Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. How to Belong : : Women’s Agency in a Transnational World / / Belinda A. Stillion Southard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Stillion Southard, Belinda A.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.) :; 6 illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Rhetorics of Belonging in a Transnational World --; 1 Belonging as Denizenship: Peace Women and Regional Dwelling --; 2 Belonging as Cosmopolitanism: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s New Nationalism --; 3 Belonging as Connectivity: Michelle Bachelet’s Transnational Governance --; Conclusion: How to Belong (or Not) to the Nation-State --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780271082936; 9783110745221
• DOI: 10.1515/9780271082936
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Belinda A. Stillion Southard.

In How to Belong, Belinda Stillion Southard examines how women leaders throughout the world have asserted their rhetorical agency in troubling economic, social, and political conditions. Rather than utilizing the concept of citizenship to bolster political influence, the women in the case studies presented here rely on the power of relationships to create a more habitable world.With the rise of global capitalism, many nation-states that have profited from invigorated flows of capital have also responded to the threat of increased human mobility by heightening national citizenship’s exclusionary power. Through a series of case studies that include women grassroots protesters, a woman president, and a woman United Nations director, Stillion Southard analyzes several examples of women, all as embodied subjects in a particular transnational context, pushing back against this often violent rise in nationalist rhetoric. While scholars have typically used the concept of citizenship to explain what it means to belong, Stillion Southard instead shows how these women have reimagined belonging in ways that have enabled them to create national, regional, and global communities.As part of a broader conversation centered on exposing the violence of national citizenship and proposing ways of rejecting that violence, this book seeks to provide answers through the powerful rhetorical practices of resilient and inspiring women who have successfully negotiated what it means to belong, to be included, and to enact change beyond the boundaries of citizenship.