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Ecologies of harm : rhetorics of violence in the United States /

"Examines the rhetoric around spectacles of organized public violence in lynching, capital punishment, and the torture in the War on Terror. Argues for an ecological approach to the ways rhetoric and violence function together to sustain inhospitable spaces and create challenges for antiviolenc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eatman, Megan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Series:New directions in rhetoric and materiality.
Subjects:
Violence in language > United States.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > United States.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States.
Communication > Social aspects > United States.
Communication > Political aspects > United States.
Communication > Political aspects.
Communication > Social aspects.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Violence in language.
United States.
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Summary:"Examines the rhetoric around spectacles of organized public violence in lynching, capital punishment, and the torture in the War on Terror. Argues for an ecological approach to the ways rhetoric and violence function together to sustain inhospitable spaces and create challenges for antiviolence work"--
Physical Description:ix, 173 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index.
ISBN:9780814214343
0814214347
9780814255728
0814255728