Precarious Rhetorics

<div>Across disciplines scholars have employed theories of precarity to help explain the pervasiveness of problems related to labor migration biopolitics global and state governance economies of war and violence poverty environmental degradation and a host of other pressing issues. <i>Precarous Rhetorics</i> is the first work to bring precarity studies to the field of rhetoric and communication-and to couple it with new materialist frameworks-in order to unearth and analyze the material conditions and structuring logics of inequality.<br> This collection features cross-disciplinary contributions from leading scholars including the editors of the volume as well as James J. Brown Jr. Gale Coskan-Johnson Ronald Greene Lavinia Hirsu Arabella Lyon Louis Maraj Sara McKinnon Alexandra Schultheis Moore Kimberlee Pérez Margaret Price Amy Shuman Kristin Swenson Becca Tarsa and Belinda Walzer. Chapters emphasize a materialist-rhetorical approach while also drawing on feminist studies women of color feminisms affect studies critical disability studies critical race and ethnic studies medical humanities sexuality studies queer migration studies and human rights and humanitarian studies. While theoretically rich this volume intentionally features chapters that explore precarious rhetorics as they operate <i>in practice</i>-whether in borderlands politics public policy or the quotidian spaces of human activity such as school work social media and medicine.<br>  </div>