Part 1: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations.- Chapter 1: Introduction - Epistemic governance meets membership categorization.- Chapter 2: Conceptualizing evaluative identifications in politics - The rhetorical effects of organizing actors into morally persuasive interrelational scenes.- Part 2: Policy-Making & Governance: Combating External Threats in National Policy-Making.- Chapter 3: Intro: Scaffolding arguments for institutional legitimacy and trust - Moral casting in justifications by governing politicians.- Chapter 4: Regulating Moral Alibis to Safeguard Political Responsibility: The Case of the Troika's Intervention in Portugal.- Chapter 5: History and continuity in political rhetoric: Articulating actor categorisations in Russian Foreign Agent Legislation.- Part 3: News Media: Addressing Us Through Attributing A Third In National News.- Chapter 6: Intro: Staging public opinion formation and collective identifications - Moral casting and societization in journalistic news texts.- Chapter 7: Victim or traitor? Domesticating "Alexei Navalny" in Finnish, German and Russian news reporting.- Chapter 8: The moral effects of framing Eurovision news on Israel - Netta Barzilai, a good agent who brought victory to a reprehensible country.- Part 4: Civic Activism- Mobilizing Action Online to Change Gender Relations.- Chapter 9: Intro: Agitating political agency through relational constellations - Moral casting and mobilization of citizens in online videos.- Chapter 10: "Are you furious because of African cannibals infesting Europe?" - A case of rhetorical failure in Hungarian far-right activism.- Chapter 11: Validating testimonial knowledge - Category work in activism against gender-based violence in melodramatic visual production.- Part 5: Closing.- Chapter 12: Identifications, membership categorization, and epistemic governance: an epilogue.
