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What democracy looks like : the rhetoric of social movements and counterpublics /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Foust, Christina R. (Editor), Pason, Amy, 1981- (Editor), Rogness, Kate Zittlow (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2017]
Series:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Subjects:
Social movements.
Social change.
Rhetoric.
Democracy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rhetoric and the Study of Social Change / Amy Pason, Christina R. Foust, and Kate Zittlow Rogness; I. Problematizing the Past of Social Movement Rhetoric and Counterpublic Research; 1. Social Movement Scholarship: A Retrospective/Prospective Review / Raymie E. McKerrow; 2. "Social Movement Rhetoric": A Critical Genealogy, Post-1980 / Christina R. Foust; 3. Counterpublic Theory Goes Global: A Chronicle of a Concept's Emergences and Mobilities / Daniel C. Brouwer and Marie-Louise Paulesc
  • II. Distinguishing and Performing Counterpublics and Movements through Case Studies 4. Phenomenon or Meaning? A Tale of Two Occupies / Amy Pason; 5. Pledge-a-Picketer, Power, Protest, and Publicity: Explaining Protest When the State/Establishment Is Not the Opposition / Catherine Helen Palczewski and Kelsey Harr-Lagin; 6. (Re)turning to the Private Sphere: SlutWalks' Public Negotiation of Privacy / Kate Zittlow Rogness; 7. Against Equality: Finding the Movement in Rhetorical Criticism of Social Movements / Karma R. Chávez with Yasmin Nair and Ryan Conrad
  • III. New Directions for Studying Social Movements and Counterpublics Rhetorically 8. Latina/o Vernacular Discourse: Theorizing Performative Dimensions of an Other Counterpublic / Bernadette Marie Calafell and Dawn Marie D. McIntosh; 9. Activism in the Wake of the Events of China and Social Media: Abandoning the Domesticated Rituals of Democracy to Explore the Dangers of Wild Public Screens / Kevin Michael DeLuca and Elizabeth Brunner; 10. WikiLeaks and Its Production of the Common: An Exploration of Rhetorical Agency in the Neoliberal Era / Catherine Chaput and Joshua S. Hanan.