Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2095420
J. Enoch
ABSTRACT This essay explores the controversy surrounding the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument (WRPM) that was unveiled in Central Park on 26 August 2020 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment. To read the WRPM’s commemorative process and product, I use an intersectional feminist analytic to consider how interlocking concerns of gender, race, and power inflected the debates and decisions that shaped the WRPM. This intersectional analysis explores how the WRPM became an opportunity for the public to wrestle with the ways this statue could (not) address a complicated suffrage history that would celebrate women’s collective activism and reckon with its racist past.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2129751
Matthew W. Bost, Joshua S. Hanan
ABSTRACT This essay develops a rhetorical theory of the commons that accounts for both its ontological and political dimensions and contributes to conversations between new materialist rhetorical scholarship and critical rhetorical theories of human power relations. We develop such a theory by considering how the dimension of ontological entanglement that Ralph Cintron describes as the “deep commons” materializes through systemic organizations of affect that foster some relational capacities at the expense of others. This framing allows us to study capitalism and commoning as affective-rhetorical systems that capacitate the deep commons through distinct practices of boundary-making. Whereas capitalism produces boundaries that treat the deep commons as a source of tendentially limitless growth and enact a split between nonhuman nature and human society, commoning practices draw boundaries aimed at plural and interdependent relation between commons systems and their constitutive outsides, enabling more robust expressions of the deep commons to emerge.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2129757
Nicholas S. Paliewicz
ABSTRACT This essay uses Aldo Leopold’s essay “Thinking Like a Mountain” as a heuristic for analyzing the rhetorical processes of erasure that have created one of the largest open pit copper mines on the planet: The Bingham Canyon Mine (BCM). Contributing to studies of corporate rhetoric, persona criticism, and nonhuman agencies, I argue that the BCM, and its corporate owner Rio Tinto, is characteristic of Being-in-the-Anthropocene and informs rhetoricians about our extra-human ethos, or manner of dwelling, as an entwinement with corporate actors. Taking Rio Tinto as a synecdoche for corporate personhood and persona (prosōpon), I make the case for an ecological approach to corporate disclosedness that accounts for the earthly resources of corporate rhetorical invention (e.g., copper). Through the later work of Martin Heidegger, I show how the BCM has become a standing reserve within a corporate world picture that is rhetorically apparent in the rhetorical architecture of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2185010
Sarah Riddick
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2129764
Christopher Earle
ABSTRACT To warrant the weakening of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has actively manufactured ignorance of racism in the realm of voting. Through an analysis of majority opinions in Shelby County v. Holder (2013), Abbott v. Perez (2018), and cases concerning states’ antivoting fraud restrictions, I demonstrate how considerable evidence of racial discrimination is deemed to fail the standard of proof imposed by the court. I offer the term postracial presumption to account for how dominant publics are empowered to reason as if the United States was beyond race, to employ postracial premises to warrant judgments for which there is insufficient evidence and, indeed, for which there is considerable disconfirming evidence. The essay demonstrates how presumption and proof burdens can be critical tools in the study of postracism and is suggestive of how racial ignorance cannot simply be rectified by more proof.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2185016
Raven Maragh-Lloyd
Strange’: When Presidents Apologize for Genocide” because, in so many cases, the apology appears to be merely an image management ploy rather than an authentic gesture of remorse. Thoughtful skepticism and cautions like the above wind through The Rhetoric of Official Apologies, working through varying perspectives and approaches, and serving as tributaries for future theorizations of what official responses to moral wrongs can possibly be authentic, sufficient, and mindful of past and present. I’m hopeful that forthcoming rhetorical criticism of public and official apologies will take particular note of the preceding rhetoric that tips the scales of kairos and exigence to compel an official statement. Accusations, calls for apology, and other advocacy by victims and witnesses create a unique lens through which to observe and assess official apologies. Likewise, both official and unofficial responses by the recipient(s) ought to be considered in conjunction with official apology. These reactions inform future rhetorical action and criticism as they contribute to the public record and shine a light on the impact of apology rather than the speaker’s ostensible intent. Taken together, these essays and the bookending commentaries by both editors invite the reader to consider historical events and their more recent apologies as heuristics for careful and critical reflection of how citizens can work toward more just, humane, and inclusive futures in their corporations, communities, and nations. Editors Villadsen and Edwards take an optimistic approach: “Official apologies have the potential to serve as lessons on proper civic interaction and reflections on the values that undergird a community and how they are honored, and not” (223–24). Thoughtful inquiry into apologies and other rhetorical responses to wrongdoing can spur public discourse about national identities, intersubjectivities, vulnerability, accountability, self-determination, and more as we grapple with both historical and present-day wrongs perpetrated by those and to those who might be a lot like us.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2185015
Autumn R. Boyer
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2095421
J. Paudel
ABSTRACT The Bhagavad Gita—an acclaimed and venerated ancient sacred religious and philosophical text integral to the Hindu faith—shows several rhetorical strategies. To figure out these strategies, in this essay I analyze the Gita using the Nyayasutras method—a systematic guide to rhetorical analysis of Hindu philosophy. Rhetorical scrutiny is applied to the dialog between two main characters of this sacred text: Bhagavan Krishna and Arjuna. I first introduce the Gita and its significance for rhetorical scholarship. In what follows, I present briefly the Nyayasutra method and discuss three types of rhetorical strategies found in the text: Astikya/bhava (ontological) strategy, jnapaka (revelatory) strategy, and tattva/nyaya (axiological) strategy. I also discuss very briefly some counter-arguments that are offered in the rhetoric of the Gita. My rhetorical analysis contributes to the rich ongoing academic discussion of Hindu rhetorical traditions and deepens existing English-medium scholarly discussion about rhetorical strategies employed in the text.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2185012
Isaac West
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2129756
W. Ordeman
ABSTRACT The Spanish flu’s efficacy of spreading across El Paso was in part due to neoliberal governments and racially prejudiced free-market economies exploiting a natural ecosystem to marginalize a Latinx community. This study identifies the tragic consequences these actions brought about for an entire city of both marginalized and privileged. This work argues for a new paradigm of rhetorical agency that accounts for interactions between rhetorical ecologies happening over time. This work demonstrates this paradigm through government policies, newspaper articles, press releases, and ecological surveys of El Paso, Texas, beginning with the early nineteenth century through the first years of the Spanish flu (1918–20). Through the lens of rhetorical methods concerning agency distribution and radical interactionality, we see how one neighborhood played a vital role in the epidemic’s spread throughout the city.
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