Quiet Defiance

David W. Seitz

doi:10.5771/9781666939002

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-3899-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3900-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 394
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
1. Notes No access
1. 1. Articulate Silence No access
  2. Logos No access
  3. Pathos No access
  4. Ethos No access
  5. Pistis No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
2. 1. Conclusion No access
  2. Notes No access
3. 1. Queering Silence and the Haunting Specter of AIDS No access
  2. Origins and Exigence for the 1992 Ashes Action No access
  3. The Ashes Action on October 11, 1992 No access
  4. Aftermath and Legacy No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
4. 1. Day of Silence No access
  2. Silence as Protest No access
  3. Silent Dissent in Educational Settings No access
  4. Effects of Day of Silence No access
  5. Critiques of the Day of Silence No access
  6. Suggestions for Activists and Educators No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
5. 1. The 2010 Georgia Prison Strikes No access
  2. Silence as Rhetorical: Prisoners Refusing to Act No access
  3. Refusal, Resistance, Context: Theories of Resistance No access
  4. Silence as Resistance No access
  5. Silence as a Strategy for Prison Resistance No access
  6. Notes No access
1. 1. Emic, Etic, and PSR’s Cultural Connection No access
  2. Elucidating an Emic Perspective: The Importance of What and How in a Symbolic Protest Act No access
  3. Kaepernick’s Tactical Silence No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Context: Sports as Anti-political and Defiant Athletes No access
  2. Sports and the Sacred Anthem No access
  3. Blackness, Silence, and Voice No access
  4. Noisy Affects No access
  5. Concluding Thoughts No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. The National Football League and Protest No access
  2. Ontology of Speech Acts No access
  3. The Case of Rihanna No access
  4. Rihanna’s Refusal and Absence No access
  5. Rihanna’s Refusal and Absence as Holding Illocutionary Force No access
  6. Conclusions and Implications No access
  7. Notes No access
1. 1. Methodology No access
  2. Dominant Discourses Surrounding the Construction of Commercial Sex Work as a Vocation: Silence and Alternative Perspectives No access
  3. Silence of Sex Workers’ Voices, Agency, and Volition: The Rhetoric of Agencies and Organizations No access
  4. Silence as a Survival Strategy to Procure Funding and Repudiating Silence by the Sex Workers No access
  5. Dominant Discourse Surrounding Rescue and Rehabilitation of Sex Workers: Silence and Alternative Perspectives No access
  6. Sex Workers’ Voices: Strategic Silence Versus No Silence No access
  7. Violence Against Sex Workers: Breaking Silence through Alternative Perspectives and Silence by Resentment No access
  8. Silence as Resentment in Claiming Victimhood No access
  9. Conclusion No access
  10. Notes No access
2. 1. Identification, Recognition, and Costume No access
  2. Visualizing Collective Action and Dissensus No access
  3. Political Responses and Implications No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. Silence and the Sociopolitical Context of Iran No access
  2. Women’s State in the Pre-revolutionary Iran No access
  3. Women’s State in the Post-revolutionary Iran No access
  4. Constructing Two Cases No access
  5. Case One: Videos of Women Burning Hijabs No access
  6. Case Two: Cutting Hair as a Silent Protest No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
4. 1. Legacy of Silent Protest in Sports No access
  2. Methodology for This Case Study No access
  3. 1. The Iranian National Team in Silent Protest No access
  4. 1. European Nations in Political Protest No access
    2. LGBTQIA+ Issues and the Armband No access
  5. 1. Where Are the U.S. Men’s National Team? No access
  6. 1. Cognitive Dissonance No access
    2. Sportswashing No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
1. 1. The Rhetoric of Silence No access
  2. The Rhetoric of Protest No access
  3. The Powerful Sound of Rhetorical Silence: Tank Man and Rosa Parks No access
  4. When the Volume of Silence Quiets: The Protests of Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, and #BlackoutTuesday No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Constructing Nonvoters No access
  2. Impact of Nonvoting Narratives No access
  3. Theories of Active Disengagement and Nonvoting No access
  4. Methodological Approach No access
  5. Discourse 1: Nonvoting as Communication No access
  6. Discourse 2: Candidate Fit and Characteristics No access
  7. Discourse 3: Access and Barriers No access
  8. Discourse 4: Frustrations over the “Not Voting” Label No access
  9. Discourse 5: Questioning Impact No access
  10. Discussion No access
  11. Conclusion No access
  12. Appendix A: Gee’s Meaning-Making Tasks, Definitions, and Examples No access
  13. Appendix B: Step-by-Step Procedure No access
  14. Notes No access
3. 1. Theoretical Frame for Modern Attention and Its Silent Protest No access
  2. The Historical Emergence of Modern Attention, 1800–2000 No access
  3. The Modern Idea of Attention: A Positable Universal Mechanism No access
  4. Rhetorical Methodology for Studying Attention No access
  5. Rhetorical Attention as a Site of Struggle and Aspect of Silent Protest No access
  6. Community Space: Attentional Activism Groups No access
  7. Digital Space: Ad Blockers No access
  8. Physical Civic Space: Yarn Bombing and Knitfitti No access
  9. Conclusion No access
  10. Notes No access
4. 1. Approaching the Umbrella Movement: Defining Democracy and Cruel Imitation Online No access
  2. 1. Circulating “Moderate” Appeal No access
    2. Polarized Popularity: Circulation and Tear Gas No access
    3. LegCo: Repression of a Popular Movement No access
  3. A Rhetoric of Silence: Cruel Imitation No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
Index No access Pages 381 - 388
About the Contributors No access Pages 389 - 394