Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The space to work in public life / David J. Coogan and John M. Ackerman
  • Rhetoric revealed : should we name the tools? Concealing and revealing the art of rhetoric / Carolyn R. Miller
  • Power, Publics, and the Rhetorical Uses of Democracy / Candice Rai
  • The Public Work of Critical Political Communication / M. Lane Bruner
  • Rhetorical Engagement in the Cultural Economies of Cities / John M. Ackerman
  • Democracy and Its Limitations / Ralph Cintron
  • Part 2: Rhetorical Interventions: Rhetorical Engagements in the Scientist's Process of Remaking Race as Genetic / Celeste M. Condit
  • Going Public in a Disabling Discourse / Linda Flower
  • Sophists for Social Change / David J. Coogan
  • Knowledge Work with the Cherokee Nation: The Pedagogy of Engaging Publics in a Praxis of New Media / Ellen Cushman and Erik Green
  • On Being Useful: Rhetoric and the Work of Engagement / Jeffrey T. Grabill
  • Part 3: Remaking Rhetoric in Universities and Publics / Finding a Place for School in Rhetoric's Public Turn / David Fleming
  • Mediating Differences /
  • Erik Juergensmeyer and Thomas P. Miller
  • A place for the dissident press in a rhetorical education: "Sending up a signal flare in the darkness" / Diana George and Paula Mathieu
  • The Community Literacy Advocacy Project: Civic Revival through Rhetorical Activity in Rural Arkansas / David A. Jolliffe
  • The Prospects for the Public Work of Rhetoric: A Coda / Susan C. Jarratt.