Ben Voth

The Rhetoric of Genocide (eBook, ePUB)

Death as a Text

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Genocide represents one of the deadliest scourges of the human experience. Communication practices provide the key missing ingredient toward preventing and ending this intensely symbolic activity. The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text reveals how strategic communication silences make this tragedy probable, and how a greater social ethic for communication openness repels and ends this great evil. Careful analysis of practical historical figures, such as the great debater James Farmer Jr., along with empirical policy successes in places such as Liberia provide a communication-based template for ridding the world of genocide in the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739182062
• Artikelnr.: 41128118

Autorenporträt

Ben Voth is professor of rhetoric and director of debate and speech programs at Southern Methodist University, USA. As a collegiate speech and debate director he has coached more than five world champions, more than thirty national champions, and more than fifty state champions in speech and debate competitions over the past thirty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Role of Rhetoric and Communication in Genocide 2. State
Killings as Public Argument 3. Discursive Complexity as a Communication
Based Moral and Ethical Framework 4. The Cell Phone versus the AK-47 5. The
Genocidaire: The Perpetrator 6. Christianity as a Critical Methodology for
Moral Action 7. Islam and the Rhetorical Construct of Islamophobia 8.
Global Anti-Semitism: The Persistent Genocidal Trope 9. James Farmer: A
Model for Human Freedom 10. Gendercide: Sex Selection Abortion 11. Giving
War a Chance: Critical Theory and Genocide 12. Winning Wars against
Genocide 13. Conclusion: A World without Genocide Appendix: Student Essay:
Shia Islam