1st Edition

Into the Gateway Project on Power, Place and Publics

Edited By Catherine Chaput, Amy Pason Copyright 2022
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

This book advances the trend toward field methods in rhetorical scholarship by collecting distinct chapters based on the same object of study – the University of Nevada, Reno’s Masterplan that extends the University into the adjacent community. Exploring the perennial problem of university-community relations from the perspective of multiple publics, this book provides thick description of a... Read more

1. Enacting rhetorical field methods in a place-based project

Catherine Chaput, Lynda Olman and Amy Pason

2. The unbuilt city of Reno

John M. Ackerman

3. “No(t) camping”: engaging intersections of housing, transportation, and environmental justice through critical praxis

Bridie McGreavy, Scott Kelley, Jason Ludden, Daniel Card, Elisa Cogbill-Seiders, Ian Derk, Constance Gordon, Kaitlyn Haynal, Kassia Krzus-Shaw, Melissa M. Parks, Ashleigh Petts, Derek G. Ross and Kenneth Walker

4. Community-engaged rhetoric

David Coogan

5. Unearthing deep roots: tapping rhetoric’s generative power to improve community and urban development projects

Derek G. Handley, Victoria Gallagher, Danielle DeVasto, Mridula Mascarenhas and Rhana A. Gittens

6. Precarious economies: capitalism’s creative destruction in the age of neoliberal campus planning

Phillip Goodwin, Rubén Casas, Ralph Cintrón, Joshua Stanley Hanan, Leslie L. Rossman and Nick J. Sciullo

7. The biggest little ways toward access: thinking with disability in site-specific rhetorical work

Amy Vidali

8. (Re)designing Innovation Alley: fostering civic living and learning through visual rhetoric and urban design

Laurie Gries, Blake Watson, Jason P. Kalin, Jaqui Pratt and Desiree Dighton

9. Rhetorical cartographic story maps as public work

Jennifer A. Malkowski and Christina M. Klenke

10. Afterword – Engaging the university as institutional public actor: employing field methods to map market publicity in a networked public sphere

Robert Asen

Biography

Catherine Chaput is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Her research focuses on the intersecting relations among rhetoric, political economy, and affect. She has written two monographs, edited a collection, and guest edited four journal issues. In addition, she has published dozens of articles and book chapters.

Amy Pason is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Her research focuses on social movement and counterpublics rhetoric, First Amendment issues related to protest, and academic labor. She is co-editor of What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics.