Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2131462
Taylor Katz
To sustain his Southern Baptist congregation’s communal identity despite personally shifting away from their traditional marriage ideology in favor of affirming homosexuality, Reverend Danny Cortez blends elements of his congregation’s existing ideology with modifications that enable the integration of his new ideology. I analyze this sermon using Black’s second persona, arguing that Cortez paves the way for his congregation to accept both members who affirm and members who reject homosexuality as biblical by combining the theme of love amid conflict, the constitutive character of Christ, and an experiential framework for biblical interpretation into a “boundary-crossing Christian” second persona.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2118550
Sunny Lie Owens, Maggie Boyraz, Nell C. Huang-Horowitz
This study explicates discourse surrounding organizational identity negotiation among different stakeholders during organizational change in a polytechnic university. We bridge organizational identity approach and Cultural Discourse Analysis (CuDA) and demonstrate how an organizational identity is negotiated through cultural communicative practices active among student leaders, faculty, administrators, and staff. Five themes emerged from our analysis of 24 interviews with university stakeholders: 1) polytechnic as “STEM”; 2) polytechnic prioritizes certain disciplines over others; 3) polytechnic as “learn-by-doing”; 4) polytechnic as many arts; and 5) polytechnic as symbolic of tension among colleges.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-12DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2131461
Charles Athanasopoulos
This essay theorizes Fanonian slips as way of describing the misfires that may occur in rhetorical gestures aimed at soothing moments of racial tension. Fanonian slips further articulate how those misfires accidentally reveal broader processes by which various individuals mobilize “Black skin” and “white masks” as guiding posts for establishing order within the interpersonal, the political, and the internal. Accordingly, the essay analyzes an eclectic mix of artifacts including the rhetoric of Atlanta rapper Killer Mike, U.S. President Barack Obama, and two auto-ethnographic accounts, to demonstrate that these slips are pervasive within, and endemic to, Western communication.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-12DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2118552
Justine Wells
This essay examines memorial style as a rhetorical “milieu” in which geographies of race and racism are constructed. To do so, I trace W. E. B. Du Bois’s turn-of-the-century encounter with antebellum plantation ruin as an instance of historic and still ongoing Black resistance to monumental stylistics that have long dominated Western memory. Situating Du Bois’s encounter with ruin in this lineage illuminates how monumentality can undergird supremacist modes of inhabiting space and race and opens onto alternative, ecological styles of memorial dwelling enabled and called for by Black experiences of the ruinous wake of slavery.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-08DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2130003
M. Meier, S. V. L. Berg
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Pub Date : 2022-10-05DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2130004
Jessica A. Robinson
Despite the steadily expanding woman player population, women face many barriers to entering the video game industry and player community, including historical design and advertising practices, gendered behavioral expectations, assumed lack of skill or interest, and harassment. Offline progress in understanding gender and gender identity, combined with unique multi-user online battle arenas (MOBAs) features, may create the needed catalyst for challenging these barriers and gender stereotypes. Through 55 interviews, this study identifies gendered stereotypes familiar to League of Legends players, examines implications of those stereotypes for both men and women, and discusses insights offered to challenging stereotypes within the gaming community.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2118549
Denise M. Bostdorff
This essay examines Trump’s 2016 Greensboro rally performance of aggrieved white masculinity to shed light on the Access Hollywood scandal specifically and his appeal for supporters generally. Trump projected a persona of primitive, white, working-class masculinity; feminized the establishment through populist conspiracy; used psychological iconicity and inference to equate Clinton’s assertions with what he depicted as his accusers’ false claims of sexual assault; and dispelled their credibility through reenactment and partition. His sexism, conjoined with anger, also did displaced racist work by depicting his hypermasculine, authoritarian leadership as essential for restoring white men and the nation to their rightful places.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-12DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2118551
Peter R. Jensen
In this paper, I argue that discussions of organizational agency should be first grounded in epistemology. I examine this by comparing the organizing practices of two homeless shelters for women in the same geographic area. While both shelters face many of the same challenges, their differing epistemic frameworks lead to them conceiving of their agency in different ways. For one shelter, a neoliberal epistemic framework leads to the equating of financial resources with agency. At the other anarchist shelter, agency is conceptualized in terms of flexibility and the capacity to respond to individual needs.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-05DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2118548
Valerie Cronin-Fisher, L. Timmerman
Framed by relational dialectics theory, the current investigation sought to understand women’s meaning making processes in publicly shared stories about birth trauma. Contrapuntal analysis was used to identify culturally dominant systems of meaning embedded in women’s talk about traumatic birth. Forty-one stories recounting traumatic births were analyzed within a variety of contexts (e.g., natural birth, cesarean, preemie). The dominant discourse of traumatic birth as incongruent with intensive motherhood informed much of women’s communication about traumatic birth. Discursive interplay was also identified through the struggle between the discourse of traumatic birth as incongruent with intensive motherhood and the discourse of individualism.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-22DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2100472
S. Heidt
Contemporary attention to presidential war power focuses on the possibility of ”perpetual war.” This essay contextualizes that controversy by returning to the nation’s first international crisis - the War of 1812 - to consider the ways James Madison’s rhetoric established precedents that empowered presidents to act with rhetorical impunity in international affairs. Analyzing an overlooked but influential anti-war pamphlet written by John Lowell reveals public concerns about Madison’s War and the dangers presidential rhetoric poses to the constitutional order. In doing so, this essay revises contemporary thinking about the imperial presidency, the rhetorical presidency, and the nature of perpetual war.
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