Stephen M Underhill
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen M Underhill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Underhill |
| SIGNATURE | UNDERHILL S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marshall University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Prisoner of Context
In this project, I argue that J. Edgar Hoover’s style of political realism should be studied by critics because it long preceded that of President Harry S. Truman. The style belonged to a stockpile of anti-Communist imagery that helped to shape how the Truman Doctrine speech was drafted and how audiences interpreted its meanings in more local domestic politics. When Truman finally announced that the Soviet Union had challenged international proto…
Urban jungle, Ferguson
In this article, I use the rhetorical homology of the urban jungle to conduct an institutional critique of law enforcement in Ferguson, MO, after Michael Brown was killed. Rhetorical homologies and institutions intersect where language and practice coalesce, which is to say where group consciousness takes material forms. I investigate how, in news coverage of Ferguson, a common form was present across verbal devices and nonverbal practices at mac…
The Crisis in South Africa
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The Crisis in South Africa
Urban jungle, Ferguson
In this article, I use the rhetorical homology of the urban jungle to conduct an institutional critique of law enforcement in Ferguson, MO, after Michael Brown was killed. Rhetorical homologies and institutions intersect where language and practice coalesce, which is to say where group consciousness takes material forms. I investigate how, in news coverage of Ferguson, a common form was present across verbal devices and nonverbal practices at mac…
Prisoner of Context
In this project, I argue that J. Edgar Hoover’s style of political realism should be studied by critics because it long preceded that of President Harry S. Truman. The style belonged to a stockpile of anti-Communist imagery that helped to shape how the Truman Doctrine speech was drafted and how audiences interpreted its meanings in more local domestic politics. When Truman finally announced that the Soviet Union had challenged international proto…
Political science (2 works) · Rhetorical question (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Political and Social Dynamics (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Communism (1 work) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (1 work)