Righting Past Wrongs”
Rhetorical Disidentification and Historical Reference in Response to Philadelphia’s Opioid Epidemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12465226 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ashley P Ferrell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 533-568 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rhetoric and Public Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-8392 • E-ISSN: 1534-5238 |
| Publisher | Michigan State University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14321/rhetpublaffa.22.4.0533 |
| OpenAlex | W3004673089 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
Opioid addiction and overdose are widely recognized as a contemporary “crisis” across the United States. To address rapidly increasing mortality rates related to this substance use epidemic, the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office announced in January 2018 that it would encourage the development of supervised injection sites or “Comprehensive User Engagement Sites” within city limits. Official communications cited select moments from the region’s past to frame these sites as urgent while constituting a supportive, unified public. Through remediating disidentification, a mode of rhetorical contestation and reformulation, local community members used an alternate historical framing to resist dominant ideology and revise the terms of the related public discourse. By further developing the concept of rhetorical disidentification, this essay demonstrates how the deployment of historical analogy in response to proposed public health interventions can enable the public recognition and potential address of systemic racial inequities
Analogy · Criminology · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public health · Public relations · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · History · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
The Opioid Crisis in Black Communities
Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century
Culture, Society and the Media
Stuart Hall
Needle Exchange Programs' Status in US Politics
How the harm reduction movement contrasts itself against punitive prohibition
An (in)visible universe of grief
The Pirate and the Sovereign
Presidential Rhetoric and the Power of Definition
The Problem of Ideology-Marxism without Guarantees
The War on Drugs That Wasn’t
Constitutive rhetoric
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |