Rhetoric in Debt (Rsa Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric) - Softcover

Sharp-Hoskins, Kellie

 
9780271095295: Rhetoric in Debt (Rsa Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0271095296 ISBN 13: 9780271095295
Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

In recent years, household indebtedness in the United States reached its highest levels in history. From mortgages to student loans, from credit card bills to US deficit spending, debt is widespread and increasing. Drawing on scholarship from economics, accounting, and critical rhetoric and social theory, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins critiques debt not as an economic indicator or a tool of finance but as a cultural system. Through case studies of the student-loan crisis, medical debt, and the abuses of municipal bonds, Sharp-Hoskins reveals that debt is a rhetorical construct entangled in broader systems of wealth, rule, and race. Perhaps more than any other social marker or symbol, the concept of "debt" indicates differences between wealthy and poor, productive and lazy, secure and risky, worthy and unworthy. Tracking the emergence and work of debt across temporal and spatial scales reveals how it exacerbates vulnerabilities and inequities under the rhetorical cover of individual, moral, and volitional calculation and equivalency. A new perspective on a serious problem facing our society, Rhetoric in Debt not only reveals how debt organizes our social and cultural relations but also provides a new conceptual framework for a more equitable world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kellie Sharp-Hoskins is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication at New Mexico State University. She is coeditor of Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman, also published by Penn State University Press.

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Verlag
Pennsylvania State University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0271095296
ISBN 13 
9780271095295
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
206
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