Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge scholarly studies and edited collections in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies. Interdisciplinary in approaches, these titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman Condition
1st Edition
By Jeff Pruchnic
August 03, 2016
It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies — from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics — seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and ...
Environmental Rhetoric and Ecologies of Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Goggin
May 31, 2016
Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience — the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society. This book explores some ...
Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media: Writing Ecology
1st Edition
Edited
By Sidney Dobrin
December 07, 2015
Moving beyond ecocomposition, this book galvanizes conversations in ecology and writing not with an eye toward homogenization, but with an agenda of firmly establishing the significance of writing research that intersects with ecology. It looks to establish ecological writing studies not just as a ...
Adaptive Rhetoric: Evolution, Culture, and the Art of Persuasion
1st Edition
By Alex C. Parrish
September 03, 2015
Rhetorical scholarship has for decades relied solely on culture to explain persuasive behavior. While this focus allows for deep explorations of historical circumstance, it neglects the powerful effects of biology on rhetorical behavior – how our bodies and brains help shape and constrain ...
Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication: Communicating as a Global Citizen
1st Edition
By Miriam Sobre-Denton, Nilanjana Bardhan
May 21, 2015
This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and ...
Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily Plec
May 21, 2015
Despite its inherent interdisciplinarity, the Communication discipline has remained an almost entirely anthropocentric enterprise. This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspective, an effort that brings a ...
Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments: Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions
1st Edition
By Ryan Malphurs
September 11, 2014
While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments. Malphurs ...
Communicating Marginalized Masculinities: Identity Politics in TV, Film, and New Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronald L. Jackson II, Jamie E. Moshin
July 03, 2014
For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and masculinity are socially...
Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness
1st Edition
By Wendy Ryden, Ian Marshall
July 03, 2014
In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive but actually thrive in higher education. As they examine the effects of racism on contemporary literacy ...
Rhetorics, Literacies, and Narratives of Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Goggin
July 03, 2014
In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability. Touching on topics including conservation efforts in specific locales; social and political constructions of rhetorical place and space; community ...
Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form: Sighting Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Demo, Bradford Vivian
November 08, 2013
This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are ...
The Rhetoric of Food: Discourse, Materiality, and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Joshua Frye, Michael Bruner
September 20, 2013
This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy. The essays visit a rich variety of dominant ...