Precarious Rhetorics
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Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: Rhetorical Recalibrations and Response-abilities; by Wendy S. Hesford, Adela C. Licona, and Christa Teston
Violent Rhetorics: State Terror And Political Resistance
Resignifications: Movement, Migration, And Displacement
Rhetorical Navigations: Institutional And Infrastructural Instabilities
Works Cited
PART 1: VIOLENT RHETORICS
State Terror and Political Resistance
CHAPTER 1: Precaritization in the Security State: Ambient Akairos in Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary; by Alexandra S. Moore and Belinda Walzer
Kairos And The Post-9/11 Context
Akairos As Ambient Invention
Textual Strategies Of Ambient Akairos
Works Cited
CHAPTER 2: Precarious Narratives: Media Accounts of Islamic State Sexual Violence; by Wendy S. Hesford and Amy Shuman
Constitutive Rhetoric: Gendering Terror And Vulnerability
Trafficking Rape, Rescue, And Rights Narratives
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
CHAPTER 3: Necropolitics as Foreign Affairs Rhetoric in Contemporary U.S.-Mexico Relations; by Sara L. McKinnon
The Political Economy Ecology Of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy Frictions
Conclusion
Works Cited
CHAPTER 4: Embodying “I Can’t Breathe”: Tensions and Possibilities Between Appropriation and Coalition; by Kimberlee Pérez
Coalitional Moments At The Intersections Of Labor And Race
Appropriating Breath, Suffocating States
Holding Transnational Breath
Notes
Works Cited
PART II: RESIGNIFICATIONS
Movement, Migration, and Displacement
CHAPTER 5: Reciprocal Flowers: Precarious Rhetorics of Solidarity on a New Year’s Eve in Cologne; by Gale P. Coskan-Johnson
A Note On Precarious Rhetorics Of Solidarity
Viral Speech, Sharia, And A Leading German Feminist
Responding To 100 Women Responding
Concluding Thoughts, Or The Shocking Processes Of Forgetfulness
Works Cited
CHAPTER 6: Reversals of Precarity: Rewriting Buffalo’s Refugees as Neoliberal Subjects; by Arabella Lyon
Buffalo And The Refugee Crisis
Buffalo’s Geography As Rhetorical Space
Precarity Rewritten As Economic Potential
Discarding Precarity?
Paradoxes Abound
Responding To Neoliberal Monologues
Works Cited
CHAPTER 7: “Where am I? Do you have WiFi?”: Vital Technologies and Precarious Living in the Syrian Refugee Crisis; by Lavinia Hirsu
Smartphones: Tools For Measuring Precarious Living
Precarious Techno-human Assemblages
Seeing Beyond Images Of Smartphones
Unsettling New Grounds: Digital Inequalities
Conclusion: How To Care For Things That Matter
Notes
Works Cited
CHAPTER 8: The Non/Image of the Regime of Distortion; by Adela C. Licona
The Non/image As Visual Rhetorical Argument
Productive And Reductive Assemblages
Legislating Distortions
Interstitial Revisionings And Reverberations: Considering Wild Refractions And Relational Proximities
Notes
Works Cited
PART III: RHETORICAL NAVIGATIONS:
Institutional and Infrastructural Instabilities
CHAPTER 9: The Precarity of Disability/Studies in Academe; by Margaret Price
The Crisis Of Precarity In Disability Studies
The Unaccommodatable
The Disabled Faculty Study
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
CHAPTER 10: “Are You Black, Though?”: Black Autoethnography and Racing the Graduate Student /Instructor; by Louis M. Maraj
“if This Was Plantation Days” (continued)
Between Poetry And Rhetoric
Embodying Difference
Performing Difference
Notes
Works Cited
CHAPTER 11: Precarious Cooperation: Soft Skills and the Governing of Labor Power; by Ronald Walter Greene and Kristin Swenson
Soft Skills And Technical Skills: The U.s. Army And Modern Weapons
Soft Skills As Surplus Population: Precariousness And The Industrial Reserve Army
Command And Cooperation: Army Leadership And Soft Skills
The Precariousness Of Cooperation: Living Labor And Its Flight From Command
Soft Skills And Employability
Conclusion
Works Cited
CHAPTER 12: Complicit Interfaces; by Becca Tarsa and James J. Brown Jr.
Actionary And Reactionary Design
Embodiment And Speculative Designs
Speculative Design And Precarity Studies
Works Cited
CHAPTER 13: Pathologizing Precarity; by Christa Teston
Genetic Evidence’s Biopower
Analytic Rationale
Rhetorical Attunement In The Biomedical Backstage
Constructing Conditions For Care
Notes
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index