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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.
Poets Beyond the Barricade
Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960
University of Alabama Press
A study of how poetry and discussions of it shape public consciousness, from the socially volatile era of the 1960s to the War on Terror today.
What Are Stem Cells?
Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics
University of Alabama Press
In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have waged an ethical debate regarding the development and research of embryonic stem cells. On the one hand, does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human life? On the other hand, do limitations imposed on stem cell research harm the patients who might otherwise benefit?
Global Memoryscapes
Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age
Edited by Kendall R. Phillips and G. Mitchell Reyes
University of Alabama Press
Global Memoryscapesis a collection of eight essays examining the effects of a global society on the collective memories and identities of individual cultures.
Modern Occult Rhetoric
Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century
By Joshua Gunn
University of Alabama Press
A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse.
The House of My Sojourn
Rhetoric, Women, and the Question of Authority
University of Alabama Press
Envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within
Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity
The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror
University of Alabama Press
An investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way
Places of Public Memory
The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials
University of Alabama Press
A sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric
Scientific Characters
Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research
By Lisa Keränen
University of Alabama Press
Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: “Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade.” Moving back and forth between news coverage, medical journals, letters to the editor, and oncology pamphlets, Lisa Keränen draws insights from rhetoric, literary studies, sociology, and science studies to analyze the roles of character in shaping the outcomes of the “Datagate” controversy.
Public Modalities
Edited by Daniel C. Brouwer and Robert Asen
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates a modalities approach to the study of publics
Making Camp
Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture
University of Alabama Press
The rhetorical power of camp in American popular culture
Toxic Tourism
Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice
University of Alabama Press
The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste
Framing Public Memory
Edited by Kendall R. Phillips
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories
The Prettier Doll
Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy
University of Alabama Press
Essays in the The Prettier Doll focus on the same local controversy: in 2001,a third-grade girl in Colorado submitted an experiment to the school science fair. She asked 30 adults and 30 fifth-graders which of two Barbie dolls was prettier.
Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory
University of Alabama Press
A clear summary of contemporary rhetorical philosophy and its intersections with hermeneutics and critical theory
Democracy and America's War on Terror
University of Alabama Press
Democracy and America's War on Terror brings the rhetorical dimension of democracy to bear on American culture in the divisive age of terrorism.
It will be of interest to public policymakers and informed general readers as well as students and scholars in the fields of rhetoric, political theory/philosophy, democratic theory, U.S. foreign relations/policy, war and peace studies, terrorism, and cultural studies.
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse
Edited by Carolyn Calloway-Thomas and John Louis Lucaites
University of Alabama Press