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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.
Stepping Into Zion
Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity
University of Alabama Press
Considers the question “Who is a Jew?”— a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike
Conceiving Normalcy
Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility
University of Alabama Press
This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible
Reclaiming Queer
Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance
By Erin J. Rand
University of Alabama Press
An examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s
Rhetorical Secrets
Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America
University of Alabama Press
Gay male identity as a product of rhetoric and public discourse in modern America.
The Border Crossed Us
Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity
University of Alabama Press
Explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity
Soapbox Rebellion
The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
University of Alabama Press
Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle.
Rhetoric and the Republic
Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America
University of Alabama Press
Casts a revealing light on modern cultural conflicts through the lens of rhetorical education.
In the Name of Necessity
Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties
University of Alabama Press
Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus
Founding Fictions
University of Alabama Press
An extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845
Border Rhetorics
Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
University of Alabama Press
Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States
Hearing the Hurt
Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement
University of Alabama Press
Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.