A Rhetoric of Everyday Violence: Embodied Slow Violence

Belinda Walzer Appalachian State University

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ABSTRACT This article builds on the scholarship on violence at the nexus of rhetoric, philosophy, decoloniality, and human rights discourse to theorize what it calls a rhetoric of everyday violence. Moving beyond the focus on the politics of representation in slow violence, it brings a transnational feminist rhetorical analytic and a focus on the politics of recognition to illegible temporal violence, arguing that a rhetoric of everyday violence can help recalibrate human rights discourse to recognize temporal and gendered violence as human rights violations.

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Philosophy & Rhetoric
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2023-12-31
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10.5325/philrhet.56.3-4.0373
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