Abstract In 1954, the Ford Foundation, new to international grant-giving, administered a small grant to a U.S.-educated Tehran native, Najmeh Najafi, to begin a development program for “village women” in rural Iran. Development was fast becoming a central transnational discourse of the post-war decolonization period and the early Cold War, and Najafi appears as a unique contributor to this discourse, as investment in women and women's programs would not become commonplace in international philanthropy until the early 1970s. But rather than a mere footnote, Najafi's case represents an important example of Ford's surveillance and increasingly “projectized” approach to development processes in strategic areas of the world, even as Najafi evaded Ford's attempts to make her “legible” in their global philanthropic system. This essay offers a rhetorical history of Najafi's negotiations with Ford and the tensions that arose between them around the binaries of North/South, East/West, developed/developing, and masculine/feminine. Using a lens of “scalar geopolitics” to emphasizes linkages between the local, national, and global, the article mines both Najafi's memoirs and Ford's grant archives in order to reflect on the complex ways development and philanthropy were framed and constituted during a tumultuous era in Iran and beyond.

Book Review| September 01 2018 Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars. By Heather Ashley Hayes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016; pp. xv + 207. $99.00 e-book; $129.00 cloth. Timothy Barney Timothy Barney University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 543–546. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0543 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Barney; Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2018; 21 (3): 543–546. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0543 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract In 1951, the American Federation of Labor produced a map of the Soviet Union showing the locations of 175 forced labor camps administered by the Gulag. Widely appropriated in popular magazines and newspapers, and disseminated internationally as propaganda against the U.S.S.R., the map, entitled “‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.,” would be cited as “one of the most widely circulated pieces of anti-Communist literature.” By contextualizing the map's origins and circulation, as well as engaging in a close analysis of its visual codes and intertextual relationships with photographs, captions, and other materials, this essay argues that the Gulag map became an evidentiary weapon in the increasingly bipolar spaces of the early Cold War. In particular, “‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.” draws on cartography's unique power of “placement” to locate forced labor camps with authenticity and precision, infiltrating the impenetrable spaces of the Soviet Union as a visually compelling mode of Cold War knowledge production.

Book Review| March 01 2013 Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy. By Ned O'Gorman. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press; 2012. pp. xi + 321. $59.95 cloth. Timothy Barney Timothy Barney University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2013) 16 (1): 202–206. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.1.0202 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Barney; Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2013; 16 (1): 202–206. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.1.0202 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2013 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract Air-age glob alism was a discursive phenomenon throughout the development of World War II that accounted for the rapid "shrinking" of the world through air technologies and the internationalization of American interests. Cartography became air-age globalism’s primary popular expression, and journalistic cartographers such as Richard Edes Harrison at Fortune magazine introduced new mapping projections and perspectives in response to these global changes. This essay argues that Harrisons mapping innovations mediate a geopolitical shift in America toward a modern, image-based internationalism. Through recastings of "vision" and "strategy," Harrison’s work offers an opportunity to assess the rhetorical tensions between idealism and realism in midcentury cartographic forms and the larger spatial and perceptual challenges facing U.S. foreign policy during its rise to superpower status.

Book Review| March 01 2010 Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms. Denise M. Bostdorff. Timothy Barney Timothy Barney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2010) 13 (1): 151–154. https://doi.org/10.2307/41955596 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Barney; Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2010; 13 (1): 151–154. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41955596 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2010 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.