Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness (review)

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-533
Author(s):  
Kristen McCauliff
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Listening

Teaching and Gaining a Voice: A Rhetorical Intersectionality Approach to Pedagogy of Feminist Organizational Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 089331892097269
Author(s):  
Tahirah J. Walker ◽  
Lizette A. Muñoz Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Rhetorical Listening ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Communication Programs

We propose a rhetorical intersectionality pedagogy to teach Buzzanell’s (1994) “Gaining a Voice.” Specifically, we advance Buzzanell’s vision by presenting a way to teach this article in an intersectional manner and open the dialogue to a wider range of students. This approach encompasses four needs: (a) unhiding the curriculum and the underlying structure of our academic settings, (b) asking learners and instructors to heed silence and silence breaking, (c) encouraging learners and instructors to embrace rhetorical listening, and (d) setting aside canon and convention to make way for parrhesia within our communication programs. Our contribution foregrounds pedagogy as a vital aspect of higher education’s impact on contemporary and future feminist organizational communication issues.

Rhetorical Listening

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-77
Author(s):  
Debian Marty
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Listening

Distributed Feminist Rhetorical Agency after a Rape Accusation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Hensley Owens
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Rhetorical Agency ◽  
Rhetorical Listening

This article examines the rhetorical effects of a rape accusation on the survivor and on the survivor’s community of social justice activists. Relying on interviews with the survivor and with the community affected by the allegation, the article analyzes responses to the allegation, articulates how those responses are informed by rape culture, and illustrates how those responses affected the survivor and her rhetorical agency. The article argues that rhetorical agency can be productively distributed across various allies to assist survivors and help restore the rhetorical agency that rape erodes. Establishing sexual assault as a public health issue, the article recommends broad education in rhetorical listening to improve how those entrusted to hear assault stories listen, respond, and, when appropriate, help survivors speak or act.

An Ethics-of-Care Paradigm in Opposition Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sommer Sterud
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Rhetorical Listening ◽  
Pro Life

This paper explores how I navigated the complicated terrain of opposition research during the dissertation phase of my doctoral program. Drawing from ethnographic research conducted on a pro-life organization, I illustrate that care-based ethics (Held, 2006; Tronto, 1994) is not just for vulnerable and agreeable participants but is valuable and appropriate for researching powerful groups whom we oppose. Furthermore, I argue that rhetorical listening (Glenn & Ratcliffe, 2011; Ratcliffe, 1999, Ratcliffe, 2005) is not just a valuable methodological approach to research, but also a form of reciprocity, especially critical when studying groups we oppose. Such an approach promotes the mutually beneficial goals of respect and understanding. 

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