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Radical Advocate
Ida B. Wells and the Road to Race and Gender Justice
University of Alabama Press
Pleasure and Pain in US Public Culture
University of Alabama Press
Unraveling the intricate dance of pleasure and pain in contemporary American culture
The Haunted West
Memory and Commemoration at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
University of Alabama Press
An engrossing exploration of conflicting and complex narratives about the American West and its Native American heritage, violent colonial settlement, and natural history
Oligarchy in America
Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few
By Luke Winslow
University of Alabama Press
A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs
The Way to Hell
Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times
By Nathan Crick
University of Alabama Press
An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises
The Way to Hell
Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times
By Nathan Crick
University of Alabama Press
An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises
Fitter, Happier
The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric
University of Alabama Press
Examines the complexity of public language about cancer, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of US cancer rhetorics during the twentieth century
The Case for Single Motherhood
Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations
University of Alabama Press
Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought—and continue to seek—to legitimize their maternal identities and family formations
Dreamer Nation
Immigration, Activism, and Neoliberalism
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates how the Dreamer community was created rhetorically—in the discourse, messages, actions, and visual representations of undocumented youth
Tense Times
Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in US Crisis Culture
University of Alabama Press
How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describes
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport's Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
University of Alabama Press
A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoric
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport’s Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
University of Alabama Press
A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoric
Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis
A Geologic Rhetoric
University of Alabama Press
A rhetorical exploration of an underexamined side of climate change—the ongoing research into and development of geoengineering strategies
The Practice of Rhetoric
Poetics, Performance, Philosophy
Edited by Debra Hawhee and Vessela Valiavitcharska
University of Alabama Press
Essays that show what a broad conception of rhetoric means and does in relation to practice
The Rhetoric of Fascism
Edited by Nathan Crick
University of Alabama Press
Highlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appeals
Faithful Deliberation
Rhetorical Invention, Evangelicalism, and #MeToo Reckonings
By T J Geiger
University of Alabama Press
Investigates the rhetorical practices used by contemporary evangelical Christian women to confront theological and cultural issues that stymie deliberation within their communities
Reframing Rhetorical History
Cases, Theories, and Methodologies
Edited by Kathleen J. Turner and Jason Edward Black; Preface by Kathleen J. Turner; Introduction by Jason Edward Black
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays providing insights into new directions in rhetorical history
Climate Politics on the Border
Environmental Justice Rhetorics
University of Alabama Press
Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border community
I the People
The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States
University of Alabama Press
A rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatism
Suburban Dreams
Imagining and Building the Good Life
University of Alabama Press
Explores how the suburban imaginary, composed of the built environment and imaginative texts, functions as a resource for living out the “good life”
Heritage and Hate
Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities
University of Alabama Press
How southern universities continue to wrestle with the words and symbols that embody and perpetuate Old South traditions
Laying Claim
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
University of Alabama Press
Explores the practices and cultural institutions that define and sustain African American “southernness,” demonstrating that southern identity is more expansive than traditional narratives that center on white culture
Decoding the Digital Church
Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump
University of Alabama Press
A nuanced look at the rhetorical narratives used by conservative Republicans and evangelicals to make both personal and political choices
Interpreting Sacred Ground
The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields
University of Alabama Press
Interpreting Sacred Ground is a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions—and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity—compete for dominance.
Feminist Connections
Rhetoric and Activism across Time, Space, and Place
Edited by Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette; Foreword by Tarez Samra Graban; Afterword by Kristine L. Blair
University of Alabama Press
Highlights feminist rhetorical practices that disrupt and surpass boundaries of time and space
Architects of Memory
Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age
University of Alabama Press
Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency
Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions
By Ian Barnard
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender
Lives, Letters, and Quilts
Women and Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance
University of Alabama Press
How writers, activists, and artists without power resist dominant social, cultural, and political structures through the deployment of unconventional means and materials
Rhetorical Machines
Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics
University of Alabama Press
A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice
Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life
University of Alabama Press
A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment
The Mark of Criminality
Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop
Citizen Science in the Digital Age
Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement
By James Wynn
University of Alabama Press
A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection
Friendship Fictions
The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary
University of Alabama Press
Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual’s participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.
Desiring the Bomb
Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age
University of Alabama Press
A timely interdisciplinary study that applies psychoanalysis and the rhetorical tradition of the sublime to examine the cultural aftermath of the Atomic Age
Field Rhetoric
Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion
Edited by Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke; Introduction by Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke; Afterword by Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo and Gerard A. Hauser
University of Alabama Press
A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric and fieldwork
Lacan in Public
Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric
University of Alabama Press
Lacan in Public argues that Lacan’s contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan’s entire body of work.
Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks
Edited by Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister; Preface by Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister; Introduction by Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister
University of Alabama Press
An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: ancient rhetoric and digitally networked communication
Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things
University of Alabama Press
Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things is the first book-length collection of essays that explore the vibrant materiality of everyday objects in rhetorical theory, practice, and writing. It examines how things such as food, bicycles, and typewriters can influence history and sociality.
What Democracy Looks Like
The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Edited by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness; Introduction by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness
University of Alabama Press
A compelling and timely collection that combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies
The Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
By Brett Ommen
University of Alabama Press
The Politics of the Superficial argues that the increasing volume of visually communicative surfaces in public life contributes to a very particular form of public imagination and political activity.
Democracy's Lot
Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention
By Candice Rai
University of Alabama Press
Traces the communication strategies of various constituencies in a Chicago neighborhood, offering insights into the challenges that beset diverse urban populations and demonstrating persuasively rhetoric’s power to illuminate and resolve charged conflicts
The Motherhood Business
Consumption, Communication, and Privilege
University of Alabama Press
The essays in The Motherhood Business examine how consumer culture both constrains and empowers contemporary motherhood. The collection demonstrates that the logic of consumerism and entrepreneurship has redefined both the experience of mothering and the marketplace.
The Everest Effect
Nature, Culture, Ideology
University of Alabama Press
The Everest Effect is an accessibly written cultural history of how nature, technology, and culture have worked together to turn Mount Everest into a powerful and ubiquitous physical measure of Western values.
Banning Queer Blood
Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance
University of Alabama Press
Frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship
Inside the Teaching Machine
Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University
University of Alabama Press
Inside the Teaching Machine argues that the U.S. public research university has always been a vital component of the capitalist political economy. Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments often ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy.
Rhetorical Exposures
Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography
University of Alabama Press
In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present in order to illuminate the political dimensions and consequences of photographs taken and selected to highlight social injustice.
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