Distant Publics Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis

Name: Distant Publics Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis
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ISBN: 9780822962045

ISBN-10: 0822962047

ISBN-13: 9780822962045

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jenny Rice

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Urban sprawl is omnipresent in America and has left many citizens questioning their ability to stop it. InDistant Publics,Jenny Rice examines patterns of public discourse that have evolved in response to development in urban and suburban environments. Centering her study on Austin, Texas, Rice finds a city that has simultaneously celebrated and despised development.Rice outlines three distinct ways that the rhetoric of publics counteracts development: through injury claims, memory claims, and equivalence claims. In injury claims, rhetors frame themselves as victims in a dispute. Memory claims allow rhetors to anchor themselves to an older, deliberative space, rather than to a newly evolving…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 8/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Rhetorical Vistas



Rhetoric's Development Crisis



The Public Subject of Feeling (with Exceptions)



Vultures and Kooks: The Rhetoric of Injury Claims



Lost Places and Memory Claims



The Good and the Bad: Gentrification and Equivalence Claims



Inquiry as Social Action


Epilogue: Working in the Epi-logos


Notes


Works Cited


Index