Distant Publics : Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis.
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- 9780822978015
- 307.1/4014
- P301
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rhethorical Vistas -- 1. Rhetoric's Development Crisis -- 2. The Public Subject of Feeling (with Exceptions) -- 3. Vultures and Kooks: The Rhetoric of Injury Claims -- 4. Lost Places and Memory Claims -- 5. The Good and the Bad: Gentrification and Equivalence Claims -- 6. Inquiry as Social Action -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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 provides case studies of development disputes that place the reader in the middle of real-life controversies and evidence her theories of claims-based public rhetorics.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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