Toward More-Public Rhetoric

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-121
Author(s):  
Terrence R. Tutchings
Keyword(s):  
Public Rhetoric

Explaining Resistance to Early Nineteenth-Century British Emigrants to New South Wales

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Melanie Burkett
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Assisted Migration ◽  
British Government ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
Labour Shortage ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Persistent Pattern ◽  
Political Economic

Abstract In the 1830s, the British government commenced a programme of relocating poor labourers to its Australian colony of New South Wales, a practice known as ‘assisted migration’. Though intended to address the colony’s labour shortage, the new arrivals were met with hostility by the colonial elite, who claimed the immigrants were immoral and unsuitable as workers. While migration historians have shown these judgements to be largely unfair, the forces underpinning these perceptions await a thorough interrogation. This article examines colonial public rhetoric about immigration to reveal attitudes shaped by a tangle of overlapping and reinforcing political, economic, and cultural factors. Ultimately, the colonial elite wanted to control who could enter their community, both physically and socially, which became a temporally persistent pattern vital to the settler colonial project.

scholarly journals Brian Cox and the new enlightenment

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-178
Author(s):  
Tina Skouen
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
Lecture Video ◽  
National Science ◽  
Public Engagement In Science ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Science Academy ◽  
Major Figure

This paper studies the Royal Society's public rhetoric of science by analysing Brian Cox, whose rise to science prominence corresponded with his period as a Royal Society University Research Fellow from 2005 to 2013. The first study, to my knowledge, to address this major figure in popular science, the paper analyses his goals and methods in light of the ‘new Enlightenment’ that was advocated by the Society's then President, Paul Nurse, in 2012. Like the founders of this national science academy in the 1660s, Nurse hailed Francis Bacon as a lodestar when it comes to inspiring awe and respect of rationality and of what science can do both in Britain and globally. Appointed as the Society's first Professor for Public Engagement in Science in 2015, Cox has worked to achieve the Society's goals of creating enthusiasm and ‘demonstrating the value of science to everyone’. He has also been instrumental in recruiting more young people to pursue a career in science. Through rhetorical analysis of a lecture video and other online material, the paper identifies some key features in his style of performance, especially regarding his methods of producing awe and wonder.

Rational Superiority, Crises, and Arms Control, 1961–1963

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Cameron
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
National Security ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
Nuclear Strategy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Test Ban

Chapter 1 describes how John F. Kennedy rose to power by articulating his own new nuclear strategy, which would use the latest advances in social and organizational sciences, combined with US superiority in nuclear weapons, to defend the United States’ national security interests. The foremost exponent of this strategy of “rational superiority” was Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. The chapter then explains how this scheme was dealt a series of blows by Kennedy’s experiences during the Berlin and Cuban missile crises, which disabused him of the idea that nuclear superiority could be used to coerce the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, the Kennedy administration used the rhetoric of rational superiority to advance the Limited Test Ban Treaty and was planning to employ it as part of the president’s reelection campaign in 1964. Kennedy had not reconciled this gap between his public rhetoric and personal doubts at the time of his death.

“Moon-Struck Lunatics”

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-32
Author(s):  
Derek M Leininger
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
Congressional Debates ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
American Nationalism ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Events ◽  
The Impact

Historians have noted the wave of cultural and civil nationalism that swept the United States following the War of 1812. “Moon Struck Lunatics” positions American nationalism in the Era of Good Feelings within the broader context of global events. The article probes the impact of the Spanish-American Revolutions on early Americans’ consciousness as a nation. The revolutions contextualized for Americans the world historical significance of their own revolution and aided the articulation of an early manifest destiny ideology. This essay focuses on public rhetoric, including speeches, congressional debates, editorials, geographies, songs, poems, toasts, letters to the editor, and travel accounts.

scholarly journals “Challenging public rhetoric justifying immigrants as ‘indecent’”

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1740538
Author(s):  
Aaron Martin ◽  
Lisette LeMerise ◽  
Riya Chhabra ◽  
Sudharshana P. Kanduri ◽  
Julia Beleshi
Keyword(s):  
Public Rhetoric

Private and Public Rhetoric in the Journal to Stella

1972 ◽  
Vol XXII (2) ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
A. B. ENGLAND
Keyword(s):  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
Private And Public

The Nature and Role of Ideology in the Modern Cambodian State

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Slocomb
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
Current Regime ◽  
The Past

After regaining independence from France in 1953, Cambodia was ruled by successive regimes according to specific ideologies which were presented as charters for constructing a modern state. For the past 20 years, however, Cambodian politics has been dominated by the seemingly non-ideological Prime Minister Hun Sen. In his public rhetoric and the stated goals of the current regime, it may be possible to identify if not ideology, then ideas about how the Cambodian people are to be governed in a post-ideological era.

“I am the Law!”—Perspectives of Legality and Illegality in the Israeli Army

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Zagor
Keyword(s):  
Israeli Society ◽  
Military Establishment ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
Daily Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Middle East Conflict ◽  
Israeli Army ◽  
The Military

The language of morality and legality infuses every aspect of the Middle East conflict. From repeated assertions by officials that Israel has “the most moral army in the world” to justifications for specific military tactics and operations by reference to self-defense and proportionality, the public rhetoric is one of legal right and moral obligation. Less often heard are the voices of those on the ground whose daily experience is lived within the legal quagmire portrayed by their leaders in such uncompromising terms. This Article explores the opaque normative boundaries surrounding the actions of a specific group within the Israeli military, soldiers returning from duty in Hebron in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. By examining interviews with these soldiers by an Israeli NGO, it identifies different narratives of legality and illegality which inform their conduct, contrasting their failure to adhere to conventional legal discourses with the broader “legalization” of military activities. Seeking an explanation for this disjunction, it explores the ways in which the soldiers' stories nonetheless reflect attempts to negotiate various normative and legal realities. It places these within the legal landscape of the Occupied Palestinian Territories which has been normatively re-imagined by various forces in Israeli society, from the judicially-endorsed discourse of deterrence manifested in the day-to-day practices of brutality, intimidation and “demonstrating power,” to the growing influence of nationalist-religious interpretations of self-defense and the misuse of post-modernist theory by the military establishment to “smooth out” the moral and legal urban architectures of occupation. The Article concludes by considering the hope for change evident in the very act of soldiers telling ethically-oriented stories about their selves, and in the existence of a movement willing to provide the space for such reflections in an attempt to confront Israeli society with the day-to-day experiences of the soldier in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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