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What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit) by Christina R. Foust; Amy Pason; Kate Zittlow Rogness is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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1 online resource What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies. Recent protests around the world (such as the Arab Spring uprisings and Occupy Wall Street movements) have drawn renewed interest to the study of social change and, especially, to the manner in which words, images, events, and ideas associated with protestors can "move the social." What Democracy Looks Like is an attempt to foster a more coherent understanding of social change among scholars of rhetoric and communication studies by juxtaposing the ideas of social movements and counterpublics--historically two key factors significant in the study of social change. Foust, Pason, and Zittlow Rogness's volume compiles the voices of leading and new scholars who are contributing to the history, application, and new directions of these two concepts, all in conversation with a number of acts of resistance or social change. The theories of social movements and counterpublics are related, but distinct. Social move

Author

Christina R. Foust; Amy Pason; Kate Zittlow Rogness

Publisher

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817358938

Subjects

Language Learning, Sociology, Language