"The Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power 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 handbook 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 specifichistorical, technological, political, and economic conditions, and 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"--
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.
The Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power represents the first comprehensive disciplinary investigation into the relationship between rhetoric and power as it is expressed in different aspects of society.
1 Prolegomena to Future Inquiry into Rhetoric and Power Nathan Crick
Part
1. Theoretical Foundations 2 Infraontology: Rhetoric, Insurgency,
Abolition Omedi Ochieng 3 Economic New Materialism and the Invention of
Affective Possibilities Catherine Chaput 4 Political Style, Formalism, and
the Anthropocene Robert Hariman 5 Abolitionist John Brown, Gun Clubs, and the
Rhetoric of Physical Violence Jay P. Childers 6 The Universe of Things: Power
in a More than Human World Kevin Michael DeLuca and Joshua Trey Barnett 7 The
Rhetorical Analysis of Unconscious Forms of Persuasion Michael Lane Bruner
Part
2. Propaganda, Politics, and the State 8 Culturally Sensitive
Engagement: Enabling Citizen Deliberation in Transportation Needs Rebecca M.
Townsend and Mary Rosado 9 Rhetorical Criticism as the Art of Questioning
What We Take for Granted: An Inquiry into the American Dream Jeremy Engels,
Tiara Good, John Minbiole, William Saas and Frank Stec 10 Moralizing an
Electoral Crisis: The Rhetoric of Moral Words in Ghanas 2020 Election
Dispute Nancy Henaku 11 This is Not Who We are as a Nation: Theorizing
Collective Identity in the US Mary E. Stuckey 12 A Hestian Defense of the
Oikos: The Authoritarian Mother Persona of Sarah Huckabee Sanders Valerie
Palmer-Mehta Part
3. Resistance and Social Movements 13 Soup, Glue, and Art:
Iconoclasm from Below in Just Stop Oils Use of Image Events James Collins
and Roberta Chevrette 14 The Power of Mutual Aid and Care Amy Pason 15 How
Can We Use This to Create Power?: Revisiting the Rhetoric of
Consciousness-Raising for Intersectional Solidarity Dana L. Cloud 16 Meredith
and the Monument: The Ecology of Memory at the University of Mississippi Dave
Tell 17 Body Rhetoric: Containing the Filthy Body of Irish Republicanism in
Long Kesh Prison Kate Siegfried Part
4. Culture, Society, and Identity 18
Apocalyptic Rhetoric and Settler Power: Lessons for the End Times in Eruption
Santhosh Chandrashekar and Christina R. Foust 19 In Search of a Verb: An
Affective Rhetorical Criticism of The Hill We Climb Lee M. Pierce 20
Prophets, Presidents, and Democracy Theon Edward Hill 21 The Bamboozle of the
Funny: Conservative Comedic Counterfeit Resilience Liz Sills 22 Birmingham
is Really on Mars: White Innocence and A Good Conscience Raquel M. Robvais
23 Collective Rewor(l)ding in the Wreckage of Hauntings and Haunting
Situations Romeo Garcia, Jenna Zan, Muath Qadous, Mitzi Ceballos, Keith L.
McDonald and Sabit Bastakotia Part
5. Discourses of Technique and
Organization 24 AI Chatbots, Translative Rhetoric, and the Future of Public
Discourse G. Mitchell Reyes 25 Out of Time: The Spectacular Temporalities of
Border Crisis Lisa A. Flores and Mikayla Torres 26 Drawing the Line:
Independent Commissions as Deliberative Spaces for Citizen Driven
Redistricting Ron VonBurg and Marcus Paroske 27 Conflict Narratives of
Competitive Victimhood: On the Storied Dis/Organization of Collective Action
Anna Wiederhold Wolfe 28 Material Forces in the Brain Sciences: A
Neuro-Ontological Compliment to Neurorhetorics David Gruber Part
6. Prospects
for the Future 29 Soy Porque Somos: Touring and Planting Trees as Convivial
Rhetoric on a Precarious Planet Kundai Chirindo and Phaedra C. Pezzullo 30
Chastened Humanism and Metabolic Transcendence Ira Allen 31 Apocalypsis,
Truth, and Cultural Anxiety E. Johanna Hartelius 32 From Black Twitter to
Musks X: A Case Study in Rhetoric, Media, Culture, and Power Alisa Hardy,
Matthew Salzano and Damien Smith Pfister 33 Rhetorical Powermapping:
Converging Solidarities for Translocal Ecological Justice Constance Gordon 34
On the Solidarity of Species: Cybernetics, Biopolitics, and the Future of
Human Unity Jeff Pruchnic
Nathan Crick is Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University, USA. His recent books include Rhetorical Public Speaking, 4th edition (Routledge, 2022) and The Rhetoric of Social Movements (Routledge, 2020).
