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Hauser and Grim (both U. of Colorado) present a selection of papers from a May 2002 conference held in Las Vegas and attended by 400-plus scholars from eight nations, examining what it means to practice democracy in the 21st century. Thirty-nine contributions are organized into sections of plenary p

This collection presents theoretical, critical, applied and pedagogical questions and cases of publics and public spheres, examining these contexts as sources and sites of civic engagement and reflecting the current state of rhetorical theory and research.

Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association's Hochmuth Nichols Award. In his new book, Hauser examines the discourse of political prisoners, specifically the discourse of prisoners of conscience, as a form of rhetoric in which the vernacular is the main source of available appeals and the foundation for political agency. Hauser explores how modes of resistance employed by these prisoners constitute what he deems a "thick moral vernacular" rhetoric of...