Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2063698
A. Wright
ABSTRACT This article examines embodied abolition as the affective practices of liberation that helps one to survive the carceral apocalypse, the ongoing apocalyptic conditions of carcerality that will necessitate an end of the carceral state. By conducting an ethnographic study of Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown's podcast How to Survive the End of the World, I explore how podcast(ing), as a digital space that can extend beyond spatiotemporal boundaries, can be a site that activates social change. I argue that their podcast encourages anticarceral ways of forming community and calls for us to practice freer ways of being, knowing, and learning for the carceral apocalypse. I explore how Autumn and adrienne's podcast utilizes aspects of embodied abolition, such as intimacy and communal practices, to demonstrate the embodied practices necessary for abolition.
摘要本文考察了体现废除作为解放的情感实践，帮助人们在专制的天启中生存下来，持续的专制的天启条件将使专制国家的终结成为必要。通过对Autumn Brown和adrienne maree Brown的播客《如何在世界末日生存》(How to Survive the End of World)进行人种学研究，我探索了播客作为一个超越时空界限的数字空间，如何成为一个激活社会变革的场所。我认为，他们的播客鼓励以反专制的方式组建社区，并呼吁我们以更自由的方式存在、认识和学习专制的启示。我探索了Autumn和adrienne的播客如何利用具体的废除方面，如亲密和公共实践，来展示废除所必需的具体实践。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2066477
H. Tabrizi, Marina Levina
ABSTRACT COVID-19 has crystalized how Western sociopolitical, cultural, and biomedical understandings of health advance the spaciotemporal logic of “the end.” This logic defines health in terms of linear accessibility to cures while ignoring the intersectional mechanisms of systemic inequality. Such logics stress an individual’s ability to mobilize along the timeline of health, ignoring the stoppages shaped by race, class, ability, and gender. This effectively casts public health as a matter of managing individual choice without attending to systems of power. The logic of “the end” works in tandem with the metaphors of “darkness” and “light.” Within the context of COVID-19, these metaphors demarcate health as a universally attainable good defined by Western medicine, whiteness, and normative ability. This temporal logic of the pandemic crystalizes how whiteness and ability shape notions of health in ways that render precariously situated bodies immobile and essentially ill.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2074800
Lore/tta LeMaster
ABSTRACT For those of us for whom end times are marked by our arrivals, rhetorical threats of “the end” serve as discursive grounds out of which material experiences are animated. In our current hellscape, queer and trans folks are marked as cultural monstrosities across public and political discourses. Moved by the essays constituting this themed issue, I proffer a response by turning to the ways rhetorics of “the end” and of “end times” are projected onto queer and trans bodies. After all, to be trans and gender expansive is to be and become the end—the end of white supremacy’s clutch on sex, gender, and bodily comportment. This is an ending we demand in full.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2059392
Bailey Flynn
ABSTRACT Rhetorical Genre Studies has been a productive subfield of communication studies since the 1980s, with the conceptualization of “apocalyptic” as a genre being one influential outcome. Literature on the topic has explored apocalypse as a genre arising to make sense of destabilizing events that fit within no pre-existing symbolic framework. I join this conversation with a slight shift in focus, from the genre itself to the destabilization that occasions it and its potential for rhetorical invention. Picking up on Lauren Berlant’s theorization of the “genre flail,” I argue that the flail can be an ambivalent and productive rhetorical space where reparative and radical rhetorics may gain ground in addition to or beyond apocalyptic and violent alternatives. My case study in end times here is the global climate crisis as depicted in the 2018 film Annihilation. Through rhetorical analysis of the film’s mixed-genre style and ambivalent narrative, I define two possible readings of the film: as diagnostic and as social ecology. These dual readings demonstrate the creativity of genre flail, its potential as a rhetorical zone of innovation, and the importance of interrogating the destructive and reparative genres of practice it produces as potential ways of living-with environmental end times.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2059391
Joseph Packer, Ethan Stoneman
ABSTRACT From 19th-century novels to contemporary computer-animated adventure films, popular media culture provides no shortage of representations that subserve colonialist attitudes and perspectives. Thor: Ragnarok (2017) provides a rare decolonial fantasy, which is especially surprising given that it does so through the veneer of the big-budget superhero film. Registering a deep concern with public memory, the film spotlights and challenges the various uses of public memory in the maintenance of colonial legitimation. In doing so, Thor: Ragnarok offers an incisive and uncompromising indictment of colonization and colonialism, one that ends not with a call for reform but with the end of the world.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.2025413
E. Mutua, Bala A. Musa, C. Okigbo
