The Rhetoric Of Social Movements

Author : Nathan Crick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429790522

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The Rhetoric of Social Movements by Nathan Crick Pdf

This collection provides an accessible yet rigorous survey of the rhetorical study of historical and contemporary social movements and promotes the study of relations between strategy, symbolic action, and social assemblage. Offering a comprehensive collection of the latest research in the field, The Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media suggests a framework for the study of social movements grounded in a methodology of "slow inquiry" and the interconnectedness of these imminent phenomena. Chapters address the rhetorical tactics that social movements use to gain attention and challenge power; the centrality of traditional and new media in social movements; the operations of power in movement organization, leadership, and local and global networking; and emerging contents and environments for social movements in the twenty-first century. Each chapter is framed by case studies (drawn from movements across the world, ranging from Black Lives Matter and Occupy to Greek anarchism and indigenous land protests) that ground conceptual characteristics of social movements in their continuously unfolding reality, furnishing readers with both practical and theoretical insights. The Rhetoric of Social Movements will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of rhetoric, communication, media studies, cultural studies, social protest and activism, and political science.

Author : Christina R. Foust,Amy Pason,Kate Zittlow Rogness
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817358938

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What Democracy Looks Like by Christina R. Foust,Amy Pason,Kate Zittlow Rogness Pdf

A compelling and timely collection that combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies

Author : Susan K. Opt,Mark A. Gring
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781412956895

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The Rhetoric of Social Intervention by Susan K. Opt,Mark A. Gring Pdf

The first-ever thorough exploration and discussion of the rhetorical model of social invention [RSI] (initially conceived by rhetorical theorist William R. Brown) for today's students and scholars.

Author : Charles E. Morris,Stephen Howard Browne
Publisher : Bookrenter
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1891136305

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Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest by Charles E. Morris,Stephen Howard Browne Pdf

Author : Sharon McKenzie Stevens,Patricia M. Malesh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781438426433

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Active Voices by Sharon McKenzie Stevens,Patricia M. Malesh Pdf

From suffragettes to vegans, participants in social movements strive to change the worlds they inhabit, whether by direct action, rallies, marches, organized work stoppages, or engaging government power in service of their aims. Active Voices explores both the rhetorical dimensions of such activist activities and the integral role of rhetoric in the processes of social transformation. This collection balances in-depth analyses of particular movements and pedagogical projects with broader perspectives on how language and embodied action shape avenues for activism. Featured are a wide range of sites for social change, from the progressive education movement to African American drum circles, and from prisoner reentry programs to the nineteenth-century women's suffrage movement. Speaking as scholars, activists, storytellers, rhetoricians, and teachers, the contributors blur the boundaries between different aspects of their identities and challenge divisions between creating theory and practicing it.

Author : John W. Bowers,Donovan J. Ochs,Richard J. Jensen,David P. Schulz
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781478608110

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The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control by John W. Bowers,Donovan J. Ochs,Richard J. Jensen,David P. Schulz Pdf

This compelling text is a careful examination of the rhetoric of dissent. The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control provides a framework for the study of agitation and responses to that agitation. The third edition offers a profile of past and current movements, such as the street theatre of Chicago in 1968 and the innovative and technological rhetorical techniques found in the "Battle in Seattle." The modus operandi of todays protests continues to evolve from that of the 1960s and 1970s. As smartphones and the Internet replace tie-dyed shirts and flower power, contemporary students and scholars alike will find this edition of The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control to be a helpful tool in studying the progression of social and protest movements.

Author : Katherine A. Jankowski
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1563680610

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Deaf Empowerment by Katherine A. Jankowski Pdf

This book makes a strong case for distinguishing the Deaf movement from social movements occurring in the disability community. It should be read by anyone who wants to know why this political and ideological split between deaf people and people with other types of physical impairments is occurring.

Author : Stephen A. King
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496800398

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Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control by Stephen A. King Pdf

Who changed Bob Marley’s famous peace-and-love anthem into “Come to Jamaica and feel all right?” When did the Rastafarian fighting white colonial power become the smiling Rastaman spreading beach towels for American tourists? Drawing on research in social movement theory and protest music, Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control traces the history and rise of reggae and the story of how an island nation commandeered the music to fashion an image and entice tourists. Visitors to Jamaica are often unaware that reggae was a revolutionary music rooted in the suffering of Jamaica’s poor. Rastafarians were once a target of police harassment and public condemnation. Now the music is a marketing tool, and the Rastafarians are no longer a “violent counterculture” but an important symbol of Jamaica’s new cultural heritage. This book attempts to explain how the Jamaican establishment’s strategies of social control influenced the evolutionary direction of both the music and the Rastafarian movement. From 1959 to 1971, Jamaica’s popular music became identified with the Rastafarians, a social movement that gave voice to the country’s poor black communities. In response to this challenge, the Jamaican government banned politically controversial reggae songs from the airwaves and jailed or deported Rastafarian leaders. Yet when reggae became internationally popular in the 1970s, divisions among Rastafarians grew wider, spawning a number of pseudo-Rastafarians who embraced only the external symbolism of this worldwide religion. Exploiting this opportunity, Jamaica’s new Prime Minister, Michael Manley, brought Rastafarian political imagery and themes into the mainstream. Eventually, reggae and Rastafari evolved into Jamaica’s chief cultural commodities and tourist attractions.

