Strategies of moral casting in political arenas : actor identifications as assets in political persuasion /
This timely collection develops concepts and refines research methods to better understand contemporary strategies in political persuasion. The book introduces an innovative analytical framework to explore dramaturgical rhetoric, applicable across various public arenas ranging from policy-making to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2026]
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| Series: | Rhetoric, politics, and society series.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations
- Chapter 1: Introduction - Epistemic governance meets membership categorization
- Chapter 2: Conceptualizing evaluative identifications in politics - The rhetorical effects of organizing actors into morally persuasive interrelational scenes
- Part 2: Policy-Making & Governance: Combating External Threats in National Policy-Making
- Chapter 3: Intro: Scaffolding arguments for institutional legitimacy and trust - Moral casting in justifications by governing politicians
- Chapter 4: Regulating Moral Alibis to Safeguard Political Responsibility: The Case of the Troika's Intervention in Portugal
- Chapter 5: History and continuity in political rhetoric: Articulating actor categorisations in Russian Foreign Agent Legislation
- Part 3: News Media: Addressing Us Through Attributing A Third In National News
- Chapter 6: Intro: Staging public opinion formation and collective identifications - Moral casting and societization in journalistic news texts
- Chapter 7: Victim or traitor? Domesticating "Alexei Navalny" in Finnish, German and Russian news reporting
- Chapter 8: The moral effects of framing Eurovision news on Israel - Netta Barzilai, a good agent who brought victory to a reprehensible country
- Part 4: Civic Activism- Mobilizing Action Online to Change Gender Relations
- Chapter 9: Intro: Agitating political agency through relational constellations - Moral casting and mobilization of citizens in online videos
- Chapter 10: "Are you furious because of African cannibals infesting Europe?" - A case of rhetorical failure in Hungarian far-right activism
- Chapter 11: Validating testimonial knowledge - Category work in activism against gender-based violence in melodramatic visual production
- Part 5: Closing
- Chapter 12: Identifications, membership categorization, and epistemic governance: an epilogue.