Dissent, Discourse, and Democracy
Whistleblowers as Sites of Political Contestation
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2021
220 pages
978-1-9787-9987-5 (ISBN)
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Awarded the 2022 James Madison Prize for Outstanding Research in First Amendment Studies by the Southern States Communication Association (SSCA)
Government whistleblowers contest authoritarian power. Yet, critical scholars have only minimally examined whistleblower discourses and hesitate to substantively interrogate the ideology of statism.
In Dissent, Discourse, and Democracy: Whistleblowers as Sites of Political Contestation, Joshua Guitar addresses this exigency and critiques government whistleblowing discourses through an Anarchist lens, reifying a pattern of discursive statist behaviors. Upon exposing government malfeasance, whistleblowers and their corresponding symbolic designations endure an erasure of agency via abstraction.
Guitar conceptualizes the totality of abstruction, identifying it both as a rhetorical manifestation of ideology and a method of critical rhetorical inquiry. The author reveals how whistleblowing, a quintessential tool of dissent within democracy, has been systematically constrained within the public forum and weaponized for statist interests. Scholars of political communication and rhetoric will find this book particularly interesting.
Government whistleblowers contest authoritarian power. Yet, critical scholars have only minimally examined whistleblower discourses and hesitate to substantively interrogate the ideology of statism.
In Dissent, Discourse, and Democracy: Whistleblowers as Sites of Political Contestation, Joshua Guitar addresses this exigency and critiques government whistleblowing discourses through an Anarchist lens, reifying a pattern of discursive statist behaviors. Upon exposing government malfeasance, whistleblowers and their corresponding symbolic designations endure an erasure of agency via abstraction.
Guitar conceptualizes the totality of abstruction, identifying it both as a rhetorical manifestation of ideology and a method of critical rhetorical inquiry. The author reveals how whistleblowing, a quintessential tool of dissent within democracy, has been systematically constrained within the public forum and weaponized for statist interests. Scholars of political communication and rhetoric will find this book particularly interesting.
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Joshua Guitar is assistant professor of communication at Young Harris College, Georgia.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Theory
Chapter 3: Abstruction
Chapter 4: Revolutionary Era
Chapter 5: Early Nation
Chapter 6: Vietnam Era
Chapter 7: Millennium Turn
Chapter 8: Post 9/11 Part I
Chapter 9: Post 9/11 Part II
Chapter 10: 2020
Chapter 11: Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Theory
Chapter 3: Abstruction
Chapter 4: Revolutionary Era
Chapter 5: Early Nation
Chapter 6: Vietnam Era
Chapter 7: Millennium Turn
Chapter 8: Post 9/11 Part I
Chapter 9: Post 9/11 Part II
Chapter 10: 2020
Chapter 11: Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
