Joshua P Ewalt
Biographic Data
| ID | 259166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua P Ewalt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua P |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewalt |
| SIGNATURE | EWALT J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8990-8602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Oscillating scale and articulating regions: Power geometries and multi-scalar publics in People’s Tribune’s coverage of Benton Harbor, Michigan
This essay explores the mapping of power geometries as public rhetoric within People’s Tribune’s coverage of Benton Harbor, Michigan. In doing so, the essay demonstrates three techniques for mapping power geometries: that they (a) oscillate between spatial scales, thereby managing a tension between framing place as unique and common to a broader geography; (b) articulate regions so as to locate the power dynamics of the nation; and (c) connect th…
Visibility and order at the Salt Lake City Main Public Library: Commonplaces, deviant publics, and the rhetorical criticism of neoliberalism’s geographies
I analyze the Salt Lake City Main Public Library (SLCMPL) through archival work, textual analysis, and field methods. Through attention to the site’s mechanisms of emergence, its relationship to the city’s Public Safety Building, and movements through the building in the present, I argue the SLCMPL materializes a neoliberal orientation to commonplaces through a dual emphasis on order and visibility. The building’s design and meanings invite heter…
New Materialities and Precarious Mobilities: Reinventing Studies of Space and Place
Communication scholarship on gender, sexuality, and space has expanded in recent years, bringing attention to new places, theories, and methods of analysis. Much of this work engages interdisciplin
Cultivating consubstantiality with the land institute: Organizational rhetoric and the role of place-making in generating organizational identification
This essay examines the organizational rhetoric of the Land Institute in order to address the ways place-making contributes to the inducement of organizational identification (OI). In addition to defining place-making as a practice of cultivating arrangements, the essay unpacks two ways in which a strategically arranged place facilitates OI: (a) materializing the places and times imagined in textual materials, and (b) generating encounters with O…
Points of Difference in the Study of More-than-Human Rhetorical Ontologies
Book Review| September 01 2018 Points of Difference in the Study of More-than-Human Rhetorical Ontologies How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human. By Eduardo Kohn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013; pp. viii + 267. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics. Edited by Diana Coole and Samantha Frost. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010; pp. i + 336. $104.95 cloth; $27.95 paper.Rh…
The Agency of the Spatial
Is feminist theory best served through its traditional focus on women’s attainment of a freedom from patriarchal, racist, colonialist, and heteronormative constraint? Or by exploring what the femal
We are still in the desert’: Diaspora and the (de)territorialization of identity in discursive representations of the US soldier
This paper examines the territorial organization of the US military through the lens of diaspora studies in order to explore how the dynamism of identity is implicated by the constant movement between divergent social and material territories. We contend that military identity is subjected to diasporic intersections, which are moments where identity is tethered to multiple geographies simultaneously. Through an analysis of widely circulated Weste…
A Matter of Regionalism: Remembering Brandon Teena and Willa Cather at the Nebraska History Museum
In 2010-2011, the Nebraska History Museum featured two temporary exhibits: "We the People: the Nebraskan Viewpoint" and "Willa Cather: A Matter of Appearances." We argue the public memories of Brandon Teena and Willa Cather contained in the exhibits are distanced from regional politics when articulated alongside the nostalgic regionalist rhetoric of the Nebraska History Museum. Specifically, both exhibits not only discipline the memory of trans* …
Activism, Deliberation, and Networked Public Screens: Rhetorical Scenes From the Occupy Moment in Lincoln, Nebraska (Part 1)
Part 1 of this manuscript is a dramatization of five rhetorical scenes that take the Occupy phenomenon as a moment to explore features of contemporary social protest and change. Drawing on rhetorical field notes collected over the first two weeks of Occupy Lincoln in Nebraska, we identify how historical tensions between activism and deliberation were both complicated and reasserted as the Occupy moment became a movement. The rhetorical scenes par…
The Agency of the Spatial
Is feminist theory best served through its traditional focus on women’s attainment of a freedom from patriarchal, racist, colonialist, and heteronormative constraint? Or by exploring what the femal
A Matter of Regionalism: Remembering Brandon Teena and Willa Cather at the Nebraska History Museum
In 2010-2011, the Nebraska History Museum featured two temporary exhibits: "We the People: the Nebraskan Viewpoint" and "Willa Cather: A Matter of Appearances." We argue the public memories of Brandon Teena and Willa Cather contained in the exhibits are distanced from regional politics when articulated alongside the nostalgic regionalist rhetoric of the Nebraska History Museum. Specifically, both exhibits not only discipline the memory of trans* …
New Materialities and Precarious Mobilities: Reinventing Studies of Space and Place
Communication scholarship on gender, sexuality, and space has expanded in recent years, bringing attention to new places, theories, and methods of analysis. Much of this work engages interdisciplin
Activism, Deliberation, and Networked Public Screens: Rhetorical Scenes From the Occupy Moment in Lincoln, Nebraska (Part 1)
Part 1 of this manuscript is a dramatization of five rhetorical scenes that take the Occupy phenomenon as a moment to explore features of contemporary social protest and change. Drawing on rhetorical field notes collected over the first two weeks of Occupy Lincoln in Nebraska, we identify how historical tensions between activism and deliberation were both complicated and reasserted as the Occupy moment became a movement. The rhetorical scenes par…
