Marilyn DeLaure
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marilyn DeLaure |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marilyn |
| FAMILY NAME | DeLaure |
| SIGNATURE | DELAURE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3707-1908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Outstanding”
In this essay, I reflect on how ideas and commitments that defined Steve Schwarze’s early engagements with rhetorical studies shaped his later work on environmental melodrama. Steve and I met as teenagers when we were both undergraduates at Drake University, studying with Robert Hariman, who encouraged his students to publish our own journal, Diatribe. Steve’s writings in that journal are astonishingly prescient and presage the later emphasis in …
Environmental Comedy
“No Impact Man” (NIM) Colin Beavan attracted international media attention and a good deal of criticism for his year-long experiment attempting to live making zero net impact on the environment. Whereas Beavan's critics dismissed the project as a mere publicity stunt, this essay reads the NIM blog, book, and documentary film as a compelling performance of green identity in the comic frame. This performance—which links private consumption to ecolo…
Peace Profile
Planting Seeds of Change
Ella Baker was a central but largely unknown figure of the American Civil Rights movement. In her grassroots organizing work, she eschewed the “charismatic orator” model of social movement leadership, seeking instead to empower ordinary people. This paper argues that Baker's community organizing rhetoric offers a valuable contribution to feminism and rhetorical theory, revealing both the promise and limitations of invitational rhetoric, and point…
Planting Seeds of Change
Ella Baker was a central but largely unknown figure of the American Civil Rights movement. In her grassroots organizing work, she eschewed the “charismatic orator” model of social movement leadership, seeking instead to empower ordinary people. This paper argues that Baker's community organizing rhetoric offers a valuable contribution to feminism and rhetorical theory, revealing both the promise and limitations of invitational rhetoric, and point…
Planting Seeds of Change
Ella Baker was a central but largely unknown figure of the American Civil Rights movement. In her grassroots organizing work, she eschewed the “charismatic orator” model of social movement leadership, seeking instead to empower ordinary people. This paper argues that Baker's community organizing rhetoric offers a valuable contribution to feminism and rhetorical theory, revealing both the promise and limitations of invitational rhetoric, and point…
Environmental Comedy
“No Impact Man” (NIM) Colin Beavan attracted international media attention and a good deal of criticism for his year-long experiment attempting to live making zero net impact on the environment. Whereas Beavan's critics dismissed the project as a mere publicity stunt, this essay reads the NIM blog, book, and documentary film as a compelling performance of green identity in the comic frame. This performance—which links private consumption to ecolo…
Peace Profile
Outstanding”
In this essay, I reflect on how ideas and commitments that defined Steve Schwarze’s early engagements with rhetorical studies shaped his later work on environmental melodrama. Steve and I met as teenagers when we were both undergraduates at Drake University, studying with Robert Hariman, who encouraged his students to publish our own journal, Diatribe. Steve’s writings in that journal are astonishingly prescient and presage the later emphasis in …
Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (2 works) · Rhetorical question (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)