The wound's future. Issue 1 (March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rice, Jenny
• Other Names: Conley Donovan guest-editor.; Burroughs Benjamin guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Communication and the public. Volume 5:Issue 1/2(2020)
• Page Start: 7
• Page End: 15
• Publication Date: 2020-03
• Subjects: Deliberation -- description -- public discourse -- rhetoric; Communication -- Periodicals; Communication -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 302.2
• DOI: 10.1177/2057047320951648
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2057-0473

Abstract

While we so commonly frame our public/civic wounds as past (or passed), we are used to talking about healing and mending existing wounds. This language also affects how we conduct deliberative discourse around current crises. However, I am more curious about the wound's future. Specifically, I want to explore the wound's future as it emerges in two different types of deliberation: prescriptive deliberation and descriptive deliberation. Rather than seeing the wound (only) as something that has already happened, or even as something that lingers on into the present, I want to address the wound's future: a tactical future-oriented rhetoric that creates a broader deliberative practice.