Writing neoliberal values : rhetoric connectivities and globalised capitalism /: rhetoric connectivities and globalised capitalism. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rachel C. Riedner (Associate Professor of Writing and Women's Studies, George Washington University, USA).
• Authors: Riedner, Rachel, 1966-
• Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Writing Value in a Neoliberal World: Necropolitics and Affective Rhetoric; Neoliberal portraits; Neoliberal inclusion; Genre of human-interest story; Neoliberal nation-states; Value as rhetorical process; Writing beyond neoliberalism; Chapter summary; 2. Transnational Ghosts: Regimes of Friendship, Neoliberal Abandonment, and Discourses of Mourning; Death on campus; Discourses of mourning; Neoliberal governmentality; Thin mourning; Transnational abandonment; Older forms of capital; Transnational zones of anomie. Transnational affiliationsPostscript; 3. Lives of Infamous Women: Gender, Political Economy, Nation-State Power, and Persuasion in the Neoliberal World; Transnational feminism; Analysis of the neoliberal human-interest story; Gendered violence; Persuasion and power; Mapping negotiation; Transnational feminist literacy; 4. Writing Women's Capacities in Cape Town's Urban Gardens: Gendered Survival Practices and Transnational Feminist Literacies; Gendered reproductive labor; News reports and survival economies; Women and the state; Women and care culture; Gendered productive capacity. 5. From Spectacle to Crisis of Feeling: Slow Violence, Affective Rhetoric, and the Case of Caster SemenyaCulturalist readings: The scandal of Caster Semenya; Neoliberal incorporation; Transnational rhetorical literacies expanded; From spectacle to crisis; Coda; Afterword: Writing Neoliberal Values: Literacies of Necropolitical Violence; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 162 pages)
• Subjects: 330.12/2; Political science; Neoliberalism; Neoliberalism -- Social aspects; Globalization -- Economic aspects; Political sociology; Political economy; Ethnicity; Sociology; Political theory; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference; Globalization -- Economic aspects; Neoliberalism; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Political Science -- Economic Conditions; Social Science -- Ethnic Studies -- General; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Political Science -- History & Theory; Sociology; Political economy; Ethnic studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Political science & theory; Political Science -- General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137547774; 1137547774
• Related ISBNs: 9781349581252; 9781137547767; 1137547766
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157) and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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