Title: Ecologies of harm : rhetorics of violence in the United States /
Authors: Eatman, Megan
Year: 2020
Subjects: Violence in language United States.; Rhetoric Social aspects United States.; Rhetoric Political aspects United States.; Communication Social aspects United States; Communication Political aspects United States; Communication Political aspects; Communication Social aspects; Rhetoric Political aspects; Rhetoric Social aspects; Violence in language; United States
Abstract: "Examines the rhetoric around spectacles of organized public violence in lynching, capital punishment, and the torture in the War on Terror. Argues for an ecological approach to the ways rhetoric and violence function together to sustain inhospitable spaces and create challenges for antiviolence work"--
Contents: Introduction: Violent rhetorical ecologies -- Habits of violence: lynching as anti-deliberative epideixis -- "There must be a way of carrying it out": ideal and real in lethal injection -- Spectacular violence, mundane resistance -- Loss and critical memorialization -- Conclusion: Working through rhetoric and violence.