This book shows how place-based organizing and community action can solve complex problems like long-term recovery after disaster. Jack L. Harris proposes a framework for expanding interorganizational collaborations with communities after disaster through changes in government disaster policy and institutional messages.
A Companion to African Rhetoric argues for a holistic view of rhetoric on the continent, gives an outline of what African rhetoric is, and serves as a pivotal anthology with contributions from African, Afro-Caribbean and African American rhetoricians to understanding African rhetoric.
A collection of essays which deploy rhetorical lenses to explore how mathematics influences the values and beliefs with which we assess the world and make decisions, as well as how our values and beliefs influence the kinds of mathematical instruments we construct and accept.
Bicycling, Motorcycling, Rhetoric, and Space draws from cultural studies, rhetorical theory, and political philosophy to examine bicycling and motorcycling as serious forms of communication and thought.
Confronting Automaticity in Everyday Communication
In this book, the authors describe and challenge the pervasive and often unconscious "ease" in our everyday communication. By both raising critical awareness of "ease" and introducing cognitive, emotional and communicative resources, the authors provide readers with strategies to engage in effective communication about difficult subjects.
This authoritative handbook connects research and industry practice in a one-stop reference for media students and professionals. Addressing the latest technologies and business practices, the handbook offers strategic guidance for solving media management issues in a convergent environment.
Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric is an authoritative collection of new and published works designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the theory of invitational rhetoric, developed twenty-five years ago by the volume editors.
This book explores how online therapy communities offer an accessible space that is not confined by economic abilities, geographical barriers, or familial restraints. Scholars of communication, sociology, and psychology will find this book of particular interest.
This book draws on Catherine Malabou's work on plasticity, investigating the transformative power of sport both in its ability to positively shape and, conversely, to destroy. Foschia positions sport as the ontological and discursive force that shapes how we work, watch, and play
