Why “Anticolonial” International Rhetorical Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12465296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew deTar (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 191-206 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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.24.1-2.0191 |
| OpenAlex | W3194158987 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 31 |
Rhetorical studies as a discipline relies on a set of theories and a geography of case studies that circularly reinforce one another to authorize white-Euro-American traditions of knowledge beholden to colonial ways of knowing the world. Calls to “internationalize” the cases and topics of rhetorical studies are easily subsumed by the self-authorizing racist epistemology of the discipline, since additive models of “diverse” cases repurpose diversity to reinforce the authority of the discipline as it already exists. How should the globalization of rhetorical studies address the disciplinary logic of white, colonial, U.S. normativity? Studying non-U.S., non-Western rhetorical practice must be an anticolonial political intervention to fundamentally reimagine the discipline or it will risk reproducing a racist disciplinary structure. This essay maps three ways that scholars studying “international” cases have led a restructuring of the discipline by challenging the presumptions of universality that creep into scholarship. Anticolonial rhetorical scholars challenge processes of universalization as method, as rhetorical practice, and as ontology. When these processes of universalization become the object of study for rhetorical scholars, there is a possibility that rhetorical studies can develop the reflexivity to challenge its own circularly reinforcing, exclusionary disciplinary logic of white-U.S. normativity
Colonialism · Discipline · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Rhetorical question · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Universalization · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Constructing Rhetorical Borders
Novel Violence
Performativity, precarity, and Sexual Policies
On Being Included
Of Experts and Tokens
Delinking rhetorics of neoliberalism
Racism
Against canon
Precarious privilege
Absence of the present
Technology and/as Governmentality
Delinking Rhetoric, or Revisiting McGee’s Fragmentation Thesis through Decoloniality
Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon
Rhetorical Places
Comparative Rhetoric, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms
Speaking of indigeneity
Rhetoric’s rac(e/ist) problems
Research in Rhetoric” Revisited
Beyond Inclusion
RhetoricSoWhite and US centered
The vortex of multiculturalism in South Korea
Whiteness, internationalization, and erasure
Usurping the contract
Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |