enculturation: a journal of rhetoric, writing, and culture

14/08/2023

New book review headed your way!

Read Richard Sylvestre's review of James Chase Sanchez’s Salt of the Earth: Rhetoric, Preservation, and White Supremacy.

Richard Sylvestre, Oklahoma State University (Published August 14, 2023) Salt, as James Chase Sanchez points out in his autoethnographic and deeply rhetorical work Salt of the Earth: Rhetoric, Preservation, and White Supremacy, can preserve, but it can also corrode. He uses this metaphor to great ef...

11/08/2023

“The continual motion of the planet produces raw seismic effects like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, but it also produces semiotic effects like rhetoric and meaning.”

Lot’s of fun stuff think about in our latest featured piece: Matthew Halm’s “Molten Circulation and Rhetoric’s Materiality.”

Read here!

Matthew Halm, Georgia Institute of Technology (Published August 9, 2023) Every day, thousands of seismic events occur across the surface of the earth. Most are imperceptible, barely even registering on a seismometer, though many have noticeable or even catastrophic effects. These vibrations are just...

09/08/2023

It’s time for some NEW CONTENT! 👏🏼

Check out Scott Sundvall’s brilliant book review of Monea's The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight.

Scott Sundvall, University of Memphis Published July 5, 2023 “I know what boys like / I know what guys want” –The Waitresses Considering all the static and bad noise concerning ChatGPT and the ostensible automation of writing, one might wonder why we are not concerned with the seemingly automa...

22/06/2023

“We identify how policies pertaining to the personal statement reinforce value systems surrounding language use by inequitably regulating a person’s agency within higher education.”

Need some intellectual stimulation this summer? Read our latest featured piece written by Elena Kalodner Martin and Jeremy Levine!

Elena Kalodner Martin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jeremy Levine, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Published June 20, 2023) Significant work in rhetoric and composition has been done to connect the value systems surrounding language use to the raced, gendered, and classed structural in...

22/05/2023

“The book serves as both a rhetorical force to dismantle Asian American stereotypes….and a comprehensively researched academic text that manifests a counter-narrative to the commonly held belief that Japanese Americans were submissive and obedient in response to their mass incarceration.”

Read our latest featured book review of Mira Shimabukuro’s Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration by Lena (Sunada-Matsumura) Newlin!

Lena (Sunada-Matsumura) Newlin, University of Wyoming (Published May 22, 2023) “Nikkei [Japanese American] history is filled with rebels and rebellions–male and female dissidents who dared, both individually and together to stand up or sit down and say no.

28/04/2023

🗣️ More new content coming your way!

We’re excited to share Graham Marema’s thoughtful and intriguing book review. Here’s a brief snippet to get you started:

“Another way to frame 'writing to save the world' – with more scholastic gravity and less Avengers imagery – is through the lens of 'ecocomposition.'"

Graham Marema, University of Wyoming (Published April 28, 2023) Composition classes ask a lot of our students. Introduction to higher-level writing not only shapes how undergraduates enter the world of academia with thoughtfulness and power, but also begins the messy work of disrupting preconception...

26/04/2023

📢NEW CONTENT ALERT📢
Visit our new content section and check out our latest featured piece, “Making the Scene: The Rhetoric of DIY Composition.”

Jason Luther, Rowan University Kristin Prins, Cal Poly Pomona Frank Farmer, University of Kansas (Emeritus) (Published April 26, 2023) A woman-owned community print shop. Textile art made from salvaged materials. An open-source feminist hacker zine. A free skool that teaches UX. A makerspace in a pu...

31/03/2023

📢TODAY’S FEATURED PIECE📢
Visit our new content section to find Nate DeProspo’s thought-provoking book review of Jordynn Jack’s Raveling the Brain: Toward a Transdisciplinary Neurorhetoric.

Nate DeProspo, University of South Carolina Published August 31, 2022 Challenging traditional methodological approaches in the neurosciences that attempt to “unravel” the truth of our neuroprocesses, Jordynn Jack is invested in raveling the brain, which takes a more exploratory, interdisciplinar...

16/03/2023

“…women transformed both bicycle culture and the bicycle itself; these transformations often took the form of grassroots invention and activism.”
Check out this book review by Millie Hizer in our latest issue:

Millie Hizer, Indiana University Bloomington (Published April 5, 2022) I first read Sarah Hallenbeck’s Claiming the Bicycle: Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America in February of 2020, five years after it was published. This was before the pandemic changed our lives, usherin...