ABSTRACT The study of communication in Africa, much like the continent, has been the subject of controversy and consternation, with widely changing fortunes that wax and wane at different times. Africa’s colonial experience and the imposition of Western communication constructs inform the theoretical and methodological approaches to African communication scholarship. This essay examines the accomplishments of African communication scholarship attained out of a long history of engagement with intellectual debates about de-Westernization. We discuss how African communication scholars can foreground their commitment to maintaining the integrity of African scholarship in advancing African perspectives in communication studies.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2027997
Jenna N. Hanchey, G. Asante
ABSTRACT In this introductory essay to the second of two themed issues, “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives,” we examine the possibilities created by applying African perspectives in communication studies. We first overview the trajectories initiated by previous African communication scholarship before turning to the applications and interventions highlighted within this issue. Throughout this issue, we invite our readers to acknowledge the previous work that has allowed for African communication studies to be where it is now, and to join us in supporting the scholars yet to be recognized and the futures they labor to create.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2027996
Erik Johnson
ABSTRACT When Ghana gained its independence from colonial rule in March 1957, there was a midnight ceremony, and the new Prime Minister, Kwame Nkrumah, delivered a speech. Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech is an act of rhetorical invention adapted to postcolonial political foundation and, with Ghana as the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence, an available model of transfigurative politics for decolonizing Africa and its diaspora. I use the four constituents of Ghana’s independence ceremony—the crowd, Nkrumah, the Old Polo Grounds on which they gathered, and the midnight timing—to outline salient elements of emergent Ghana’s rhetorical culture. First, I argue that the crowd was the manifestation of the mass public of Ghana and a catalyst of colonial freedom. Next, I examine how Nkrumah personified the mass state that was caught between forms of anticolonial organizing and the media of the postcolonial state. Then, I analyze the Old Polo Grounds to focus on how Nkrumah’s rededication of national becoming to pan-African union sought to avoid the perpetuation of neocolonial dynamics. Finally, I argue that the liminal potential of midnight projected a new social imaginary that transfigured both present routines and prior traditions.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2027505
Nancy Maingi Ngwu
ABSTRACT Since W. Charles Redding’s call to maintain a sense of history in the subfield of organizational communication, our approach has largely been focused on institutionalizing and legitimizing organizational communication through static development narratives of the subfield’s emergence in the 1940s and 1950s, and key developments in topical interests in subsequent decades. While this is not unique to organizational communication, it makes it difficult to see the various ways history, as an organizing practice, is implicated in the constitution of a field. In this article, I suggest a shift toward fluid, shape-shifting practices of history as one way organizational communication can move toward a more open and inclusive practice—vital for coming to terms with history as a colonial structure and progressing in our own decolonial project. Toward this end, I propose African feminist organizational communication historiography as a novel approach for writing origin narratives, introducing theories, and legitimizing organizational forms that have been rendered alternative in organizational communication scholarship.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.2024871
Prisca Ngondo, A. Klyueva
ABSTRACT This article explores shared African philosophical values and cultural assumptions that could inform the continent's health communication campaigns and interventions. It reintroduces the overlooked and uniquely African concept of ubuntu, and invites further discussions of culture-centered perspectives on health communication theory, research, and practice. In ubuntu, the community is ontologically prior to an individual. The main assumptions of ubuntu center around values of inclusiveness, tolerance, transparency, and consensus-building, and can be translated from Zulu as “I am because we are”—in drastic contrast to Descartian/Western “I think therefore I am.” The article discusses theoretical and practical applications of ubuntu, suggesting scholars and practitioners reconsider health campaign approaches, specifically in Africa. More broadly, ubuntu can also be useful in Western settings, especially in contexts wherein the notion of community is heightened, even in individualistic societies. Focus on ubuntu crystallizes the potential of scholars and practitioners utilizing African perspectives to differentiate themselves from Western communication approaches and contribute unique viewpoints derived from the continent's cultural diversity. The article concludes with a call for the purposeful incorporation of ubuntu into health communication thinking.
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