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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813122003321

Titolo

Culture, catastrophe, and rhetoric : the texture of political action / / edited by Robert Hariman and Ralph Cintron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

ISBN

1-78238-747-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Studies in rhetoric and culture ; ; volume 7

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Politics and culture

Political culture

Political participation

Social action

Rhetoric - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Culture, Catastrophe,and Rhetoric; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Communal Dilemma as a Cultural Resource in Hungarian Political Expression; Chapter 2. Chronotopes of the Political; Chapter 3. The In-Between States; Chapter 4. Occupy Wall Street as Rhetorical Citizenship; Chapter 5. Contemporary Social Movements and the Emergent Nomadic Political Logic; Chapter 6. "Project Heat" and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing; Chapter 7. Reading between the Digital Lines; Chapter 8. The Uncertainty of Power and the Certainty of Irony

Chapter 9. Grassroots Rhetorics in Times of ScarcityChapter 10. Too Too Much Much; Conclusion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of events and analyzes the performative dimensions of political experience. The attention to catastrophe allows for an understanding of how ordinary people contend with normal system operation once it is indistinguishable from system breakdown. Through an array of case



studies, the book provides an account of change as it is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society’s capacity for political action.