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Wendy S. Hesford
Adela C. Licona
Christa Teston
Chapters in Precarious Rhetorics will model rhetorical analysis as a methodology (but might also employ
specific qualitative and/or empirical methods) for elucidating (i) the institutional and materialdiscursive machinations of precarity, and/or (ii) activists strategic, material-discursive mobilizations as
forms of political resistance to precarious conditions. This collection will also feature chapters that
explore precarious rhetorics in practice-oriented fields such as medicine, conflict resolution, public
policy, and sciencefields where the concept of precarity is already in use but might be marshaled
with dierently critical and transformative purchase.
We welcome contributions with U.S., global, international, and transnational foci, and invite inquiries
that, among more, mobilize theories of precarity to...
highlight how activists and social actors mobilize when resisting social-symbolic injustices (e.g.,
#BlackLiveMatter; die-in demonstrations; #ayotzinapa),
animate anew classical and contemporary constructs in rhetorical theory (e.g., kairos; metis;
techne),
influence how scholars and the biomedical industrial complex understand the body, health, and
technology,
challenge how bodies and populations are managed by settler states, the prison industrial
complex, border militarization and securitization, and/or the cradle to prison pipeline,
critique green technologies, clean oil, and corporatized notions of sustainability (e.g.
Monsanto),
understand and critique the displacement and disappearance of vulnerable communities (both
human and non-human) due to human activity and/or environmental racism,
Deadline for 250-word chapter abstracts and short bio is February 1, 2016. Editors will review
abstracts and invite full chapters (8,000-12,000 words, including endnotes and references) to be
submitted by July 1, 2016. All submissions should be in MS Word format and sent to,
Wendy S. Hesford | hesford.1@osu.edu