Precarious rhetorics / edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Adela C. Licona, Christa Teston.
| Other author | Hesford, Wendy S. |
| Other author | Licona, Adela C. |
| Other author | Teston, Christa. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018] |
| Description | vii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | New directions in rhetoric and materiality New directions in rhetoric and materiality. ^A1379150 |
| Contents | Precaritization in the security state: ambient akairos in Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantanámo diary / Alexandra S. Moore and Belinda Walzer -- Precarious narratives: media accounts of Islamic state sexual violence / Wendy S. Hesford and Amy Shuman -- Necropolitics as foreign affairs rhetoric in contemporary U.S.-Mexico relations / Sara L. McKinnon -- Embodying "I can't breathe": tensions and possibilities between appropriation and coalition / Kimberlee Pérez -- Reciprocal flowers: precarious rhetorics of solidarity on a New Year's eve in Cologne / Gale P. Coskan-Johnson -- Reversals of precarity: rewriting Buffalo's refugees as neoliberal subjects / Arabella Lyon -- "Where am I? do you have WiFi?": vital technologies and precarious living in the Syrian refugee crisis / Lavinia Hirsu -- The non/image of the regime of distortion / Adela C. Licona -- The precarity of disability/studies in academe / Margaret Price -- "Are you Black, though?": Black autoethnography and racing the graduate student/instructor / Louis M. Maraj -- Precarious cooperation: soft skills and the governing of labor power / Ronald Walter Greene and Kristin Swenson -- Complicit interfaces / Becca Tarsa and James J. Brown Jr. -- Pathologizing precarity / Christa Teston. |
| Abstract | "Combines materialist and rhetorical frameworks with interdisciplinary understandings of precarity to study state terror and political resistance, migration and displacement, the global refugee crisis, Guantanamo Bay, the Islamic State, police brutality, disability in organizations and institutions, sexual assault, and contentious digital practices such as doxing and swatting"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018012919 |
| ISBN | 9780814213766 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0814213766 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (electronic bk.) |