Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric

The Texture of Political Action
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-823-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture

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 dimensions of political experience. The attention to catastrophe allows for an understanding of how ordinary people contend with normal system operation once it is indistinguishable from system breakdown. Through an array of case studies, the book provides an account of change as it is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society’s capacity for political action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hariman, Robert

Cintron, Ralph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Robert Hariman

Chapter 1. The Communal Dilemma as a Cultural Resource in Hungarian Political Expression

David Boromisza-Habashi

Chapter 2. Chronotopes of the Political: Public Discourse, News Media, and Mass Action in Post-Conflict Macedonia

Andrew Graan

Chapter 3. The In-Between States: Enduring Catastrophes as Sources of Democracy’s Deadlocks in the Balkans: The Case of Kosovo

Naser Miftari

Chapter 4. Occupy Wall Street as Rhetorical Citizenship: The Ongoing Relevance of Pragmatism for Deliberative Democracy

Robert Danisch

Chapter 5. Contemporary Social Movements and the Emergent Nomadic Political Logic

Peter N. Funke and Todd Wolfson

Chapter 6. “Project Heat” and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing

Catherine Fennell

Chapter 7. Reading between the Digital Lines: Narrating the Political Rhetoric of Ethical Consumption

Eleftheria J. Lekakis

Chapter 8. The Uncertainty of Power and the Certainty of Irony: Encountering the State in Kara, Southern Ethiopia

Felix Girke

Chapter 9. Grassroots Discourses in Times of Scarcity: Debating the 2004 Locust Plague in Northwestern Senegal and the World

Christian Meyer

Chapter 10. Too Too Much Much: Presence and Catastrophe in Contemporary Art

Monica Westin

Conclusion: What Next? Modernity, Revolution, and the “Turn” to Catastrophe

Ralph Cintron

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cintron, Ralph
Ralph Cintron is Professor in the Departments of English as well as Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Angels’ Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday; Democracy as Fetish; and co-editor/PI of 60 Years of Migration: Puerto Ricans in Chicagoland.

Hariman, Robert
Robert Hariman is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Political Style: The Artistry of Power and, with John Louis Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy, and The Public Image: Photography: Photography and Civic Spectatorship.

Robert Hariman is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Political Style: The Artistry of Power and, with John Louis Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy, and The Public Image: Photography: Photography and Civic Spectatorship.