Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rhetoric and the Study of Social Change / Amy Pason, Christina R. Foust, and Kate Zittlow Rogness
I. Problematizing the Past of Social Movement Rhetoric and Counterpublic Research
1. Social Movement Scholarship: A Retrospective/Prospective Review / Raymie E. McKerrow
2. “Social Movement Rhetoric”: A Critical Genealogy, Post-1980 / Christina R. Foust
3. Counterpublic Theory Goes Global: A Chronicle of a Concept’s Emergences and Mobilities / Daniel C. Brouwer and Marie-Louise Paulesc
II. Distinguishing and Performing Counterpublics and Movements through Case Studies
4. Phenomenon or Meaning? A Tale of Two Occupies / Amy Pason
5. Pledge-a-Picketer, Power, Protest, and Publicity: Explaining Protest When the State/Establishment Is Not the Opposition / Catherine Helen Palczewski and Kelsey Harr-Lagin
6. (Re)turning to the Private Sphere: SlutWalks’ Public Negotiation of Privacy / Kate Zittlow Rogness
7. Against Equality: Finding the Movement in Rhetorical Criticism of Social Movements / Karma R. Chávez with Yasmin Nair and Ryan Conrad
III. New Directions for Studying Social Movements and Counterpublics Rhetorically
8. Latina/o Vernacular Discourse: Theorizing Performative Dimensions of an Other Counterpublic / Bernadette Marie Calafell and Dawn Marie D. McIntosh
9. Activism in the Wake of the Events of China and Social Media: Abandoning the Domesticated Rituals of Democracy to Explore the Dangers of Wild Public Screens / Kevin Michael DeLuca and Elizabeth Brunner
10. WikiLeaks and Its Production of the Common: An Exploration of Rhetorical Agency in the Neoliberal Era / Catherine Chaput and Joshua S. Hanan
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index