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Culture, catastrophe, and rhetoric : the texture of political action /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hariman, Robert (Editor ), Cintron, Ralph (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Colección:Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The communal dilemma as a cultural resource in Hungarian political expression / David Boromisza-Habashi
  • Chronotypes of the political : public discourse, news media, and mass action in postconflict Macedonia / Andrew Graan
  • The in-between states : enduring catastrophes as sources of democracy's deadlocks in Kosovo / Naser Miftari
  • Occupy Wall Street as rhetorical citizenship : the ongoing relevance of pragmatism for deliberative democracy / Robert Danisch
  • Contemporary social movements and the emergent nomadic political logic / Peter N. Funke and Todd Wolfson
  • "Project heat" and sensory politics in redeveloping Chicago public housing / Catherine Fennell
  • Reading between the digital lines : the political rhetoric of ethical consumption / Eleftheria J. Lekakis
  • The uncertainty of power and the certainty of irony : encountering the state in Kara, Southern Ethiopia / Felix Girke
  • Grassroots rhetorics in times of scarcity : debating the 2004 locus plague in northwestern Senegal and the world / Christian Meyer
  • Too too much much : presence and catastrophe in contemporary art / Monica Westin
  • Conclusion : What next? Modernity, revolution, and the "turn" to catastrophe / Ralph Cintron.