<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<div class="gmail-_5pbx gmail-userContent gmail-_3576" id="gmail-js_2"><p>The<i>
Present Tense</i> editors are pleased to announce the release of<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/editorial/volume-8-2-contested-publics/"> volume 8, issue 2</a>. Many thanks to our authors, reviewers, and editors. This tenth- anniversary
issue includes:</p>
<p>Johanna Phelps’ article “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/common-rule-vulnerabilities-practices-pedagogies-and-effective-public-deliberative-rhetoric/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Common Rule Vulnerabilities: Practices, Pedagogies, and Effective Public Deliberative Rhetoric</a>”
considers the federal policy that governs research with human
participants at federally funded organizations, and explains how
“Public comment on the proposed revision changed the shape of the final
policy to ensure that individuals with physical disabilities are better
able to advocate for their own autonomy.” </p>
<p>Jordan Frith’s “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/pushing-back-on-the-rhetoric-of-real-life/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pushing Back on the Rhetoric of “Real” Life</a>”
tackles a different issue — that of how the phrase “in real life” and
asks our fields to “interrogate the seemingly mundane terms we use when
we talk about online life.”</p>
<p>In “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/a-rhetoric-of-心-heart-and-liberal-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Rhetoric of 心 (Heart) and Liberal Democracy</a>,”
Tyler Carter argues that Chinese word 心 (xīn), commonly translated as
“heart,” “challenges the epistemological divides present in American
and, more broadly, Western Liberal Democracies and can also be seen at
work in the recent emergence of American identity politics.”</p>
<p>Jenna Vinson and Clare Daniel’s “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/power-to-decide-who-should-get-pregnant-a-feminist-rhetorical-analysis-of-neoliberal-visions-of-reproductive-justice/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Power to Decide” Who Should Get Pregnant: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Neoliberal Visions of Reproductive Justice</a>”
engage in a “feminist rhetorical analysis that entails critically
interrogating how audiences are prompted to accept particular ways of
knowing or believing that sustain systems of domination related to
reproduction.”</p>
<p>Rich Shivener’s “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/pressurized-rhetorical-bodies-student-athletes-between-feeling-rules-and-affective-publics/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pressurized Rhetorical Bodies: Student-Athletes between Feeling Rules and Affective Publics</a>”
analyzes student-athletes’ rhetorical activity by examining a
university handbook for student-athlete decorum. He argues that it
“chills student-athletes’ negative talk and enacts what Arlie Hochschild
and Adia Wingfield define as feeling rules.”</p>
<p>In “<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/the-law-abiding-citizen-as-ideobody-2/" target="_blank">The Law-Abiding Citizen as Ideobody</a>,”
Dana Comi interrogates the power of the concept of a “law-abiding
citizen” and explores how the term “ideobody” was used and abused during
a committee hearing on House Bill 2074 (HB-2074). </p>
<p>Brian Bailie’s “<a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/so-richard-spencer-is-coming-to-your-campus-how-he-was-allowed-on-and-how-you-can-confront-him/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">So, Richard Spencer Is Coming to Your Campus. How He Was Allowed on, and How You Can Confront Him</a>”
considers the intersections of fee speech absolutism and economics in
confrontations over highly contested speakers, and suggests how to
“better represent the values hoped for on university campuses.” </p>
<p><a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/book-review-dolmage-estreich-and-yergeau/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Daniel Kenzie reviews three books</a>: Jay Dolmage’s <em>Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability</em> (2018), Melanie Yergeau’s <em>Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness</em> (2018), and George Estreich’s <em>Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves</em> (2019).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/book-review-mifsuds-rhetoric-and-the-gift/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Matthew Miller reviews</a> Mari Lee Mifsud’s <em>Rhetoric and the Gift: Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Contemporary Communication</em> (2015).</p>
<p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/book-review-holmes-where-the-sacred-and-secular-harmonize/" target="_blank">Katie W. Powell reviews</a> David Holmes’ <em>Where
the Sacred and the Secular Harmonize: Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric
and the Prophetic Legacy of the Civil Rights Movements</em> (2017). </p>
<p>Thanks!<br></p><p>Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Managing Editor<br>Megan Schoen, Managing Editor<br>Caitlan Spronk, Technical Editor<br>Shreelina Ghosh, Multimedia Editor<br>Matt Cox, Annotated Bibliography Editor<br>Don Unger, Social Media Editor<br>Ryan Skinnell, Review Editor<br>Joshua Prenosil, Business Editor<br>Jessica E. Clements, Style Editor<br>Cristyn L. Elder, Style Editor<br>John Williford, Design Editor</p>
</div>
</div></div>