What democracy looks like : the rhetoric of social movements and counterpublics / [edited by] Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, Kate Zittlow Rogness.

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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 Studies4. 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 Rhetorically8. 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.

What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies. Recent protests around the world (such as the Arab Spring uprisings and Occupy Wall Street movements) have drawn renewed interest to the study of social change and, especially, to the manner in which words, images, events, and ideas associated with protestors can "move the social." What Democracy Looks Like is an attempt to foster a more coherent understanding of social change among scholars of rhetoric and communication studies by juxtaposing the ideas of social movements and counterpublics--historically two key factors significant in the study of social change. Foust, Pason, and Zittlow Rogness's volume compiles the voices of leading and new scholars who are contributing to the history, application, and new directions of these two concepts, all in conversation with a number of acts of resistance or social change. The theories of social movements and counterpublics are related, but distinct. Social movement theories tend to be concerned with enacting policy and legislative changes. Scholars flying this flag have concentrated on the organization and language (for example, rallies and speeches) that are meant to enact social change. Counterpublic theory, on the other hand, focuses less on policy changes and more on the unequal distribution of power and resources among different protest groups, which is sometimes synonymous with subordinated identity groups such as race, gender, sexuality, and class. Nonetheless, contributors argue that in recent years the distinctions between these two methods have become less evident. By putting the literatures of the two theories in conversation with one another, these scholars seek to promote and imagine social change outside the typical binaries.-- Provided by Publisher

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