Quiet Defiance: The Rhetoric of Silent Protest focuses on the rhetorical dimensions and power of silent protest. Bridging the gap between the study of protest and the study of rhetorical silence (strategic silence meant to communicate to and influence an audience), this book is the first of its kind to concentrate solely on the phenomenon and tradition of silent protest. The contributors to this volume hail from different cultures, disciplines, and fields. They examine past and present-day cases of silent protest with different research questions and paradigmatic perspectives in mind and methodological approaches at hand. Collectively, however, their original chapters offer a rich, multifaceted understanding of the potentialities, limits, nature, effects, risks and rewards of silent acts of protest—individual or otherwise—against oppressive, unjust regimes and systems of power.
This book focuses on the rhetorical dimensions, power, potentialities, and constraints of silent protest.
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Quiet Defiance: A Rhetoric Silent Protest is a thought-provoking collection, offering insight into forms of silent resistance that range from blank signs to prison strikes to nonvoting. Individual chapters offer fresh perspective on these and other cases. As a whole, the collection takes seriously and engages meaningfully with the scholarly traditions around each of its key terms, rhetoric, silence, and protest, and will be an invaluable resource for scholars interested in these areas. -- Michelle Gibbons, University of New Hampshire These essays are both focused and far-reaching, suggesting new avenues for the study of both protest rhetoric and nonverbal/non-logocentric rhetoric. In a world with almost too many words, sometimes a lack of words can speak most powerfully ... Highly recommended [ for] general readers through faculty; professionals. * CHOICE *
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This book focuses on the rhetorical dimensions, power, potentialities, and constraints of silent protest.
Introduction
David W. Seitz
Part I: Silence, Presence, and Absence
Chapter 1: Speaking in Silence: Rhetoric, Rancière, and the Blank Sign
Protests of 2022
Michael Vicaro
Chapter 2: Vigils for Peace: Silent Presence as Political Action
D. Graham Burnett
Chapter 3: Embodying Absence: Silence and Death at ACT UPs 1992 Ashes
Action
Jeffrey B. Nagel
Chapter 4: Silence as Political Engagement: Student-Led Silent Protests
Advocating for LGBTQ+ Youth
Kevin R. Meyer and Stephen K. Hunt
Chapter 5: The Rhetoric of Silence as Embodiment: Georgia Prisoners 2010
Lockdown for Liberty
Nick J. Sciullo
Part II: On Colin Kaepernick
Chapter 6: Embodying Resistance: Situating Kaepernicks Performative Symbolic
Resistance as an Emic Perspective
Alicia K. Hatcher
Chapter 7: The Silence and the Fury: Colin Kaepernick, Athletic Protest, and
Noisy Affects
Dafna Kaufman and Jaclyn Olson
Chapter 8: I Just Couldnt Be a Sellout: Understanding Rihannas Absence
during the 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show through Speech Acts Theory
Julia C. Richmond
Part III: In Defense of Womens Rights
Chapter 9: Silence and Commercial Sex Work: Performing Silence as Strategy,
Resistance, and the Articulation of Alternative Perspectives
Satarupa Dasgupta
Chapter 10: Under Their Eyes: The Visuality of Handmaids as Resistance in
Transnational Womens Rights Protests
Annie Hui
Chapter 11: The Woman, Life, Freedom Movement: Social Media Videos of Women
Cutting Hair and
Burning Hijabs and the Rhetoric of Silent Protest
Nune Grigoryan
Chapter 12: Red Card Qatar: Human Rights Protests at World Cup 2022
Megan OByrne
Part IV: Silent Protest and the Digital Landscape
Chapter 13: From Protest to Solidarity: How the Digital Era is Changing the
Volume of Silence
Jessica L. Neu
Chapter 14: Dont Mistake My Silence as Not Caring: Discourses of Nonvoters
on Twitter
Alison N. Novak
Chapter 15: Silent Protests in and for the AttentionSphere: A Rhetorical
Methodology for Studying Attention
David Landes
Chapter 16: Silent Protest and Cruel Imitation in Hong Kongs Umbrella
Movement
Dominic J. Manthey and Keren Wang
Index
About the Contributors
David W. Seitz is associate professor of communication at Penn State Mont Alto.
