(Counter)Publics, transnationalism, and globalization: Dan Brouwer’s intellectual legacy and methodological touchpoints

Abstract

the versal, the trans actional, the lational, gressive aspects of behavior. transnational rhetorical ’ s life be as by here ” or there ” ; complicity, interconnectedness, and con fl uence between di ff situated transnational subjects and places are the de fi ning features of a life constituted between the bounds of a singular nation-state. A transnational rhetorical practice examines the fusional or frictional dynamics — and even the forced stuckness — that occurs as global asymmetries of power consolidate and shift. Transnational scholars contextualize their subjects and elds of study against broader colonial, geopolitical-economic, and cultural histories and relationships, and the ways structures such as race, gender, class, and nationality (and their intersections) are constituted and reconstituted across geographies to enforce and challenge relations of domination. a transnational on the way systems of power interconnect, national, s methodology of rigorous contextualization, care with language, and deep re fl exivity showcases the need for counterpublic theory to be interrogated from non-Western, postcolonial, transnational, and indigenous perspectives, and for scholars of publics and counterpublics to begin with deeply contextual and re fl exive engagements from a local perspective, resisting using counterpublic theory as a default tool of description and analysis in all contexts.