Quiet Defiance
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Quiet Defiance

The Rhetoric of Silent Protest

  1. 403 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Quiet Defiance

The Rhetoric of Silent Protest

About this book

Quiet Defiance: The Rhetoric of Silent Protest focuses on the rhetorical dimensions and power of silent protest. Bridging the gap between the study of protest and the study of rhetorical silence (strategic silence meant to communicate to and influence an audience), this book is the first of its kind to concentrate solely on the phenomenon and tradition of silent protest. The contributors to this volume hail from different cultures, disciplines, and fields. They examine past and present-day cases of silent protest with different research questions and paradigmatic perspectives in mind and methodological approaches at hand. Collectively, however, their original chapters offer a rich, multifaceted understanding of the potentialities, limits, nature, effects, risks, and rewards of silent acts of protest-individual or otherwise-against oppressive, unjust regimes and systems of power.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781978797871
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Rhetoric
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I: Silence, Presence, and Absence
  9. Chapter 1: Speaking in Silence: Rhetoric, Rancière, and the Blank Sign Protests of 2022
  10. Chapter 2: Vigils for Peace: Silent Presence as Political Action
  11. Chapter 3: Embodying Absence: Silence and Death at ACT UP’s 1992 Ashes Action
  12. Chapter 4: Silence as Political Engagement: Student-Led Silent Protests Advocating for LGBTQ+ Youth
  13. Chapter 5: The Rhetoric of Silence as Embodiment: Georgia Prisoners’ 2010 “Lockdown for Liberty”
  14. Part II: On Colin Kaepernick
  15. Chapter 6: Embodying Resistance: Situating Kaepernick’s Performative Symbolic Resistance as an Emic Perspective
  16. Chapter 7: The Silence and the Fury: Colin Kaepernick, Athletic Protest, and Noisy Affects
  17. Chapter 8: “I Just Couldn’t Be a Sellout”: Understanding Rihanna’s Absence during the 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show through Speech Acts Theory
  18. Part III: In Defense of Women’s Rights
  19. Chapter 9: Silence and Commercial Sex Work: Performing Silence as Strategy, Resistance, and the Articulation of Alternative Perspectives
  20. Chapter 10: Under Their Eyes: The Visuality of Handmaids as Resistance in Transnational Women’s Rights Protests
  21. Chapter 11: The Woman, Life, Freedom Movement: Social Media Videos of Women Cutting Hair and Burning Hijabs and the Rhetoric of Silent Protest
  22. Chapter 12: Red Card Qatar: Human Rights Protests at World Cup 2022
  23. Part IV: Silent Protest and the Digital Landscape
  24. Chapter 13: From Protest to Solidarity: How the Digital Era Is Changing the Volume of Silence
  25. Chapter 14: “Don’t Mistake My Silence as Not Caring”: Discourses of Nonvoters on Twitter
  26. Chapter 15: Silent Protests in and for the AttentionSphere: A Rhetorical Methodology for Studying Attention
  27. Chapter 16: Silent Protest and Cruel Imitation in Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Movement”
  28. Index
  29. About the Contributors