Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them int

The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising confli

Examines lynching, capital punishment, and torture to investigate how rhetoric and violence work together to sustain inhospitable spaces and create challenges f

Exposes how humanitarian discourses privilege certain children's lives and rights over others.

"The first book to situate early American experimental science in the context of a transatlantic public sphere, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders offers a view of