Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2150829
J. Ackerman, Michael Lechuga
ABSTRACT Inspired by “Phantasms in the Halls,” we return to the original call and the violent chaos of the present to extend fugitivity to where it has always been, the university and city, and to consider the settler colonial present. The colonist, the enslaver, the manager, the police have settled into the banalities of work and life such that it may be easy for some to claim innocence when in practice an incommensurable relationality offers the more just, decolonial future. The settler colonial present seen here is urbicidal in the metropole and necroviolent in the desert, leading us to consider whether a settler apparatus might aid in the finding and making of an otherwise future.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2136501
Catherine Chaput
ABSTRACT This essay explores theories of racial capitalism for insights about how to reimagine rhetorical advocacy beyond both Marxist formations and new materialist interventions. With an anticapitalist commitment informed by Marxism and the politics of affectivity that resonates with new materialism, Black Studies scholarship forwards key aspects of these two traditions without following into political rigidity or flattening political asymmetries. It does so by reconfiguring contingency as the grounds of rhetorical praxis. From its frameworks, timeliness is ever present as the past and future bleed into the present, and consequently rhetorical emplacement has an equally ambiguous relationship to traditional heuristics. This uncertain acontingency opens new possibilities for rhetorical studies.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2136502
B. Stanley
ABSTRACT For Indigenous peoples, being in good relations with land is crucial for our survival, sovereignty, and decolonization. Our relations are our medicine. This essay suggests that through Indigenous eroticisms, we can better maintain our relations with the complex, life-giving and sustaining ecological and cosmological worlds and our accountability to these worlds, such as the lives and humanity of other-humans and more-than-human beings. In doing so, I tell two place-based Mvskoke stories that story erotic engagements between humans and other-humans. These stories illustrate the fluidity of Indigenous imaginations and remind us of how we should be relating to and living with land, which also informs how we might relate differently to other people. Indigenous eroticisms, I argue, function as a political site for decolonization and the reclamation of our bodies, lands, and sovereignties. Indigenous eroticisms imagine otherwise to colonial empire that depends upon the conversion of land into property and colonial binarism such as human/nonhuman and nature/culture, and therefore offer important medicine for sustaining our bodies and spirits as we create and materialize decolonizing worlds and futurities.
{"title":"Pubic scarves and earthworm sex: storying Indigenous eroticisms for sovereign relations and futures","authors":"B. Stanley","doi":"10.1080/15358593.2022.2136502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2022.2136502","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For Indigenous peoples, being in good relations with land is crucial for our survival, sovereignty, and decolonization. Our relations are our medicine. This essay suggests that through Indigenous eroticisms, we can better maintain our relations with the complex, life-giving and sustaining ecological and cosmological worlds and our accountability to these worlds, such as the lives and humanity of other-humans and more-than-human beings. In doing so, I tell two place-based Mvskoke stories that story erotic engagements between humans and other-humans. These stories illustrate the fluidity of Indigenous imaginations and remind us of how we should be relating to and living with land, which also informs how we might relate differently to other people. Indigenous eroticisms, I argue, function as a political site for decolonization and the reclamation of our bodies, lands, and sovereignties. Indigenous eroticisms imagine otherwise to colonial empire that depends upon the conversion of land into property and colonial binarism such as human/nonhuman and nature/culture, and therefore offer important medicine for sustaining our bodies and spirits as we create and materialize decolonizing worlds and futurities.","PeriodicalId":53587,"journal":{"name":"Review of Communication","volume":"22 1","pages":"351 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43786794","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 : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2144753
Nathan R. Johnson, Meredith A. Johnson
ABSTRACT This article narrates a mobility history spanning from 16th-century colonization to present-day policing practices to better understand acts of dissettlement. We identify major technological developments enabling new forms of mobility along with their material-semiotic figures that concomitantly shift race relations. Our approach extends inquiry into how rhetoric is performed through technological, material, and figurative acts of mobility and immobility. By focusing on how dissettlement is dominated by shifting race-based power relationships, we forward rhetoric’s commitment to sustain critical attention on race, not as an afterthought but as central to the work of all criticism. This history of mobility also contributes to theorizing dissettlement as a key concept for rhetorical studies. We identify four mobility tropes as acts of dissettlement, each drawn from extant scholarship on rhetoric and mobility: dis/ease, per/meability, b/ordering, and il/legality.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2144754
Eda Özyeşilpınar
ABSTRACT This essay forms a relational connection between two artivist projects of transnational border intervention—the Aylan project, and the Border Tuner project. These projects created spatio-temporal disruptions and ruptures in the normative discourses about borders and im/migration by harnessing the rhetorical power of victim images. These artivist interventions offer ways to make visible the humanity of the migrant–refugee figure. They offer a potential response to the recent abolitionist telos conceptualized in rhetoric border(ing) studies.
