigan, D. Robert DeChaine, Anne Teresa Demo, Dina Gavrilos, Emily Ironside, Christine Jasken, Yazmin Lazcano-Pry, Michael Lechuga, and Alessandra B. Von Burg.

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.

Deportable and Disposable

Author : Lisa A. Flores
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271088672
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Deportable and Disposable written by Lisa A. Flores and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, the US government passed legislation against undocumented entry into the country, and as a result the figure of the “illegal alien” took form in the national discourse. In this book, Lisa A. Flores explores the history of our language about Mexican immigrants and exposes how our words made these migrants “illegal.” Deportable and Disposable brings a rhetorical lens to a question that has predominantly concerned historians: how do differently situated immigrant populations come to belong within the national space of whiteness, and thus of American-ness? Flores presents a genealogy of our immigration discourse through four stereotypes: the “illegal alien,” a foreigner and criminal who quickly became associated with Mexican migrants; the “bracero,” a docile Mexican contract laborer; the “zoot suiter,” a delinquent Mexican American youth engaged in gang culture; and the “wetback,” an unwanted migrant who entered the country by swimming across the Rio Grande. By showing how these figures were constructed, Flores provides insight into the ways in which we racialize language and how we can transform our political rhetoric to ensure immigrant populations come to belong as part of the country, as Americans. Timely, thoughtful, and eye-opening, Deportable and Disposable initiates a necessary conversation about the relationship between racial rhetoric and the literal and figurative borders of the nation. This powerful book will inform policy makers, scholars, activists, and anyone else interested in race, rhetoric, and immigration in the United States.

Arguing with Numbers

Author : James Wynn
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271089210
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Arguing with Numbers written by James Wynn and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As discrete fields of inquiry, rhetoric and mathematics have long been considered antithetical to each other. That is, if mathematics explains or describes the phenomena it studies with certainty, persuasion is not needed. This volume calls into question the view that mathematics is free of rhetoric. Through nine studies of the intersections between these two disciplines, Arguing with Numbers shows that mathematics is in fact deeply rhetorical. Using rhetoric as a lens to analyze mathematically based arguments in public policy, political and economic theory, and even literature, the essays in this volume reveal how mathematics influences the values and beliefs with which we assess the world and make decisions and how our worldviews influence the kinds of mathematical instruments we construct and accept. In addition, contributors examine how concepts of rhetoric—such as analogy and visuality—have been employed in mathematical and scientific reasoning, including in the theorems of mathematical physicists and the geometrical diagramming of natural scientists. Challenging academic orthodoxy, these scholars reject a math-equals-truth reduction in favor of a more constructivist theory of mathematics as dynamic, evolving, and powerfully persuasive. By bringing these disparate lines of inquiry into conversation with one another, Arguing with Numbers provides inspiration to students, established scholars, and anyone inside or outside rhetorical studies who might be interested in exploring the intersections between the two disciplines. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Catherine Chaput, Crystal Broch Colombini, Nathan Crick, Michael Dreher, Jeanne Fahnestock, Andrew C. Jones, Joseph Little, and Edward Schiappa.

The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity

Author : Leslie J Harris
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1609177339
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity written by Leslie J Harris and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, the white slavery panic pervaded American politics, influencing the creation of the FBI, the enactment of immigration law, and the content of international treaties. At the core of this controversy was the maintenance of white national space. In this comprehensive account of the Progressive Era’s sex trafficking rhetoric, Leslie Harris demonstrates the centrality of white womanhood, as a symbolic construct, to the structure of national space and belonging. Introducing the framework of the mobile imagination to read across different scales of the controversy—ranging from local to transnational—she establishes how the imaginative possibilities of mobility within public controversy work to constitute belonging in national space.

Reframing Rhetorical History

Author : Kathleen J. Turner
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817360506
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Reframing Rhetorical History written by Kathleen J. Turner and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collection of essays that reassesses history as rhetoric and rhetorical history as practice "--

Peculiar Rhetoric

Author : Bjorn F. Stillion Southard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496823737
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Peculiar Rhetoric written by Bjorn F. Stillion Southard and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the Public Address Division of the National Communication Association The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of freedom, but not within America’s borders. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard indicates how politics and identity were negotiated amid the intense public debate on race, slavery, and freedom in America. Operating from a position of power, white advocates argued that colonization was worthy of massive support from the federal government. Stillion Southard pores over the speeches of Henry Clay, Elias B. Caldwell, and Abraham Lincoln, which engaged with colonization during its active deliberation. Between Clay’s and Caldwell’s speeches at the founding of the American Colonization Society (ACS) in 1816 and Lincoln’s final public effort to encourage colonization in 1862, Stillion Southard analyzes the little-known speeches and writings of free blacks who wrestled with colonization’s conditional promises of freedom. He examines an array of discourses to probe the complex issues of identity confronting free blacks who attempted to meaningfully engage in colonization efforts. From a peculiarly voiced “Counter Memorial” against the ACS to the letters of wealthy black merchant Louis Sheridan negotiating for his passage to Liberia to the civically minded orations of Hilary Teage in Liberia, Stillion Southard brings to light the intricate rhetoric of blacks who addressed colonization to Africa.

The Gifting Logos

Author : E. Johanna Hartelius
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520339630
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Gifting Logos written by E. Johanna Hartelius and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons provides an extensive analysis of knowledge and creativity in twenty-first century networked culture. Analyzing massive projects like the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive, and the Creative Commons licenses, The Gifting Logos responds to a fundamental question, What does it mean to know something and to make something? With the idea of a gifting logos, Hartelius integrates three habits of a rhetorical epistemology: the invention of cultural materials such as text, images, and software; the imbuing or encoding of the materials with the creator’s experience; and the constitution and dissemination of the materials as gifts.

The Rhetoric of Official Apologies

Author : Lisa S. Villadsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793621810
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Official Apologies written by Lisa S. Villadsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rhetoric of Official Apologies: Critical Essays focuses on the many challenges associated with performing a speech act on behalf of a collective and the concomitant issues of rhetorically tackling the multiple political, social, and philosophical issues at stake when a collective issues an official apology to a group of victims. Contributors address questions of whether collective remorse is possible or credible, how official apologies can be evaluated, who can issue apologies on behalf of whom, and whether there are certain kinds of wrongdoing that simply can’t be addressed in the form of an official apology. Collectively, the book speaks to the relevance of conceptualizing official apologies more broadly as serving multiple rhetorical purposes that span ceremonial and political genres and represent a potentially powerful form of collective self-reflection necessary for political and social advancement.