Description
Book SynopsisGathers new essays that describe and theorize this burgeoning transdisciplinary mode of field-based scholarship. Contributors document and support this ethnographic turn in rhetorical studies through sustained examination of the diverse trends, methods, tools, theories, practices, and possibilities for engaging in rhetorical field research.
Trade ReviewRai and Druschke have brought together an outstanding group of scholars to address an important and increasing area of concern for rhetorical scholars: How may we incorporate field methods into our research to study a wider range of rhetorical practices? This volume will appeal to rhetoric faculty and graduate students in both communication and English, as well as scholars in related disciplines who may be interested in a rhetorical approach to studying culture and society."" - Robert Asen, author of
Democracy, Deliberation, and EducationTable of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- On Being There: An Introduction to Studying Rhetoric in the Field
- Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
- 1. Agonistic Methodology: A Rhetorical Case Study in Agricultural Stewardship
- Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
- 2. Historiographic Remembering and Emotional Encounters: Possibilities for Field-Based Rhetorical Research
- Heather Brook Adams
- 3. What’s a Farm? The Languages of Space and Place
- Carl G. Herndl, Sarah Beth Hopton, Lauren Cutlip, Elena Yu Polush, Rick Cruse, Mack Shelley
- 4. Rhetorical Cartographies: (Counter)Mapping Urban Spaces
- Samantha Senda-Cook, Michael K. Middleton, and Danielle Endres
- 5. Bus Trip Named Desire: Doing Fieldwork in the Balkans
- Ralph Cintron
- 6. Belonging to the World: Rhetorical Fieldwork as Mundane Aesthetic
- Bridie McGreavy, Emma Fox, Jane Disney, Chris Petersen, and Laura Lindenfeld
- 7. Rhetorical Life among the Ruins
- John M. Ackerman
- 8. Fieldwork and the Identification and Assembling of Agencies
- Jeffrey T. Grabill, Kendall Leon, and Stacey Pigg
- 9. Rhetoric(s) of Urban Public Life
- erin daina mcclellan
- 10. Rhetoric, Ethnography, and the Machine: Technological Reflexivity and the Participatory Critic
- Aaron Hess
- Afterword: Traveling Worlds to Engage Rhetoric’s Perennial Questions
- Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Gerard A. Hauser
- Bibliography
- Contributor Notes
- Index
