Counterpublics And The State

By Robert Asen, Robert Asen, Daniel C. Brouwer

Explores antagonistic encounters between people, both individuals and groups, and governments. In the form of demonstrations, social movements, guerrilla warfare, and internet "hacktivism," politic...

Visions Of Poverty: Welfare Policy And Political Imagination

By Robert Asen, Robert , 1968- Asen

Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to po...

Visions Of Poverty: Welfare Policy And Political Imagination

By Robert Asen

"Images shape the debate surrounding poverty. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to poor fa...

Argument In Everyday Life

By Robert Asen

Democracy, Deliberation, And Education

By Robert Asen

The local school board is one of America’s enduring venues of lay democracy at work. In Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, Robert Asen takes the pulse of this democratic exemplar through an in...

Text + Field: Innovations In Rhetorical Method

By Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Glenn Howard, Karma R. Chavez, Robert Asen, Sara L. McKinnon (Editor), Robert Asen (Editor), Karma R. Chávez (Editor), Robert Glenn Howard (Editor)

Explores The Benefits Of Utilizing Field Methods For Studying Rhetoric As A Complement To Text-based Approaches In Order To Address Questions About Text, Context, Audience, Judgment And Ethics--pro...

School Choice And The Betrayal Of Democracy: How Market-Based Education Reform Fails Our Communities

By Robert Asen

"Examines political calls for market-based education reform and explores the efforts of public-school advocates to build democratically spirited connections between schools and communities"--

Counterpublics And The State

By Robert Asen, Daniel C. Brouwer, Robert Asen, Daniel C. Brouwer

Explores antagonistic encounters between people, both individuals and groups, and governments. In the form of demonstrations, social movements, guerrilla warfare, and internet "hacktivism," politic...

Public Modalities

By John M. Sloop, Dale Smith, Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Glenn Howard, Joshua Gunn, Helene A. Shugart, Robert Asen, Daniel C. Brouwer

This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of 'the public' or 'public life,' and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars h...

Public Modalities

By Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Glenn Howard, Joshua Gunn, Helene A. Shugart, Robert Asen, Daniel C. Brouwer

Bringing together scholars in rhetorical, cultural, and media studies, this collection of new case studies illustrates a modalities approach to the study of publics. These case studies explore the...