Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric: The Texture of Political Action

Contents\nList of Illustrations\nPreface\nIntroduction\n1. The Communal Dilemma as a Cultural Resource in Hungarian Political Expression\n2. Chronotopes of the Political: Public Discourse, News Media, and Mass Action in Postconflict Macedonia\n3. The In-Between States: Enduring Catastrophes as Sources of Democracy’s Deadlocks in Kosovo\n4. Occupy Wall Street as Rhetorical Citizenship: The Ongoing Relevance of Pragmatism for Deliberative Democracy\n5. Contemporary Social Movements and the Emergent Nomadic Political Logic\n6. “Project Heat” and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing\n7. Reading between the Digital Lines: The Political Rhetoric of Ethical Consumption\n8. The Uncertainty of Power and the Certainty of Irony: Encountering the State in Kara, Southern Ethiopia\n9. Grassroots Rhetorics in Times of Scarcity: Debating the 2004 Locust Plague in Northwestern Senegal and the World\n10. Too Too Much Much: Presence and Catastrophe in Contemporary Art\nConclusion: What Next? Modernity, Revolution, and the “Turn” to Catastrophe\nIndex