Table of Contents

List of Figures/Photographs.- Dedication.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Introducing Rhetoricoviolence.- 1.The Materiality of Rhetoric and Violence.- 2.Rhetorical Cartography: Mapping the Terror Wars.- 3.Violent Subjects.- 4.The Buzzing of the Drones.- 5.Mapping the Disposal of Terrorist Bodies.- 6.Occupying Tahrir: Resistance, Violence, and Political Change.- Conclusion: The Terror Wars Drone On…Or Don’t They?.- Bibliography.- Notes

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"Heather Hayes has produced a careful, well-reasoned, and thoughtful analysis of what she terms "rhetoricoviolence," the multi-layered ways in which rhetoric and violence can be understood as traveling together. Deeply embedded in the materialist turn, Hayes' analysis also relies on theories of rhetorical cartography to provide a cogent analysis of the war of terror. In so doing, she deepens our understanding of rhetorical theory and method, contributes to our knowledge of the ways in which violence and war are deeply rhetorical, and adds to the scholarly conversation on empire and colonialization. Scholars of politics, rhetoric, and history will find much of value in this work." (Mary E. Stuckey, Professor of Communication & Political Science, Georgia State University, USA) "Heather Hayes has developed an innovative approach to interrogating the global terror wars by theorizing violence as a rhetorical form and using case studies to map the circulation of what she calls "rhetoricoviolence." She examines how violence produces, articulates, and reconfigures subjectivities and rhetorical situations (with rhetorical situations redefined to consist of assemblages of people, spaces, and technologies). Focusing on the violence of the US drone program, Hayes's critical rhetorical cartography documents the use of this kind of power to colonize the Arab world into "good Muslims." Her project invites and opens a way for further cartographies aimed at a better understanding and productive critique of transnational empire." (Robert L. Ivie, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University, USA) "Claiming that the remaking of the world during "the terror wars" has been a fundamentally rhetorical project, this book offers a new and provocative thesis on the rhetoric of violence. There is no such thing as "mere rhetoric," Professor Hayes argues. Rhetoric is all, and so rhetorical scholars have a lot of work to do." (Jeremy Engels, Associate Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, USA)

About the Author

Heather Ashley Hayes is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Whitman College, USA. Her research traverses the intersections of rhetoric, race, violence, and the global terror wars. She has published work with academic journals such as Quarterly Journal of Speech and Argumentation and Advocacy and her work has been featured in a number of book publications.