Covid and . . . How To Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic is among the first edited collections to consider how rhetoric shapes Covids disease trajectory. Arguing that the circulation of any virus must be understood in tandem with the public communication accompanying it, this collection converses with interdisciplinary stakeholders also committed to the project of social wellness during pandemic times. With inventive ways of thinking about structural inequities in health, these essays showcase the forces that pandemic rhetoric exerts across health conditions, politics, and histories of social injustice.
Covid and . . . How To Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic is among the first edited collections to consider how rhetoric shaped Covids disease trajectory. With inventive ways of thinking about structural inequities in health, these essays showcase the forces that pandemic rhetoric exerts across health conditions, politics, and histories of social injustice.
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: An Agenda for Pandemic Rhetoric |
Allison L. Rowland, Emily Winderman, and Jennifer Malkowski Part
1.
Pre-existing and Chronic Covid and Racialized Myths: Pre-existing Conditions
and the Invisible Traces of White Supremacy | Raquel M. Robvais Covid and
Environmental Atmospheres: Pulmonary Publics and Our Shared Air | Sara
DiCaglio Covid and Science Denialism: The Rhetorical Foundations of US Anti-
Masking Discourse | Kurt Zemlicka Covid and Vaccine Hesitancy: Tracing the
Tuskegee-Covid Straw Man Fallacy as a History Presently Unfolding | Veronica
Joyner and Heidi Y. Lawrence Part
2. Essential and Disposable Covid and
Essential Workers: Medical Crises and the Rhetorical Strategies of
Disposability | Marina Levina Covid and Being a Doctor: Physicians Published
Narratives as Crisis Archive | Molly Margaret Kessler, Michael Aylward, and
Bernard Trappey Covid and Fatphobia: How Rhetorics of Disposability Render
Fat Bodies Unworthy of Care and Life | Hailey Nicole Otis Covid and Intersex:
In/Essential Medical Management, Celeste E. Orr Part
3. Remedy and Resistance
Covid and Shared Black Health: Rethinking Nonviolence in the Dual Pandemics |
DiArron M. Covid and Masking: Race, Dress, and Addressivity | Angela Nurse
and Diane Keeling Covid and Disability: Tactical Responses to Normative
Vaccine Communication in Appalachia | Julie Gerdes, Priyanka Ganguly, and
Luana Shafer Covid and Doubt: An Emergent Structure of Feeling | Jeffrey A.
Bennett Contributors
Emily Winderman is assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Allison L. Rowland is Maurer Associate Professor of Performance & Communication Arts at St. Lawrence University.
Jennifer Malkowski is associate professor of communication arts and sciences at California State University, Chico.
