Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art

Zagacki, Kenneth S.; Gallagher, Victoria J.

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“…Finally, the protests outside AT&T Stadium do not guarantee policy decisions will be enacted to solve for the shooting deaths of Jean, Terry, and all African American men who are shot and killed by police officers. This is a point Zagacki and Gallagher (2009) reminded us about (p. 174); that the materiality of rhetoric is not an end in itself which creates an argumentative space for policy decisions to be enacted. Instead, the materiality of rhetoric opens a performative space that elicits an experience from the people who inhabit that space.…”

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“…Understanding the protests as a performative display of social justice discourse acting on the fans attending the game emphasizes the rhetorical significance of the stadium. As Zagacki and Gallagher (2009) remind us, “[t]he move from symbolicity to materiality involves a shift from examining representations…to examining enactments” (p. 172). Thus, the material existence of the stadium works with and against sports to amplify discourse about Jean and Terry’s deaths in order to achieve legal and social justice while inviting onlookers to consider the effects police brutality and racial injustice have on their community.…”

Section: Place-as-protestmentioning

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Rhetoric, Materiality, and the Disruption of Meaning: The Stadium as a Place of Protest

Cavaiani

2020

Communication & Sport

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Recently, athlete protests about social injustice have garnered much attention from fans and the media. An element frequently overlooked is the role of place in sports protests. Stadiums are iconic markers of identity for communities and play a significant role in the media’s representation of sports games. Informed by Endres and Senda-Cook’s research about place-in-protest, I argue how the Botham Jean and O’Shae Terry protests outside AT&T Stadium in Dallas functioned as place-as-rhetoric to build on the intended purpose of the stadium while temporarily reconstructing its meaning. This material enactment is achieved by the stadium serving as a performative space that authorizes new meaning onto the stadium and surrounding space while heralding it as a champion marker of social justice. I position my analysis within a framework that understands how sports stadiums deploy material rhetoric in ways that produce embodied rhetoric and ephemeral rhetoric that legitimize the Jean and Terry protests as social justice protests. I argue that the stadium functions as place-in-rhetoric to capitalize on its mobilization of fandom in order to amplify social justice messages to a wider audience.

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Rhetoric, Materiality, and the Disruption of Meaning: The Stadium as a Place of Protest

Cavaiani

2020

Communication & Sport

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“…John Lynch () describes how the Creation Museum discounts factual evidence of evolution by relying on theistic beliefs and values presumed to be held by visitors. Kenneth Zagacki and Victoria Gallagher () chronicle an outdoor exhibition that enacts environmental concerns extra discursively (p. 188). These and other museum studies suggest the potential for exhibits to move audiences into action.…”

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Minimizing the Dangers of Air Pollution Using Alternative Facts: A Science Museum Case Study

Lee¹

2019

World Med & Health Policy

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A science museum exhibition about human health contains an exhibit that minimizes health impacts of air pollution. Relevant details, such as the full range of health risks; fossil fuel combustion; air quality statutes (and the local electrical utility's violations of these statues), are omitted, while end users of electricity are blamed. The exhibit accomplishes this, not through outright falsification, but through selected “alternative facts” that change the focus and imply misleading alternate explanations. Using two classical rhetorical concepts (the practical syllogism and the enthymeme) allows for the surfacing of missing evidence and unstated directives underlying multimodal rhetoric. By stating multimedia arguments syllogistically, a technique is proposed for revealing hidden political subtexts from beneath a putatively disinterested presentation of facts. The piece should be of interest to researchers, message designers, and policymakers interested in the rhetoric of science, ecology, health, and museums.

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“…Dickinson, 2002;G. Dickinson & Ott, 2013;Modesti, 2008;Stewart & Dickinson, 2008), places of protest Endres, Senda-Cook, & Cozen, 2014;Herbig & Hess, 2012;West, 2010), parks (E. Dickinson, 2011;Senda-Cook, 2012Zagacki & Gallagher, 2009), and cities and suburbs (G. Dickinson, 1997Dickinson, , 2015Fleming, 1998;Senda-Cook, Middleton, & Endres, 2016;Wood, 2009).…”

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In Situ Rhetoric

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Senda-Cook

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This special issue examines intersections between qualitative and rhetorical inquiry through (re)introducing rhetorical fieldwork. We define rhetorical fieldwork as a set of approaches that integrate rhetorical and qualitative inquiry toward the examination of in situ practices and performances in a rhetorical field. This set of approaches falls within the participatory turn in rhetorical studies, in which rhetorical scholars increasingly turn to fieldwork, interviews, and other forms of participatory research to augment conventional methodological practices. The special issue highlights four original articles that employ, exemplify, and reflect on the value of rhetorical fieldwork as a form of critical/cultural inquiry. In this introduction, we not only introduce the key themes and articles in the special issue but also compile our take on the state of the art of rhetorical fieldwork in an effort to introduce this form of research practice to those who have not encountered it before.

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Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art

Cited by 52 publications

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Rhetoric, Materiality, and the Disruption of Meaning: The Stadium as a Place of Protest

Rhetoric, Materiality, and the Disruption of Meaning: The Stadium as a Place of Protest

Minimizing the Dangers of Air Pollution Using Alternative Facts: A Science Museum Case Study

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