In the Wake of Violence : Image & Social Reform.

How acts of violence are rhetorically ""managed"" by social movements: In the Wake of Violence explores the immediate and longer term aftermath of violence committed by independent radicals involved in single-issue movements. Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp explores several specific inc...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Jorgensen-Earp, Cheryl R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, 2008.
Series:Rhetoric & Public Affairs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; RHETORIC AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS SERIES; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1
  • Divided Councils; Escalation to Violence; The Path to Violence; Styles of Activism; Denial and Distancing; Irreconcilable Differences; The Pain of Parting; To Criticize or Not; Critiquing the Critical; Bunker Mentality; 2
  • Tarred with the Same Brush; Mistaken Identity; Claims of Defeasibility; Conspiracy; Collusion; Incitement; Freedom of Speech; 3
  • The Lunatic Fringe; The Question of the Perpetrator; Size Matters; The Politics of Insanity.
  • The Manchurian ReformerFanatics, Hysterics, and Evildoers; 4
  • The Gospel of Despair; Our Greatest Enemy; The Thorn in the Flesh; Media Conspiracy; Distorting the Plot; Backlash; Handing the Opposition a Weapon; 5
  • The Squeaky Wheel; Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence; Can't Make an Omelet; Into the Laps of Moderates; Motive Metaphors; A Higher Law; 6
  • Responsibility; Last Resort; The Triumvirate of Responsibility; PROVOCATION; OPPRESSION; 7
  • Touchstones; The Perfect Martyr; Justified by History; The New Holocaust; Remove the Cause; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.