Author : Charles J. Stewart,Craig Allen Smith,Robert E. Denton (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Persuasion (Psychology)
ISBN : UCSC:32106018391877

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Persuasion and Social Movements by Charles J. Stewart,Craig Allen Smith,Robert E. Denton (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Donatella Della Porta,Mario Diani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199678402

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The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements by Donatella Della Porta,Mario Diani Pdf

The Handbook presents a most updated and comprehensive exploration of social movement research. It not only maps, but also expands the field of social movement studies, taking stock of recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. While structured around traditional social movement concepts, each section combines the mapping of the state of the art with attempts to broaden our knowledge of social movements beyond classic theoretical agendas, and to identify the contribution that social movement studies can give to other fields of knowledge.

Author : Hank Johnston
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745682341

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What is a Social Movement? by Hank Johnston Pdf

Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change. They were instrumental in the creation of the modern state and, today, are major forces in politics and culture. Environmentalism, gay rights, alterglobalization, and Islamic fundamentalism are all movements with far-reaching impacts on contemporary society. What is a Social Movement? traces how the study of movements such as these - of their structures, their ideas, and their repertoires of protest - have grown in recent years to become a major focus in the social sciences. It deftly navigates the organizational, ideational, and cultural complexity of political and social movements, and offers a succinct but comprehensive overview of the hows, whys, and wheretofores of studying them. The book analyzes how politics and culture frequently intersect as people participate in movements that call for change and pursue group interests. By focusing on movement organizations and networks, on what they do, and how they articulate their ideas of justice and collective interests, What is a Social Movement? lays the essential groundwork for understanding this significant and exciting field of research, where it came from, and where it is headed.

Author : Sean Patrick O'Rourke,Lesli K. Pace
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781643360836

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Like Wildfire by Sean Patrick O'Rourke,Lesli K. Pace Pdf

The sit-ins of the American civil rights movement were extraordinary acts of dissent in an age marked by protest. By sitting in at "whites only" lunch counters, libraries, beaches, swimming pools, skating rinks, and churches, young African Americans and their allies put their lives on the line, fully aware that their actions would almost inevitably incite hateful, violent responses from entrenched and increasingly desperate white segregationists. And yet they did so in great numbers: most estimates suggest that in 1960 alone more than seventy thousand young people participated in sit-ins across the American South and more than three thousand were arrested. The simplicity and purity of the act of sitting in, coupled with the dignity and grace exhibited by participants, lent to the sit-in movement's sanctity and peaceful power. In Like Wildfire, editors Sean Patrick O'Rourke and Lesli K. Pace seek to clarify and analyze the power of civil rights sit-ins as rhetorical acts—persuasive campaigns designed to alter perceptions of apartheid social structures and to change the attitudes, laws, and policies that supported those structures. These cohesive essays from leading scholars offer a new appraisal of the origins, growth, and legacy of the sit-ins, which has gone largely ignored in scholarly literature. The authors examine different forms of sitting-in and the evolution of the rhetorical dynamics of sit-in protests, detailing the organizational strategies they employed and connecting them to later protests. By focusing on the persuasive power of demanding space, the contributors articulate the ways in which the protestors' battle for basic civil rights shaped social practices, laws, and the national dialogue. O'Rourke and Pace maintain that the legacies of the civil rights sit-ins have been many, complicated, and at times undervalued.

Author : James M. Jasper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226394961

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The Art of Moral Protest by James M. Jasper Pdf

In The Art of Moral Protest, James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest—from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements—into a distinctive new understanding of how social movements work. Jasper highlights their creativity, not only in forging new morals but in adopting courses of action and inventing organizational forms. "A provocative perspective on the cultural implications of political and social protest."—Library Journal

Author : Alison Mack,Alina Baciu,Roundtable on Population Health Improvement,Nirupa Goel,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309303311

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Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity by Alison Mack,Alina Baciu,Roundtable on Population Health Improvement,Nirupa Goel,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities,Institute of Medicine Pdf

"Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity" is the summary of a workshop convened in December 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement to explore the lessons that may be gleaned from social movements, both those that are health-related and those that are not primarily focused on health. Participants and presenters focused on elements identified from the history and sociology of social change movements and how such elements can be applied to present-day efforts nationally and across communities to improve the chances for long, healthy lives for all. The idea of movements and movement building is inextricably linked with the history of public health. Historically, most movements - including, for example, those for safer working conditions, for clean water, and for safe food - have emerged from the sustained efforts of many different groups of individuals, which were often organized in order to protest and advocate for changes in the name of such values as fairness and human rights. The purpose of the workshop was to have a conversation about how to support the fragments of health movements that roundtable members believed they could see occurring in society and in the health field. Recent reports from the National Academies have highlighted evidence that the United States gets poor value on its extraordinary investments in health - in particular, on its investments in health care - as American life expectancy lags behind that of other wealthy nations. As a result, many individuals and organizations, including the Healthy People 2020 initiative, have called for better health and longer lives.

Author : Kevin Michael DeLuca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136503061

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Image Politics by Kevin Michael DeLuca Pdf

This exceptional volume examines “image events” as a rhetorical tactic utilized by environmental activists. Author Kevin Michael DeLuca analyzes widely televised environmentalist actions in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfills fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing and transforming identities, discourses, communities, cultures, and world views. Image Politics also exhibits how such events create opportunities for a politics that does not rely on centralized leadership or universal metanarratives. The book presents a rhetoric of the visual for our mediated age as it illuminates new political possibilities currently enacted by radical environmental groups. Chapters in the volume cover key areas of environmental activism such as: *The rhetoric of social movements; *Imaging social movements; *Environmental justice groups; and *Participatory democracy. This book is of interest to scholars and students of rhetorical theory, media and communication theory, visual theory, environmental studies, social change movements, and political theory. It will also appeal to others interested in ecology, radical environmental politics, and activism, and is an excellent supplemental text in advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in these areas.