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  • Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age

    by Marouf Hasian ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities
    In the past decade, the United States has rapidly deployed militarized drones in theaters of war for surveillance as well as targeted killing. The swiftness with which drones were created and put into service has outstripped the development of an associated framework for discussing them, with the result that basic conversations about these lethal weapons have been stymied for a lack of a shared ... Read more

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  • In the Name of Necessity

    Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties

    by Marouf Hasian ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Examining how claims of necessity have reshaped American liberty in times of war.Though the war on terrorism is said to have generated unprecedented military situations, arguments for the Patriot Act and military tribunals following 9/11 resemble many historical claims for restricting civil liberties, more often than not in the name of necessity.Marouf Hasian Jr. examines the major legal cases ... Read more

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  • Humanitarian Aid and the Impoverished Rhetoric of Celebrity Advocacy

    Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy – from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West – this book provides scholars and readers with a better understanding of some of the short-term and long-term impacts of various forms of celebrity activism.Each chapter illustrates how the impoverished rhetoric of celebrities often privileges the voices of ... Read more

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  • Legal Memories And Amnesias In America's Rhetorical Culture

    In Legal Memories and Amnesias in America's Rhetorical Culture, Marouf Hasian, Jr. critically examines the rhetoric of law--specifically, the shifting lines between the notions of liberty and license. Hasian, Jr. explores how such issues as immigration, labor, national identity, race, and genetics have caused society to change how it thinks about, and uses, laws. In Legal Memories and Amnesias in ... Read more

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  • Communicating during Humanitarian Medical Crises

    The Consequences of Silence or “Témoignage”

    The Promise and Perils of " Silence" or " Temoignage" During Humanitarian Crises provides readers with a nuanced study of what happens when historical and 21st century medical humanitarian communities, armed with their idealistic rhetorics, choose whether to speak out or remain silent during various military or medical crises. The author uses a series of case studies from the late nineteenth ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013–2016 West African Ebola Outbreak

    Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African Ebola Outbreak defends the position that, despite the supposed “lessons” that have been learned about the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after the 2013–2016 West African Ebola outbreak, there remains a need to “decolonize” the rhetorics of Ebola prevention and containment. The author asserts that the failure of governments, aid ... Read more

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  • Forensic Rhetorics and Satellite Surveillance

    The Visualization of War Crimes and Human Rights Violations

    Forensic Rhetorics and Satellite Surveillance: The Visualization of War Crimes and Human Rights Violations uses cases studies of satellite surveillance over the skies of Darfur, Gaza, Bosnia, Pakistan, and the Mediterranean to provide readers with an overview of some of the technological, analytic, and political complexities of satellite surveillance imagery usage. Marouf Hasian, Jr. illustrates ... Read more

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  • Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyses the debates on colonial genocide in the 21st century and introduces cases where states are reluctant to acknowledge genocides. The author departs from traditional studies of the work of Raphael Lemkin or U.N. definitions of genocide so that readers can examine genocide recognition as a political act that is bound up in partial perceptions and political motivations. The study ... Read more

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  • A Postcolonial Critique of the Linde et al. v. Arab Bank, PLC "Terrorism" Bank Cases

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides readers with a postcolonial reading of the case of Linde et al. v. Arab Bank, PLC, and argues that American courtrooms are being used by rhetors to tell Anglo-American stories about Hamas, the causes of the Second Intifada, and the importance of 'drying up' terrorist financing. ... Read more

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  • Racial Terrorism

    A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching

    Series series Fannie Lou Hamer Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
    In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the nation’s first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators, representing the American people, classified lynching as a federal hate crime.While lynching histories and memories have received attention among communication scholars and some interdisciplinary studies of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Memory and Monument Wars in American Cities

    New York, Charlottesville and Montgomery

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about the ways U.S. cities have responded to some of the most pressing political, cultural, racial issues of our time as agentic, remembering actors. Our case studies include New York City’s securitized remembrances at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum; Charlottesville’s Confederate monument controversies in the wake of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally; and Montgomery’s ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Representing Ebola

    Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak

    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    Representing Ebola provides readers with a critical legal analysis of the recent West African Ebola Outbreak. The author argues that a review of the scientific, military, legal, economic, political, and mediated coverage of this latest outbreak highlights the ways that organizations like the World Health Organization or Doctors Without Borders want to conceptualize the importance of rapid ... Read more

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