Pub Date : 2021-03-19DOI: 10.14321/RHETPUBLAFFA.23.4.0707
Misti Yang
Abstract:This essay examines the image-schemas and metaphors that leaders and critics employ in international debates about the internet. As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton delivered the first speech by a senior American official articulating a strategy for incorporating internet freedom into American foreign policy in 2010, but international leaders have been concerned with the implications of the internet since its inception. Situating Clinton’s speech in the history of internet governance, I employ security image–schemas first developed by Paul Chilton to demonstrate how policymakers employ the internet to reinforce realist foreign policy narratives. To support alternative conceptions of the internet, I propose a “space” image-schema drawing from the work of critical geographer Doreen Massey. While the internet is often depicted as a force for freedom, a more productive framework may be understanding its relationship with space.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-19DOI: 10.1080/13552609408413251
Mary E. Stuckey
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Pub Date : 2021-03-19DOI: 10.14321/RHETPUBLAFFA.23.4.0735
Noor Ghazal Aswad, Antonio de Velasco
Abstract:This essay identifies and explicates a key rhetorical form—“redemptive exclusion”—underlying former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley’s efforts to defend barring Syrian refugees from American soil. Through a reliance on ethotic prolepsis, the rhetorical form of redemptive exclusion enables the creation of a transcendent perspective that reconciles seemingly opposite contemporary cultural and political rhetorics: xenophobic discourses of exclusion become coarticulated with the mythic promise of an America open to all. We show how Haley’s rhetoric combines antithetical gestures of inclusion and exclusion by interweaving synecdochic narratives of her own immigrant history; hyperbolic narratives of American benevolence toward immigrants; and stereotypical narratives of terrorist identity that preempt the acceptance of Syrian refugees as even potentially American. We argue that Haley converts the rejection of Syrian refugees from American soil into an opportunity for constraining and qualifying the mythic ideal of the United States as an historical beacon for immigrants around the globe. In the conclusion, we suggest that a close study of how redemptive exclusion takes life in Haley’s discourse offers more general lessons about the rhetorical and ideological character of controversies over U.S. immigration policy.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-19DOI: 10.14321/RHETPUBLAFFA.23.4.0675
Michael J. Reimer
Abstract:As honorary president and first speaker at the First Zionist Congress, Dr. Karpel Lippe of Romania embodied continuities in the history of the Jews and of Zionism, but his address also heralded transformations occurring in the movement as its delegates assembled in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897. The speech, given in German, is analyzed with respect to its multiplex audience and other aspects of the rhetorical situation. Lippe declares the Congress to be a gewaltiger Sprung (mighty leap): the “leap” refers to the reinvention of Zionism as a solidly modern, middle-class movement, as shown by its leadership, language, repertoires of action, and values. Those values—positivism with respect to social and historical knowledge; individual self-reliance, secular work, and “civilization”; deprecation of indolence and dependency; and a respectful but assertive engagement with the established political-economic order—are set over against the social and ideological equivocations, administrative paternalism, and political timidity that caused its predecessor, Hibbat Zion, to falter.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1215/9780822385387-008
Juliet A. Williams
{"title":"Privacy in the (Too Much) Information Age","authors":"Juliet A. Williams","doi":"10.1215/9780822385387-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822385387-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45013,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric & Public Affairs","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84603017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780822385387-006
{"title":"On ‘‘The Dalliances of the Commander in Chief’’: Christian Right Scandal Narratives in Post-Fordist America","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780822385387-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385387-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45013,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric & Public Affairs","volume":"174 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76905163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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