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Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with
scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the
prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of
qualitative research. Based on ten years of teaching in, writing
about, and protesting at prisons across America, Harnett weaves
together the hopes of prisoners, their families, and friends with
the stories of activist communities struggling against the death
penalty, the war on drugs, and a culture that treats prisoners as
commodities. Full of materials from philosophers, poets, and
historians, rich in personal detail, and written as a passionate
and urgent call for justice, Incarceration Nation shows the power
of ethnographic poetry to give voice to the hopes and horrors of a
generation confronted by the mass-production of criminality.
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The Rhetoric of Fascism (Hardcover)
Nathan Crick; Patrick D. Anderson, Rya Butterfield, Nathan Crick, Elizabeth R. Earle, …
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Highlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appeals
Fascism has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our
time. The rise of extremist parties and candidates in Europe, the
United States, and around the globe has led even mainstream
political commentators to begin using the term “fascism” to
describe dangerous movements that have revived and repackaged many
of the strategies long thought to have been relegated to the
margins of political rhetoric. No longer just confined to the state
regimes of the past, fascism thrives today as a globally
self-augmenting, self-propagating rhetorical phenomenon with a
variety of faces and expressions. The Rhetoric of Fascism defines
and interprets the common persuasive devices that characterize
fascist discourse to understand the nature of its enduring appeal.
By approaching fascism from a rhetorical perspective, this volume
complements established political and sociological understandings
of fascism as a movement or regime. A rhetorical approach studies
fascism less as a party one joins than as a set of persuasive
strategies one adopts. Fascism spreads precisely because it is not
a coherent entity. Instead, it exists as a loosely bound and often
contradictory collection of persuasive trajectories that have
attained enough coherence to mobilize and channel the passions of a
self-constituted mass of individuals. Introductory chapters focus
on general theories of fascism drawn from twentieth-century history
and theory. Contributors investigate specific historical figures
and their relationship to contemporary rhetorics, focusing on a
specific rhetorical device that is characteristic of fascist
rhetoric. A common thread throughout every chapter is that fascist
devices are appealing because they speak to us in the familiar
language of our culture. As we are seduced by one device at a time,
we soon find ourselves part of a movement, a group, or a campaign
that makes us act in ways we might never have imagined. This volume
reveals that fascism may be closer to home than we think.
CONTRIBUTORS Patrick D. Anderson / Rya Butterfield / Nathan Crick /
Elizabeth R. Earle / Zac Gershberg / Stephen J. Hartnett /
Marie-Odile N. Hobeika / Sean Illing / Jacob A. Miller / Fernando
Ismael QuiÑones Valdivia / Patricia Roberts-Miller / Raquel M.
Robvais / Bradley A. Serber / Ryan Skinnell
This collection documents the efforts of the Prison Communication,
Activism, Research, and Education collective (PCARE) to put
democracy into practice by merging prison education and activism.
Through life-changing programs in a dozen states (Arizona,
Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin), PCARE works
with prisoners, in prisons, and in communities to reclaim justice
from the prison-industrial complex. Based on years of pragmatic
activism and engaged teaching, the materials in this volume present
a sweeping inventory of how communities and individuals both within
and outside of prisons are marshaling the arts, education, and
activism to reduce crime and enhance citizenship. Documenting
hands-on case studies that emphasize educational initiatives,
successful prison-based programs, and activist-oriented analysis,
Working for Justice provides readers with real-world answers based
on years of pragmatic activism and engaged teaching. Contributors
are David Coogan, Craig Lee Engstrom, Jeralyn Faris, Stephen John
Hartnett, Edward A. Hinck, Shelly Schaefer Hinck, Bryan J. McCann,
Nikki H. Nichols, Eleanor Novek, Brittany L. Peterson, Jonathan
Shailor, Rachel A. Smith, Derrick L. Williams, Lesley A. Withers,
Jennifer K. Wood, and Bill Yousman.
Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the
prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer
an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners
instead of incarcerating them. Experts and activists who have
worked within and against the prison system join forces here to
call attention to the debilitating effects of a punishment-driven
society and offer clear-eyed alternatives that emphasize working
directly with prisoners and their communities. Edited by Stephen
John Hartnett, the volume offers rhetorical and political analyses
of police culture, the so-called drug war, media coverage of crime
stories, and the public-school-to-prison pipeline. The collection
also includes case studies of successful prison arts and education
programs in Michigan, California, Missouri, Wisconsin, and
Pennsylvania that provide creative and intellectual resources
typically denied to citizens living behind bars. Writings and
artwork created by prisoners in such programs richly enhance the
volume. Contributors are Buzz Alexander, Rose Braz, Travis L.
Dixon, Garrett Albert Duncan, Stephen John Hartnett, Julilly
Kohler-Hausmann, Daniel Mark Larson, Erica R. Meiners, Janie Paul,
Lori Pompa, Jonathan Shailor, Robin Sohnen, and Myesha Williams.
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