ABSTRACT

Readings in Rhetorical Fieldwork compiles foundational articles highlighting the development of fieldwork in rhetorical criticism. Presenting a wide variety of approaches, the volume begins with a section establishing the starting points for the development of fieldwork in rhetorical criticism and then examines five topics: Space & Place; Public Memory; Publics and Counterpublics; Advocacy and Activism; and Science, Technology, and Medicine. Within these sections, readers evaluate a full spectrum of methods, from interviews, to oral histories, to participant observation. This volume is invaluable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of rhetorical criticism, rhetorical fieldwork, and qualitative methods looking for a comprehensive overview of the development of rhetorical fieldwork.

part I|73 pages

Starting Points

chapter 1|12 pages

Attending the Vernacular

A Plea for an Ethnographical Rhetoric

chapter 4|22 pages

Critical-Rhetorical Ethnography

Rethinking the Place and Process of Rhetoric

part II|49 pages

Space and Place

chapter 6|15 pages

Excerpt From “Mapping/Texting”

chapter 7|14 pages

Performing and Sustaining (Agri)Culture and Place

The Cultivation of Environmental Subjectivity on the Piedmont Farm Tour

part III|55 pages

Public Memory

chapter 8|17 pages

Spaces of Remembering and Forgetting

The Reverent Eye/I at the Plains Indian Museum

chapter 9|16 pages

Silencing Survivors’ Narratives

Why Are We Again Forgetting the No Gun Ri Story?

part IV|58 pages

Publics and Counterpublics

chapter 11|22 pages

Resisting “National Breast Cancer Awareness Month”

The Rhetoric of Counterpublics and Their Cultural Performances

chapter 13|17 pages

Unframing Models of Public Distribution

From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies

part V|71 pages

Advocacy and Activism

chapter 14|29 pages

The Streets of Laredo

Mercurian Rhetoric and the Obama Campaign

chapter 15|22 pages

Activism, Deliberation, and Networked Public Screens

Rhetorical Scenes From the Occupy Movement in Lincoln, Nebraska (Parts 1 & 2) 1

chapter 16|18 pages

Narrative as Vernacular Rhetoric

Understanding Community Among Transients, Tourists, and Locals

part VI|56 pages

Science, Technology, and Medicine

chapter 17|18 pages

Marbles, Dimples, Rubber Sheets, and Quantum Wells

The Role of Analogy in the Rhetoric of Science 1

chapter 18|22 pages

Multiple Ontologies in Pain Management

Toward a Postplural Rhetoric of Science

chapter 19|14 pages

Watershed as Common-Place

Communicating for Conservation at the Watershed Scale