This volume examines the role of rhetoric in today's culture of
democratic activism. The volume takes on two of the most
significant challenges currently facing contemporary rhetorical
studies: (1) the contested meanings and practices of democracy and
civic engagement in global context, and (2) the central role of
rhetoric in democratic activist practices. In presenting a variety
of political and rhetorical struggles in their specific contexts,
editors Seth Kahn and JongHwa Lee allow contributors to reflect on
and elaborate possibilities for both activist approaches to
rhetorical studies, and rhetorical approaches to activist projects,
facilitating better understanding the socio-political consequences
of this work.
With contributors from widely known scholars in communication
and composition studies, the collection offers practical cases that
highlight how rhetoric mediates, constitutes, and/or intervenes in
democratic principles and practices. It also considers theoretical
questions that acknowledge profound voids in the rhetorical
tradition (e.g., Western, neo-Aristotelian, liberal) and expand the
horizon of traditional rhetorical perspectives. It advocates new
knowledge and practices that further promote civic engagement,
social change and democracy in the global context.
Activism and Rhetoric will be appropriate for scholars and
students across disciplines, including rhetoric, composition,
communication studies, political science, cultural studies, and
women's studies.
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