Michelle A Holling
Biographic Data
| ID | 5595802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle A Holling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle A |
| FAMILY NAME | Holling |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLING M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, San Marcos |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0014-9812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Making friends, making coalition
In this essay, we study the rhetorical processes involved in creating and sustaining the place-based grassroots community coalition Friends of Friendship Park that advocates for Friendship Park, a historically significant site on the westernmost edge of the U.S.-Mexico border. Based on our rhetorical fieldwork, we propose the rhetorical concepts of coalitional endurance and nested exigencies. We adopt a rhetorical ecological approach to examine h…
In 2020
To examine events leading up to and occurring in 2020, we adopt vision, along with refractive diseases and disorders, as a metaphorical framework. Heuristically, a vision metaphor enables us to make sense of and assess acute events that marked the election season through obstructions that impinge on vision. We identify competing visions of America/Amerikkka, which facilitate explicating the nation’s vision and national vision
Patrolling National Identity, Masking White Supremacy
White supremacy in heels”
As a progressive intervention into patriarchy, feminism has traditionally centered (white) women's experience, yet when sex and gender are combined with race, feminism tends to lose its progressive edge. We argue that (white) feminism ideologically grounds itself in a gendered victimology that masks its participation and functionality in white supremacy. By erasing women of color, positioning women as victims of white male hegemony, and failing t…
A Politic of Disruption
Attention to the absences in the development of the field [of intercultural communication] can be disruptive. (Nakayama & Martin, 2007, p. 113)We must examine and attend to the specifics of race, a
Continuing a Politic of Disruption
In the brief period since we wrote the introduction to the first special issue, we lament the deaths of more young Black men at the hands of law enforcement in the U.S.; the shootings of two police
“So My Name Is Alma, and I Am the Sister of … ”
This essay draws on original qualitative research about feminicides in Ciudad Juárez to examine a transcribed and translated testimonio. Delivered by a sister of a victim of the feminicides, this testimonio bears witness by orally narrating instances of individual and collective violence committed against Mexicanas. The sister's testimonio stages violence in order for listeners to identify with (and take up a position against) acts of violence. A…
Racist Violations and Racializing Apologia in a Post-Racism Era
In theorizing the dialectic of public acts of white racial offenses and the in/sufficiency of apologia associated with white racial discourse, we examine racist violations and racializing apologia from 24 white public figures in the United States between 1996 and 2012. Analysis of racist violations reveals that each offense undermines race as a social and political marker, whereas racializing apologia makes explicit the constant force of racializ…
Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces
Taking up the charge to study discourses of marginalized groups, while simultaneously extending scholarship about Latina/os in the field of Communication, Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? provides the most current work examining the vernacular voices of Latina/os. The editors of this diverse collection structure the book along four topics_Locating Foundations, Citizenship and Belonging, The Politics of Self-Representatio…
Forming Oppositional Social Concord to California's Proposition 187 and Squelching Social Discord in the Vernacular Space of CHICLE
I examine the vernacular discourse of the CHICLE listserv, an academic site of inquiry that shifted its focus to operate as a site of opposition following California voters’ passage of Proposition 187, which aimed to restrict state services to undocumented immigrants. I identify the micro-level processes involved in forming a stance of opposition and reveal that a vernacular community's discourse tends to mirror the hegemonic characteristics of t…
Identities on Stage and Staging Identities
We examine Chicano on the Storm, performed in 1991 by Richard Montoya of the theater group Culture Clash Culture, Clash. 1998. Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy, New York: Theatre Communications Group. [Google Scholar], and Border Brujo, performed in 1990 by Guillermo Gómez-Peña to explore the ways that the performances stage identities. We contend that the performances advance commentaries about the cultural milieu shaping Chicana/o identitie…
Negotiating Our Way Through the Gates of Academe
This article operates from an understanding of diversity as an ontological and moral phenomenon. As such, diversity evolves between people rather than something that is possessed. It can therefore be best achieved through dislocation and evolution. Toward that objective, aspects of the intellectual and pedagogical status quo that depoliticizes diversity are discussed via "the dominant model of scholarship." In response, three suggestions are offe…
White supremacy in heels”
As a progressive intervention into patriarchy, feminism has traditionally centered (white) women's experience, yet when sex and gender are combined with race, feminism tends to lose its progressive edge. We argue that (white) feminism ideologically grounds itself in a gendered victimology that masks its participation and functionality in white supremacy. By erasing women of color, positioning women as victims of white male hegemony, and failing t…
Racist Violations and Racializing Apologia in a Post-Racism Era
In theorizing the dialectic of public acts of white racial offenses and the in/sufficiency of apologia associated with white racial discourse, we examine racist violations and racializing apologia from 24 white public figures in the United States between 1996 and 2012. Analysis of racist violations reveals that each offense undermines race as a social and political marker, whereas racializing apologia makes explicit the constant force of racializ…
Forming Oppositional Social Concord to California's Proposition 187 and Squelching Social Discord in the Vernacular Space of CHICLE
I examine the vernacular discourse of the CHICLE listserv, an academic site of inquiry that shifted its focus to operate as a site of opposition following California voters’ passage of Proposition 187, which aimed to restrict state services to undocumented immigrants. I identify the micro-level processes involved in forming a stance of opposition and reveal that a vernacular community's discourse tends to mirror the hegemonic characteristics of t…
Identities on Stage and Staging Identities
We examine Chicano on the Storm, performed in 1991 by Richard Montoya of the theater group Culture Clash Culture, Clash. 1998. Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy, New York: Theatre Communications Group. [Google Scholar], and Border Brujo, performed in 1990 by Guillermo Gómez-Peña to explore the ways that the performances stage identities. We contend that the performances advance commentaries about the cultural milieu shaping Chicana/o identitie…
A Politic of Disruption
Attention to the absences in the development of the field [of intercultural communication] can be disruptive. (Nakayama & Martin, 2007, p. 113)We must examine and attend to the specifics of race, a
Negotiating Our Way Through the Gates of Academe
This article operates from an understanding of diversity as an ontological and moral phenomenon. As such, diversity evolves between people rather than something that is possessed. It can therefore be best achieved through dislocation and evolution. Toward that objective, aspects of the intellectual and pedagogical status quo that depoliticizes diversity are discussed via "the dominant model of scholarship." In response, three suggestions are offe…
Continuing a Politic of Disruption
In the brief period since we wrote the introduction to the first special issue, we lament the deaths of more young Black men at the hands of law enforcement in the U.S.; the shootings of two police
Negotiating Our Way Through the Gates of Academe
This article operates from an understanding of diversity as an ontological and moral phenomenon. As such, diversity evolves between people rather than something that is possessed. It can therefore be best achieved through dislocation and evolution. Toward that objective, aspects of the intellectual and pedagogical status quo that depoliticizes diversity are discussed via "the dominant model of scholarship." In response, three suggestions are offe…
Forming Oppositional Social Concord to California's Proposition 187 and Squelching Social Discord in the Vernacular Space of CHICLE
I examine the vernacular discourse of the CHICLE listserv, an academic site of inquiry that shifted its focus to operate as a site of opposition following California voters’ passage of Proposition 187, which aimed to restrict state services to undocumented immigrants. I identify the micro-level processes involved in forming a stance of opposition and reveal that a vernacular community's discourse tends to mirror the hegemonic characteristics of t…
Identities on Stage and Staging Identities
We examine Chicano on the Storm, performed in 1991 by Richard Montoya of the theater group Culture Clash Culture, Clash. 1998. Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy, New York: Theatre Communications Group. [Google Scholar], and Border Brujo, performed in 1990 by Guillermo Gómez-Peña to explore the ways that the performances stage identities. We contend that the performances advance commentaries about the cultural milieu shaping Chicana/o identitie…
Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces
Taking up the charge to study discourses of marginalized groups, while simultaneously extending scholarship about Latina/os in the field of Communication, Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? provides the most current work examining the vernacular voices of Latina/os. The editors of this diverse collection structure the book along four topics_Locating Foundations, Citizenship and Belonging, The Politics of Self-Representatio…
“So My Name Is Alma, and I Am the Sister of … ”
This essay draws on original qualitative research about feminicides in Ciudad Juárez to examine a transcribed and translated testimonio. Delivered by a sister of a victim of the feminicides, this testimonio bears witness by orally narrating instances of individual and collective violence committed against Mexicanas. The sister's testimonio stages violence in order for listeners to identify with (and take up a position against) acts of violence. A…
Racist Violations and Racializing Apologia in a Post-Racism Era
In theorizing the dialectic of public acts of white racial offenses and the in/sufficiency of apologia associated with white racial discourse, we examine racist violations and racializing apologia from 24 white public figures in the United States between 1996 and 2012. Analysis of racist violations reveals that each offense undermines race as a social and political marker, whereas racializing apologia makes explicit the constant force of racializ…
A Politic of Disruption
Attention to the absences in the development of the field [of intercultural communication] can be disruptive. (Nakayama & Martin, 2007, p. 113)We must examine and attend to the specifics of race, a
Continuing a Politic of Disruption
In the brief period since we wrote the introduction to the first special issue, we lament the deaths of more young Black men at the hands of law enforcement in the U.S.; the shootings of two police
Patrolling National Identity, Masking White Supremacy
White supremacy in heels”
As a progressive intervention into patriarchy, feminism has traditionally centered (white) women's experience, yet when sex and gender are combined with race, feminism tends to lose its progressive edge. We argue that (white) feminism ideologically grounds itself in a gendered victimology that masks its participation and functionality in white supremacy. By erasing women of color, positioning women as victims of white male hegemony, and failing t…
In 2020
To examine events leading up to and occurring in 2020, we adopt vision, along with refractive diseases and disorders, as a metaphorical framework. Heuristically, a vision metaphor enables us to make sense of and assess acute events that marked the election season through obstructions that impinge on vision. We identify competing visions of America/Amerikkka, which facilitate explicating the nation’s vision and national vision
Making friends, making coalition
In this essay, we study the rhetorical processes involved in creating and sustaining the place-based grassroots community coalition Friends of Friendship Park that advocates for Friendship Park, a historically significant site on the westernmost edge of the U.S.-Mexico border. Based on our rhetorical fieldwork, we propose the rhetorical concepts of coalitional endurance and nested exigencies. We adopt a rhetorical ecological approach to examine h…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works)