Visibility and order at the Salt Lake City Main Public Library: Commonplaces, deviant publics, and the rhetorical criticism of neoliberalism’s geographies
I analyze the Salt Lake City Main Public Library (SLCMPL) through archival work, textual analysis, and field methods. Through attention to the site’s mechanisms of emergence, its relationship to the city’s Public Safety Building, and movements through the building in the present, I argue the SLCMPL materializes a neoliberal orientation to commonplaces through a dual emphasis on order and visibility. The building’s design and meanings invite heter…
Cultivating consubstantiality with the land institute: Organizational rhetoric and the role of place-making in generating organizational identification
This essay examines the organizational rhetoric of the Land Institute in order to address the ways place-making contributes to the inducement of organizational identification (OI). In addition to defining place-making as a practice of cultivating arrangements, the essay unpacks two ways in which a strategically arranged place facilitates OI: (a) materializing the places and times imagined in textual materials, and (b) generating encounters with O…
We are still in the desert’: Diaspora and the (de)territorialization of identity in discursive representations of the US soldier
This paper examines the territorial organization of the US military through the lens of diaspora studies in order to explore how the dynamism of identity is implicated by the constant movement between divergent social and material territories. We contend that military identity is subjected to diasporic intersections, which are moments where identity is tethered to multiple geographies simultaneously. Through an analysis of widely circulated Weste…
We are still in the desert’: Diaspora and the (de)territorialization of identity in discursive representations of the US soldier
This paper examines the territorial organization of the US military through the lens of diaspora studies in order to explore how the dynamism of identity is implicated by the constant movement between divergent social and material territories. We contend that military identity is subjected to diasporic intersections, which are moments where identity is tethered to multiple geographies simultaneously. Through an analysis of widely circulated Weste…
A Matter of Regionalism: Remembering Brandon Teena and Willa Cather at the Nebraska History Museum
In 2010-2011, the Nebraska History Museum featured two temporary exhibits: "We the People: the Nebraskan Viewpoint" and "Willa Cather: A Matter of Appearances." We argue the public memories of Brandon Teena and Willa Cather contained in the exhibits are distanced from regional politics when articulated alongside the nostalgic regionalist rhetoric of the Nebraska History Museum. Specifically, both exhibits not only discipline the memory of trans* …
Activism, Deliberation, and Networked Public Screens: Rhetorical Scenes From the Occupy Moment in Lincoln, Nebraska (Part 1)
Part 1 of this manuscript is a dramatization of five rhetorical scenes that take the Occupy phenomenon as a moment to explore features of contemporary social protest and change. Drawing on rhetorical field notes collected over the first two weeks of Occupy Lincoln in Nebraska, we identify how historical tensions between activism and deliberation were both complicated and reasserted as the Occupy moment became a movement. The rhetorical scenes par…
The Agency of the Spatial
Is feminist theory best served through its traditional focus on women’s attainment of a freedom from patriarchal, racist, colonialist, and heteronormative constraint? Or by exploring what the femal
New Materialities and Precarious Mobilities: Reinventing Studies of Space and Place
Communication scholarship on gender, sexuality, and space has expanded in recent years, bringing attention to new places, theories, and methods of analysis. Much of this work engages interdisciplin
Cultivating consubstantiality with the land institute: Organizational rhetoric and the role of place-making in generating organizational identification
This essay examines the organizational rhetoric of the Land Institute in order to address the ways place-making contributes to the inducement of organizational identification (OI). In addition to defining place-making as a practice of cultivating arrangements, the essay unpacks two ways in which a strategically arranged place facilitates OI: (a) materializing the places and times imagined in textual materials, and (b) generating encounters with O…
Points of Difference in the Study of More-than-Human Rhetorical Ontologies
Book Review| September 01 2018 Points of Difference in the Study of More-than-Human Rhetorical Ontologies How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human. By Eduardo Kohn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013; pp. viii + 267. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics. Edited by Diana Coole and Samantha Frost. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010; pp. i + 336. $104.95 cloth; $27.95 paper.Rh…
Visibility and order at the Salt Lake City Main Public Library: Commonplaces, deviant publics, and the rhetorical criticism of neoliberalism’s geographies
I analyze the Salt Lake City Main Public Library (SLCMPL) through archival work, textual analysis, and field methods. Through attention to the site’s mechanisms of emergence, its relationship to the city’s Public Safety Building, and movements through the building in the present, I argue the SLCMPL materializes a neoliberal orientation to commonplaces through a dual emphasis on order and visibility. The building’s design and meanings invite heter…
Oscillating scale and articulating regions: Power geometries and multi-scalar publics in People’s Tribune’s coverage of Benton Harbor, Michigan
This essay explores the mapping of power geometries as public rhetoric within People’s Tribune’s coverage of Benton Harbor, Michigan. In doing so, the essay demonstrates three techniques for mapping power geometries: that they (a) oscillate between spatial scales, thereby managing a tension between framing place as unique and common to a broader geography; (b) articulate regions so as to locate the power dynamics of the nation; and (c) connect th…
Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Rhetoric (3 works)