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Zhu argues that all rhetorics participate in the dynamics of power. It is pivotal to address how to subvert the systematic production of the Other, a power structure that is marked by an oppositional and essentialist understanding of subject positions and power relations—a structure that is reproduced in the ...

Murillo has been first lady of Nicaragua twice (1985-1990 and 2007-2017), vice president (2017-2025), and co-president (since February 2025). She also is a published poet who has been involved with revolutionary and establishment politics since the late 1960s. With her husband, Daniel Ortega, Murillo has been an important figure in the ...

Beyond Affirmation inspires feminist rhetorical scholarship to shift attention from the speech and action of individual rhetors to analysis of how and with what consequence rhetorics circulate. The book considers the rise and historicizes feminist rhetorical theory in the political moment of the Cold War. Beyond Affirmation attends to the ...

The ancient landmass of Gondwanaland began to break up 200 million years ago into what would become present-day Africa, Antarctica, Australasia, South America, and South Asia—a prehuman “Global South” connected territorially across the southern hemisphere. Named by European geologists in the nineteenth century after the Gondwana region in central India, ...

Intersectionality emerged as a critique of feminism from Black feminist activists and teacher-scholars in the 1970s. Intersectional perspectives illuminate how multiple aspects of identity come together and relate to one another. Romero proposes intersectional processes for analyzing classroom talk and text, and also innovating teaching and learning strategies attuned to ...

This volume brings together scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, business, and law to reimagine the nuances of regional interconnectivity in Asia and to challenge notions of boundaries and boundedness in reconceptualizing the field of Asian studies. Focusing on connections that animate Asian regionalism and the academic study of Asia, ...

Throughout Capricorn in Flux, Glaser’s eleventh book of poetry, we hear that same voice, vivid and precise and crackling with verve and wit. To borrow a line from Robert Lowell, he is still “free-lancing out along the razor’s edge.” But this time, the sprightliness is shadowed by a ...

Perched on the Eastern Continental Divide, Atlanta has always been a hard place to manage water—and to keep its waste out of sight. Atlanta’s Water Wars follows the development of the city’s water and sewer system from the postwar push for Buford Dam and metropolitan expansion to ...

Albert Einstein transformed our understanding of the universe—but he didn’t do it alone. This book traces the full arc of the relativity revolution, from the overlooked protorelativity period (1880–1905) to Einstein’s 1905 breakthrough and the long road to acceptance through the 1930s. It explains Einstein’s radical reconception of ...

Powering Colonialism explores the history of electrification and its relationship to colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand. In the 1880s, the Phoenix Mine in Otago installed a hydroelectric system to power its mining equipment, making gold mining one of the first industries in the colony to harness the potential of electric ...

This book explores how ideals of house and home provided crucial sites for the negotiation of India’s urban modernity during the twentieth century. Focused on Bombay, the cosmopolitan metropolis that defined the nature and possibilities of urban life on the subcontinent, Abigail McGowan centers domestic space in the narrative ...

There are large Hmong communities that relocated to Minnesota and Wisconsin following the end of the Laotian Civil War in 1975. Many of the children of these refugees are adults now who use translingual literacies as a bridge to connect places, cultures, and generations in their communities. These connections of language ...

In Atlantic Unbound, Peter Minosh examines neoclassical architecture within the Atlantic World—a site of colonialism, resource extraction, commodity circulation, capital, and slavery spanning Europe, North America, and the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book centers on France during the expansion of its colonial empire and the ...

Rhetoric has been concerned with truth from the beginning. Beginning at least with Plato, rhetoric often has been blamed for the death of truth. And the field of contemporary rhetorical studies has been skeptical of easy understandings of truth. Meanwhile, hostility to truth seems to be doing a lot of ...

Between 1973 and 1990, the authoritarian military dictatorship of Chile maintained its control through a network of detention and torture centers designed to create fear and isolation. With this book, Ana María Leon examines how architects, artists, activists, and other political agents resisted the Chilean regime through spatial practices. Within these ...