15/12/2022

The fall 2022 semester is coming to a close! Check out this article from our latest issue if you need a break from grading:

James Rushing Daniel, University of Washington (Published March 15, 2022) In his 2021 polemic, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, activist and human ecology scholar Andreas Malm stages a defense of sabotage in the context of climate change. Framing capitalism’s rapacious appetite for energy as the primary...

10/10/2022

After a 3 year run, Dr. Caddie Alford’s tenure as enculturation's book review editor is coming to a close. We thank Dr. Alford for her dedication and service to our journal—she will be missed! We'd also like to extend a special welcome to Dr. Ben Wetherbee, who will be taking over as book review editor come mid-November. Welcome to the team, Dr. Wetherbee!

07/10/2022

We’re excited to announce the launch of our latest Issue! Featuring a variety of articles, sonic projects, and book reviews, Issue 34 is stacked with a little bit of everything for everyone. Don’t miss out on this captivating new content:

enculturation is published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. Please see our copyright page for details.

16/11/2021

November 25 is fast approaching...
http://enculturation.net/6.2/black

Re/Performing and Re/Claiming Native America: Image Events in the Thanksgiving Day of Mourning Protest

22/09/2021

How are your semesters going?

Here's a good throwback if you're in need of distraction: http://enculturation.net/6.2/gray

Critical/Ludic Performatives: A Case Study in the Serious Play of Environmental Activism [1]Jonathan M. Gray, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

08/09/2021

Hope everyone is staying safe in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.

http://enculturation.net/how-katrinas-children

Robert Connor, Akita International University Enculturation 7 (2010): http://enculturation.net/how-katrinas-children

06/09/2021

Wishing everyone a restful and safe Labor Day.

11/08/2021

Does your syllabus need a refresh? enculturation has fresh articles: http://enculturation.net/

enculturation is published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. Please see our copyright page for details.

09/08/2021

In search of an interesting read during the last days of summer? Enculturation has you covered. http://enculturation.net/

enculturation is published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. Please see our copyright page for details.

30/07/2021

Check out today's featured article: http://enculturation.net/weepy-rhetoric

Warning for: ***de violence illness

Sarah Orem, Smith CollegeNeil Simpkins, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Published December 16, 2015) “In a sense, the predicament is to understand what kind of community is composed of those who are beside themselves.” - Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

19/07/2021

A throwback to 2016: "Disgust, Distributed: Virtual Public Shaming as Epideictic Assemblage"

"Ultimately, though, what I want to argue is that the accounts of traditional epideictic described above are not so much defining characteristics of epideictic as they are the result of an enmeshment in specific types of (technological) assemblages: complex, dynamic entanglements of material and discursive factors that produce specific kinds of relations and effects."

Read more of Jodie Nicotra's article here: http://enculturation.net/disgust-distributed

Jodie Nicotra, University of Idaho (Published July 6, 2016) Timeline of an Internet shaming:

14/07/2021

Today's featured article comes from our latest issue on climate change. Check it out here:
http://enculturation.net/Talking%20Climate%20Faith

Megan Von Bergen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Bethany Mannon, Appalachian State University[1] (Published November 10, 2020)

13/07/2021

Check out today's featured article:

http://enculturation.net/adnan-farhan-abdul-latif-did-not-go-quietly

"the discursive production of detainees suggests that bare life and the scapegoat describe the ways state-based rhetorics work to bring particular types of subjects into being, but they do not predict the cultural/rhetorical production of the detainee who interrupts that process."

Gale Coskan-Johnson, Brock University (Published December 14, 2015) If you don't have a place where you can hold these people, the only other option is to kill them, and we don't operate that way.(Cheney qtd. in “Cheney Backs Gay Marriage”)

03/07/2021

Some Independence Day reading:
"I want to talk about such accountability and solidarity in rhetorical histories as a promising path to more decolonial futures."
http://enculturation.net/knowing-your-story

Timothy R. Dougherty, West Chester University of Pennsylvania (Published April 20, 2016)

01/07/2021

Check out today's featured review:
http://enculturation.net/review_rhetoric_technology_virtues

Jialei Jiang, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Published Sept. 14, 2020)

22/06/2021

Check out today's featured review: Andrei Guruianu and Natalia Andrievskikh’s THE AFTERLIFE OF DISCARDED OBJECTS: MEMORY AND FORGETTING IN A CULTURE OF WASTE

http://enculturation.net/Review-Afterlife-of-Discarded-Objects

John Purfield, University of South Carolina (Published March 15, 2021)

21/06/2021

Check out today's featured article:

"However, in continuing to press for rhetorics and literacies of climate change, we ought to be attuned to ethical questions regarding the examples we choose in our research and pedagogy. In this essay I emphasize the importance of attending to colonial causes and consequences in studying climate change by applying a decolonial and historical method to environmental justice activism in Puerto Rico."

http://enculturation.net/colonial_causes_consequences

Karrieann Soto Vega, University of Kentucky (Published November 10, 2020)

15/06/2021

What's your favorite summer reading companion? (enculturation: a journal of rhetoric, writing, and culture has has plenty of reading to accompany it!)

http://enculturation.net

enculturation is published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. Please see our copyright page for details.

10/06/2021

Kick off your summer reading with some of enculturation's newest content:
http://enculturation.net/material_rhetorics_species_at_risk

09/06/2021

Check out today's featured article!
http://enculturation.net/erodingthefuture

Stacey Stanfield Anderson, California State University Channel Islands Kiki Patsch, California State University Channel Islands Raquel Baker, California State University Channel Islands

17/05/2021

Check out today's featured article:
"In the case of mean comments and haters, the alleged authority is the haters, their hate speech, and their hierarchical worldview that presumes power over women’s bodies."
http://enculturation.net/readingmeancomments

12/05/2021

If you're attending Rhetoric Society of America's 2021 Institute, Seminar 5, "Rhetoric, Technology, and Culture," enculturation has reading for you!
http://enculturation.net/habits-of-interaction

Jessica E. Slentz, Case Western Reserve University (Published July 20, 2016)

05/05/2021

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with today's feature from enculturation: Vanishing Fronteras: A Call for Documentary Filmmaking in Cultural Rhetorics (con la ayuda de Anzaldúa)
http://enculturation.net/vanishing-fronteras

04/05/2021

Check out today's featured article:

"By analyzing parts of the racial discourse surrounding Black Lives Matter, I highlight points of tension that need to be addressed in order for cross-cultural solidarity to be fostered among communities of color amidst our struggle for both respective and collective liberation"

http://enculturation.net/building-a-culture-of-solidarity

Santos F. Ramos, Michigan State University (April 20, 2016)

01/05/2021

If you're attending Rhetoric Society of America's Summer Institute, Seminar 7: "The Question of Decoloniality," enculturation has reading to prepare!

"... the more stories we have, the more options we have for decolonial futures." Read more here:
http://enculturation.net/knowing-your-story

Timothy R. Dougherty, West Chester University of Pennsylvania (Published April 20, 2016)

28/04/2021

If you're attending Seminar 1 at Institute ("Indigenous Rhetorics: Clearing a Path for Meaningful, Responsible, Relational Practice" -- May 24-28), enculturation has great articles to prepare:

"Relational Practices and Pedagogies in an Age of Climate Change: Engaging Students in Understanding Indigenous Ways of Knowing"

Check it out here:
http://enculturation.net/relationalpracticesandpedagogies

Yavanna M. Brownlee (Published November 10, 2020)

27/04/2021

From today's featured article by Stephanie Mahnke: "The onset of 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent anti-Asian racism circulated narratives and national imaginaries of APIA identity that have further reinforced this diverse group’s identity as both foreign and domestic."

http://enculturation.net/conditioning_cultural_representations

20/04/2021

Today's featured article is from our latest issue on climate change:

"... environmental injustice and environmental racism in the United States is a long, complex one that has been occurring for centuries."

Read more of Julie Bates's article here: http://enculturation.net/Local_Expertise_Global_Effects

19/04/2021

virtual experience is about a month away! Gear up with reading from -- Today's feature: http://enculturation.net/an-empirical-consideration

"... there is no clearly identified disciplinary heading under which "rhetoric and composition" proceeds."

Elizabeth Losh, University of California, San Diego

15/04/2021

In case you missed it, enculturation has new content! enculturation.net

12/04/2021

New week, new content! Check it out: http://enculturation.net/readingmeancomments