Rhetorical democracy : discursive practices of civic engagement : selected papers from the 2002 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America

This collection presents theoretical, critical, applied, and pedagogical questions and cases of publics and public spheres, examining these contexts as sources and sites of civic engagement. Reflecting the current state of rhetorical theory and research, the contributions arise from the 2002 conference proceedings of the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA). The collected essays bring together rhetoricians of different intellectual stripes in a multi-traditional conversation about rhetoric's place in a democracy. In addition to the wide variety of topics presented at the RSA conference, the volume also includes the papers from the President's Panel, which addressed the rhetoric surrounding September 11, 2001, and its aftermath. Other topics include the rhetorics of cyberpolitical culture, race, citizenship, globalization, the environment, new media, public memory, and more. This volume makes a singular contribution toward improving the understanding of rhetoric's role in civic engagement and public discourse, and will serve scholars and students in rhetoric, political studies, and cultural studies. Table of Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 12 1 Rhetorical Democracy and Civic Engagement......Page 14 I: Plenary Papers......Page 28 2 Citizen Voices in Cyberpolitical Culture......Page 30 3 Identification and Resistance: Women's Civic Discourse Across the Color Line......Page 46 4 Plato's Shibboleth Delineations; or, the Complete Idiot's Guide to Rhetoric......Page 58 5 The Temple Issues Forum: Innovations in Pedagogy for Civic Engagement......Page 66 II: President's Panel: The Rhetoric of 9/11 and Its Aftermath......Page 82 Introduction to the President's Panel......Page 84 6 Terrorist Rhetorics, Rhetorics of Democracies, and Worlds of Meaning......Page 86 7 The Triumph of Consolatory Ritual Over Deliberation Since 9/11......Page 88 8 Citizen Rhetorics After 9/11: Back to Bidness as Usual......Page 94 9 The Rehabilitation of Propaganda: Post-9/11 Media Coverage in the United States......Page 98 10 Remarks for 9/11 Panel......Page 104 11 Public Culture and Public Stupidity Post-9/11......Page 108 12 Love and Theft After 9/11: Magnification in the Rhetorical Aftermath......Page 112 III: Selected Papers......Page 118 13 Populist Poetry or Rantum-Scantum? The Civil Disobedients of Poetry Slams......Page 120 14 Alternative Articulations of Citizenship: The Written Discourse of a Nineteenth-Century African American Woman......Page 128 15 The Rhetorical Display of "Publicness" in Global Institutions......Page 136 16 Civil Disobedience and the Ethical Appeal of Self-Representation......Page 144 17 The Coalition Rhetoric of Rose Schneiderman......Page 150 18 Identity Across Blood Meridians......Page 158 19 Defending the Public: Procedural Rationality and the Limits of Actually Existing Jurisprudence......Page 164 20 Between Sympathy and Self-Interest: A Reframing of Adam Smith's Economic Rhetoric......Page 172 21 The Concept of Global Citizenship in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire: A Challenge to Three Ideas of Rhetorical Mediation......Page 178 22 Rhetoric of Globalization: A Social Movement Defines Its Collective Identity in America......Page 186 23 Strategies of Objection in the Trial of the Chicago Eight......Page 192 24 Figuration of Moral Reform in the Rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld......Page 200 25 The Alphabet as Ethics: A Rhetorical Basis for Moral Reality in Hebrew Letters......Page 208 26 Dewey, Discussion, and Democracy in Speech Pedagogy......Page 218 27 Homepages, Blogs, and the Chronotopic Dimensions of Personal Civic (Dis-)Engagement......Page 226 28 Civic Education and Republican Judgment: The Stem Cell Research Discourse of George W. Bush......Page 234 29 Panoramic Memories: Realism, Agency, and the Remembrance of Japanese American Internment......Page 242 30 Rhetorics of Subversion and Silence: The Naming of Illinois State University's Student Union......Page 250 31 Tyrannical Technology and Thin Democracy......Page 256 32 How Medium Clarifies Message in Emerson's "Divinity School Address"......Page 262 33 Desire and Performance at the Classroom Door: Discursive Laminations of Academic and Civic Engagement......Page 268 34 Sisyphus at Starbucks: Complicity Through Resistance in the Satire of Liberties......Page 274 35 Learning to Be Civil: Citizen Judith and Old English Culture......Page 282 36 Memory, Narrative, and Myth in the Construction of National Identity: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Senate Debate Over Reparations for Japanese Americans......Page 290 37 Oral Mind in Civic Engagement: Common Sense and Rhetorical Action......Page 298 38 Fanaticism, Civil Society, and the Arts of Representation in Sixteenth-Century Mexico......Page 306 39 Service-Learning and Cultural Studies: Toward a Hybrid Pedagogy of Rhetorical Intervention......Page 314 D......Page 322 K......Page 323 S......Page 324 W......Page 325 C......Page 326 D......Page 327 F......Page 328 J......Page 329 N......Page 330 P......Page 331 S......Page 332 V......Page 333 X......Page 334

Hauser and Grim (both U. of Colorado) present a selection of papers from a May 2002 conference held in Las Vegas and attended by 400-plus scholars from eight nations, examining what it means to practice democracy in the 21st century. Thirty-nine contributions are organized into sections of plenary papers, the rhetoric of 9/11 and its aftermath, and selected papers. A sampling of topics: rhetorical democracy and civic engagement, citizen voices in cyberpolitical culture, the triumph of consolatory ritual over deliberation since 9/11, the civil disobedients of poetry slams, the rhetorical display of publicness in global institutions, and tyrannical technology and thin democracy. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR