Doing Rhetorical StudiesIn Situ

In this essay, I explore the ways that doing rhetoric in situ can reveal sets of decolonizing practices within interdisciplinary rhetorical studies. I discuss the idea of rhetoric in situ and its possibility for establishing sets of decolonizing practices in rhetorical studies drawing from fieldwork methods found in disciplines including anthropology. I advance a call for a more literal interpretation of in situ as one way of demonstrating the ways that historians and critics of rhetoric contribute to the conceptual world of publics to co-create imagined rhetorical possibilities with displaced persons. By way of demonstrating the methodological approach I'm advancing in this essay, I turn to a set of discourses born from my own fieldwork, completed on the northern border of Jordan in 2014, amidst the Syrian refugee crisis. In analyzing discourse from two refugee families living in the Mafraq Governorate of Jordan after escaping the violence of the Syrian conflict, I offer the concept of the "nomad citizen" as one way to expand understandings of citizenship in rhetorical studies to be more responsive to crises of transnational migration born out of colonialism

Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

• Semicolonial Rhetoric; or, A Rhetorical Sphere of Influence

  Maryam Ahmadi•Journal for the History of Rhetoric•2023

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• Phantom Mobility

  Josie Portz•Journal for the History of Rhetoric•2023

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• Slithering toward Social Change

  Meg Itoh•Journal for the History of Rhetoric•2023

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• The decolonial imaginary

  Emma Pérez•The decolonial imaginary•1999

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• Gender studies and communication

  Lana F Rakow•Critical Studies in Mass…•1989

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• Delinking Rhetoric, or Revisiting McGee’s Fragmentation Thesis through Decoloniality

  Darrel Allan Wanzer, Darrel Wanzer-Serrano•Rhetoric and Public Affairs•2012

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• Participatory Critical Rhetoric

  Will Penman•Quarterly Journal of Speech•2017

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• A discourse theory of citizenship

  Robert Asen•Quarterly Journal of Speech•2004

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• Rethinking ethnography

  Dwight Conquergood•Communication Monographs•1991

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• A thousand plateaus

  Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze•A thousand plateaus•1987

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• Culture and Imperialism

  Andrew J Pierre, Edward Said et al.•Foreign Affairs•1993

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• Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco

  Paul Rabinow•Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco•2016

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