Rhetorical Citizenship: Studying the Discursive Crafting and Enactment of Citizenship

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This article argues for the relevance of a rhetorical approach to the study of citizenship. We show how this view aligns with current views of the multidimensionality of citizenship, explain our use of the term rhetoric, and illustrate the usefulness of a rhetorical approach in two examples. In close textual readings both examples – one vernacular, one elite – are shown to discursively craft and enact different notions of citizenship via-a-vis the European refugee crisis. We conclude that a rhetorical perspective on public civic discourse is useful in virtue of its close attention to discursive creativity as well as to textual properties that may significantly, but often implicitly, affect citizens’ understanding of their own role in the polity, and further because it recognizes deep differences as inevitable while valorizing discourse across them.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftCitizenship Studies
Vol/bind21
Udgave nummer5
Sider (fra-til)570-587
Antal sider18
ISSN1362-1025
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 12 jun. 2017

    Forskningsområder

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet - rhetorical citizenship, rhetorical analysis, PeopleReachingOut, New Year's Speech, dissensus

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