Memories for sale: Nostalgia and the construction of identity in Old Pasadena

The Arguments of the Tombs of the Unknown: Relationality and National Legitimation

“…Rhetorical studies of places and/or objects, such as quilts, gravestones, coffee houses, markets, parks, cityscapes, museums, and monuments, have made the claim repeatedly that objects and built environments may be just as rhetorical as words (Biesecker 2002;Blair 1999Blair , 2001Michel 2000, 2007;Dickinson 1997;Dickinson et al 2005Dickinson et al , 2006Gallagher 1999Gallagher , 2004Zagacki and Gallagher 2009). These claims have prompted Ott and Dickinson (2009), in an important recent synthesis, to take the position that ''visual rhetoric in everyday life is not merely visual; it is not only an effect of the eye or a consequence of cognition' ' (p. 397).…”

Feeling Cartography

“…in the containment of social bodies by foregrounding borders, positionality, and subjectivities in the formation of identity and agency (Blair, Jeppeson, & Pucci, 1991;Blair, 1999;Dickenson, 1997;Dickenson, Ott, & Aoki, 2006;Flores, 1996;McAlister, 2010;McKerrow, 1999;Pezzullo, 2007;Shome, 2003). These mechanisms may territorialize and normalize, simultaneously generating conditions in which precarity must be absorbed, managed, or possibly transformed.…”

Addressing the sublime: space, mass representation, and the unpresentable

“…This essay joins the strong, developing interest in the spatial qualities of rhetoric of the last decade or so (Blair, Jeppeson, & Pucci, Jr., 1991;Dickinson, 1997;McKerrow, 1999;Zelizer, 1995), spurred by an interdisciplinary confluence of structural and post-structural theory, feminist philosophy, materialist philosophy, political philosophy on discourse and public space, critical geography, and memory studies. 2 Attention to the production of space through discursive practices is further evident in the longstanding discussion of the consequences of mass communication and capitalism for cultural spaces (Althusser, 1972;Grossberg, 1992;Habermas, 1991;Jameson, 1991;Laclau & Mouffe, 1985).…”