Field rhetoric : ethnography, ecology, and engagement in the places of persuasion / edited by Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke.

"Places of Persuasion explores innovative scholarship emerging at the intersection of rhetoric and field-based studies, or ethnography. Field methods allow researchers to capture rhetoric-in-action and to observe the dynamic circumstances that shape persuasion in ordinary life. The recent proliferation of rhetorically oriented fieldwork warrants a collection that gathers, describes, and theorizes this burgeoning, interdisciplinary (and even transdisciplinary) body--and method--of scholarship. Places of Persuasion documents and supports this ethnographic turn in rhetorical studies through a sustained examination of the diverse trends, methods, tools, theories, practices, and possibilities for engaging in rhetorical field research. The book offers an introduction to these inquiries, and serves as both a practical resource and theoretical foundation for scholars, teachers, and students hoping to work at the intersection of rhetoric and field studies. The collection will also provide a useful resource for interdisciplinary qualitative researchers interested in doing research from a rhetorical or discursive perspective in diverse disciplines, such as English, composition, communication, natural resources, geography, sociology, urban planning, and anthropology"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On being there: an introduction to studying rhetoric in the field / Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke -- Agonistic methodology: a rhetorical case study in agricultural stewardship / Caroline Gottschalk Druschke -- Historiographic remembering and emotional encounters: possibilities for field-based rhetorical research / Heather Brook Adams -- What's a farm? the languages of space and place / Carl G. Herndl, Sarah Beth Hopton, Lauren Cutlip, Elena Yu Polush, Rick Cruse, Mack Shelley -- Rhetorical cartographies: (counter)mapping urban spaces / Samantha Senda-Cook, Michael K. Middleton, and Danielle Endres -- Bus trip named desire: doing fieldwork in the Balkans / Ralph Cintron -- Belonging to the world: rhetorical fieldwork as mundane aesthetic / Bridie McGreavy, Emma Fox, Jane Disney, Chris Petersen, and Laura Lindenfeld -- Rhetorical life among the ruins / John M. Ackerman -- Fieldwork and the identification and assembling of agencies / Jeffrey T. Grabill, Kendall Leon, and Stacey Pigg -- Rhetoric(s) of urban public life / erin daina mcclellan -- Rhetoric, ethnography, and the machine: technological reflexivity and the participatory critic / Aaron Hess -- Traveling worlds to engage rhetoric's perennial questions / Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Gerard A. Hauser.

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