Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric : : The Texture of Political Action / / ed. by Robert Hariman, Ralph Cintron.
This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of events and analyzes the performative d...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Communal Dilemma as a Cultural Resource in Hungarian Political Expression
- 2. Chronotopes of the Political: Public Discourse, News Media, and Mass Action in Postconflict Macedonia
- 3. The In-Between States: Enduring Catastrophes as Sources of Democracy’s Deadlocks in Kosovo
- 4. Occupy Wall Street as Rhetorical Citizenship: The Ongoing Relevance of Pragmatism for Deliberative Democracy
- 5. Contemporary Social Movements and the Emergent Nomadic Political Logic
- 6. “Project Heat” and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing
- 7. Reading between the Digital Lines: The Political Rhetoric of Ethical Consumption
- 8. The Uncertainty of Power and the Certainty of Irony: Encountering the State in Kara, Southern Ethiopia
- 9. Grassroots Rhetorics in Times of Scarcity: Debating the 2004 Locust Plague in Northwestern Senegal and the World
- 10. Too Too Much Much: Presence and Catastrophe in Contemporary Art
- Conclusion: What Next? Modernity, Revolution, and the “Turn” to Catastrophe
- Index