Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric (eBook)

Ralph Cintron has a joint appointment in the Departments of English and Latin American and Latino Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Angels’ Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday, and is completing Democracy as Fetish: Fieldwork, Rhetoric, and the Oligarchic Condition.

Robert Hariman is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Political Style: The Artistry of Power and, with John Louis Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.

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Preface

Introduction
Robert Hariman

Chapter 1. The Communal Dilemma as a Cultural Resource in Hungarian Political Expression
David Boromisza-Habashi

Chapter 2. Chronotopes of the Political: Public Discourse, News Media, and Mass Action in Post-Conflict Macedonia
Andrew Graan

Chapter 3. The In-Between States: Enduring Catastrophes as Sources of Democracy’s Deadlocks in the Balkans: The Case of Kosovo
Naser Miftari

Chapter 4. Occupy Wall Street as Rhetorical Citizenship: The Ongoing Relevance of Pragmatism for Deliberative Democracy
Robert Danisch

Chapter 5. Contemporary Social Movements and the Emergent Nomadic Political Logic
Peter N. Funke and Todd Wolfson

Chapter 6. “Project Heat” and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing
Catherine Fennell

Chapter 7. Reading between the Digital Lines: Narrating the Political Rhetoric of Ethical Consumption
Eleftheria J. Lekakis

Chapter 8. The Uncertainty of Power and the Certainty of Irony: Encountering the State in Kara, Southern Ethiopia
Felix Girke

Chapter 9. Grassroots Discourses in Times of Scarcity: Debating the 2004 Locust Plague in Northwestern Senegal and the World
Christian Meyer

Chapter 10. Too Too Much Much: Presence and Catastrophe in Contemporary Art
Monica Westin

Conclusion: What Next? Modernity, Revolution, and the “Turn” to Catastrophe
Ralph Cintron

Contributors
Index