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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"kairotic"”.
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Kairotic Eclipses in Vaccine Legislation: How Overlapping Spheres of Discourse Create Ideal Public Policy Climates
… surrounding HBV, I argue that there exists a kairotic eclipse during which campaigns to increase vaccination uptake across the general public may be successful. This eclipsing necessitates the overlap of material, social, and political factors for widespread vaccination acceptance and uptake …
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The Afro-British Slave Narrative: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Kairos of Abolition
… perception that their actions were kairotic; they attempted to shape their own kairos by taking temporal events and reinterpreting them to construct a kairotic process that led to a perceived fulfillment: abolition. Thus, the dissertation examines the rhetorical strategies used by …
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Navigating ‘normal’: the writing lives of students on the spectrum
… I argue that my five participants demonstrate kairotic skill regarding appropriate times and places to disclose their autism diagnosis, and sophisticated rhetorical techniques for managing stigma and meeting their needs as learners in classrooms devoid of helpful accommodations. In pursuit of …
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Graffiti and Rhetoric
… movements and personal identity. Standards of kairotic speech for visual rhetoric are theorized. Understanding ethos as dwelling place reveals the underlying principles of Banksy’s success. Finally, using graffiti the rhetorical scholar is able to uncover how meaning becomes associated with …
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Global justice buzz : the visual rhetoric of the Beehive Design Collective
… and neoliberalism. The Bees find and create kairotic moments to effectively interrupt teleological narratives of homogenized globalization and �progress� on Western terms; further, they show these interruptions as real sites of community resistance, celebration and possibility. I conclude …
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Epideictic Space: Community, Memory, and Future Invention at Civil War Tourist Sites
… between space and audience, epideictic creates kairotic space and time by collapsing past, present, and future in order to create a narrative history with which the community can identify. This study traces rhetoric related to the Confederate flag, slavery, nationalism, and reconciliation …
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Career strategies in public relations: constructing an original tapestry paradigm.
… polyphonic sense making; and a non-linear, kairotic element of time. Construction of a new tapestry paradigm supports the identification of career strategies within public relations as being opportunistic, agentic and rhizomatic. This paradigm confronts the dominant professionalisation …
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Seeing the constitution as they see it: Presidential reconstitutions, executive power, and interbranch conflict
… opposition. He argued that the Constitution was kairotic, able to respond to the needs of the moment flexibly and creatively without loss of form or substance. Interbranch conflict has not abated, and the examples of Jackson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt remain powerful rhetorical resources for …
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Emerging genres, dangerous classifications: The kairos of digital composing policy
… with which to study these infrastructures’ kairotic effects upon programs’ digital composing practices.</p> <p>A case study of one particular writing policy infrastructure, the 2014 revision of the Council of Writing Program Administrators’ Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition (or …
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Something Wicked: Witches and Rhetorics of Resistance
… the contexts of Western hegemony. Occasioned by kairotic cultural events and the reinforcement of ideologies like those found in the Dobbs decision, QAnon conspiracy, and rise of Christian Nationalism, this project contends that evaluating the potential political power residing in witchery is …