Unruly rhetorics : protest, persuasion, and publics / edited by Jonathan Alexander, Susan C. Jarratt, and Nancy Welch.

Feminist body rhetoric in the #unrulymob, Texas, 2013 -- Walking with relatives: indigenous bodies of protest -- A groove we can move to: the sound and sense of Quebec's Manifs Casseroles, spring 2012 -- Steven Salaita's rhetorical refusal: taking to Twitter as a form of political resistance and protest -- Slutwalk is not enough: notes toward a critical feminist rhetoric -- Informed, passionate, and disorderly: uncivil rhetoric in a new gilded age -- Circulating voices of dissent: rewriting the life of James Eads How and Hobo news -- We are not all in this together: a case for advocacy, factionalism, and making the political personal -- The tone it takes: an eighteen-day sit-in at Syracuse University -- The Steven Salaita case: public rhetoric and the political imagination in US college composition and its professional associations.

What forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation? Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly. An introduction drawing on Jacques Ranciere and Judith Butler explores the conditions under which civil discourse cannot adequately redress suffering or injustice. The essays offer analyses of "unruliness" in case studies from both twenty-first-century and historical sites of social-justice protest. The collection concludes with an afterword highlighting and inviting further exploration of the ethical, political, and pedagogical questions unruly rhetorics raise. Examining multiple modes of expression -- embodied, print, digital, and sonic -- Unruly Rhetorics points to the possibility that unruliness, more than just one of many rhetorical strategies within political activity, is constitutive of the political itself

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