Quiet Defiance

Introduction
David W. Seitz

Part I: Silence, Presence, and Absence

Chapter 1: Speaking in Silence: Rhetoric, Rancière, and the Blank Sign Protests of 2022
Michael Vicaro

Chapter 2: Vigils for Peace: Silent Presence as Political Action
D. Graham Burnett

Chapter 3: Embodying Absence: Silence and Death at ACT UP's 1992 Ashes Action
Jeffrey B. Nagel

Chapter 4: Silence as Political Engagement: Student-Led Silent Protests Advocating for LGBTQ+ Youth
Kevin R. Meyer and Stephen K. Hunt

Chapter 5: The Rhetoric of Silence as Embodiment: Georgia Prisoners' 2010 "Lockdown for Liberty"
Nick J. Sciullo

Part II: On Colin Kaepernick

Chapter 6: Embodying Resistance: Situating Kaepernick's Performative Symbolic Resistance as an Emic Perspective
Alicia K. Hatcher

Chapter 7: The Silence and the Fury: Colin Kaepernick, Athletic Protest, and Noisy Affects
Dafna Kaufman and Jaclyn Olson

Chapter 8: "I Just Couldn't Be a Sellout": Understanding Rihanna's Absence during the 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show through Speech Acts Theory
Julia C. Richmond

Part III: In Defense of Women's Rights

Chapter 9: Silence and Commercial Sex Work: Performing Silence as Strategy, Resistance, and the Articulation of Alternative Perspectives
Satarupa Dasgupta

Chapter 10: Under Their Eyes: The Visuality of Handmaids as Resistance in Transnational Women's Rights Protests
Annie Hui

Chapter 11: The Woman, Life, Freedom Movement: Social Media Videos of Women Cutting Hair and
Burning Hijabs and the Rhetoric of Silent Protest
Nune Grigoryan

Chapter 12: Red Card Qatar: Human Rights Protests at World Cup 2022
Megan O'Byrne

Part IV: Silent Protest and the Digital Landscape

Chapter 13: From Protest to Solidarity: How the Digital Era is Changing the Volume of Silence
Jessica L. Neu

Chapter 14: "Don't Mistake My Silence as Not Caring:" Discourses of Nonvoters on Twitter
Alison N. Novak

Chapter 15: Silent Protests in and for the AttentionSphere: A Rhetorical Methodology for Studying Attention
David Landes

Chapter 16: Silent Protest and Cruel Imitation in Hong Kong's "Umbrella Movement"
Dominic J. Manthey and Keren Wang

Index

About the Contributors