{"title":"Rhetorical spaces of transnational bordering, border artivism, and resistance","authors":"Eda Özyeşilpınar","doi":"10.1080/15358593.2022.2144754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2022.2144754","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay forms a relational connection between two artivist projects of transnational border intervention—the Aylan project, and the Border Tuner project. These projects created spatio-temporal disruptions and ruptures in the normative discourses about borders and im/migration by harnessing the rhetorical power of victim images. These artivist interventions offer ways to make visible the humanity of the migrant–refugee figure. They offer a potential response to the recent abolitionist telos conceptualized in rhetoric border(ing) studies.","PeriodicalId":53587,"journal":{"name":"Review of Communication","volume":"22 1","pages":"309 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49362633","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2101897
Alice Mattoni, Ester Sigillò
ABSTRACT Drawing on the case of the Hirak movement born in Algeria in 2019, this article casts light on the mechanisms of transformation of the anti-regime movement when it comes to the transnational dimension. Based on a qualitative case-study research design, the article first unpacks the transformative dynamics of the movement when it bypasses the context of origins regarding the framing, organizational, and protesting dimensions. Then, the article looks at the effects of such changes against a background characterized by high political conflict and harsh repression. Findings show that digital media supporting transnational activism have three main effects that are deeply intertwined: they mix up the sociopolitical cleavages of the country of origin by facilitating the hybridization of actors’ registers and repertoires of action at a global level; they contribute to politicizing specific issues by escalating the levels of contention; and they allow new measures of a regime’s transnational repression.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2107877
Giuliana Sorce, D. Dumitrica
ABSTRACT This themed issue provides an international perspective on transnational processes in digital activism and protest. Against wider claims that social movements and citizen activism are shifting from the logic of spatial organization to networked flows, this themed issue foregrounds the interplay between the global and local in networked public spheres. Recent transnational movements such as #MeToo or Black Lives Matter yield the importance of interweaving digital communication, pre-existing activist collectives, and citizen activation on a seemingly global scale. In this Introduction, we ask how political causes circulate globally, what role digital technologies play, and ultimately, what “transnational” means for seemingly universal causes, global collective identity, and activist practice. After providing an overview of the different theoretical insights that an interdisciplinary approach to digital activism can provide, we outline a conceptual framework for approaching the transnational as an entanglement of flows, hierarchies, and agencies.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2107876
A. Rahman, M Zahid Hasan
ABSTRACT This essay analyzes a locally networked resistance movement against the Phulbari Coal Project, an immense open-pit coal mine excavation project initiated by the multinational corporation Asia Energy (U.K.) in Bangladesh. The project was violently brought upon the rural and Indigenous peoples in 2006 but met with a formidable resistance that forced the company to halt the project and leave the country. The success of the protest was amplified by shows of solidarity from international environmental justice movements. We argue that the mobilization of movements and protests like this signify a global arcade of networked activism against transnational and geomorphic extractivism. Drawing from interviews and qualitative digital media content analysis, we identify common themes, similarities with global appeals and vocabularies, and the communicative architecture of the movements, including their digital turn. We pay attention to how local voices were picked up by national and transnational alliances. Although deeply situated in local cultures, the Phulbari movement shows that antiextractivism has become a digitally networked and globally circulated cause.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2106793
Cheryl S. Y. Shea, Yanru Jiang, Wendy L. Y. Leung
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the digital transnational advocacy network of the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement on Twitter. We present how grassroots users strategically utilize social media for achieving diplomatic engagement with foreign actors. The Twitter network analysis and natural language processing of tweets (N = 88,800) identify the key opinion leaders and their three core grassroots frames: universal values, humanitarian concerns, and geopolitics. We find that the low threshold of Twitter participation provides additional direct channels for ordinary users to engage with foreign politicians and create their own public opinion wave. The Anti-ELAB digital transnational grassroots advocacy network was found to have more high-profile actors, such as corporations and celebrities, due to pressure from grassroots users to stand with them. Though the two traditional frames, universal values and humanitarian concerns, adopted from the organizational-centered outreach remain prevalent, grassroots users extend geopolitical frames to incorporate their cultural capital and economic power.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2096414
Kristin Comeforo, Berna Görgülü
ABSTRACT In summer 2020, social media feeds were flooded with black-and-white selfies of women, shared under the hashtag #ChallengeAccepted. While the images quickly became ubiquitous, the reason for them did not. This case study analyzes #ChallengeAccepted from the perspective of feminists in Turkey, who began posting the hashtag/selfie sequence on July 26, 2020. We performed a thematic analysis on datasets of 5,510 Turkish-language tweets, 28,527 English-language tweets, and transcripts from 26 semistructured interviews with women in Turkey who participated in the hashtag campaign and sought to answer the question: How do transnational digital flows impact local and global uptake of feminist ideals? We found three stages of the hashtag, through which meaning was negotiated, defended, and re-established. Applying W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg’s “logic of connective action,” we saw #ChallengeAccepted as operating as a “personal action frame,” which we argue provided a refractive effect that changed the trajectory of the discourse. Our findings suggest that other cases of hashtag activism would benefit from imagining the local/transnational dimensions as a collection of locals, or the translocal.
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