{"product_id":"sovereign-settler-leaker-lie-forms-of-the-secret-in-us-political-rhetoric-9780814259726","title":"Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie: Forms of the Secret in US Political Rhetoric","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie, \u003c\/i\u003e Atilla Hallsby argues that secrets play a pivotal role in organizing political discourse in the United States. Hallsby takes up contemporary case studies-ranging from the Valerie Plame scandal during the George W. Bush presidency, to the use of Saul Alinsky's name as a partisan codeword for politicizing Obama's Blackness, to Chelsea Manning's public naming and outing-to show how dramatic revelations increasingly fail to produce meaningful change and instead reproduce entrenched racial, gendered, and colonial hierarchies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The core feature of these interlinked moments of crisis is the secret: a rhetorical patterning of political life organized by specific forms, each one lending a familiar shape to the shadows of American empire. These forms, theorized here as tropes, connect decades of secrets, linking the George W. Bush administration's War on Terror to the Trump-era reemergence of \"deep state\" conspiracy theories. As an extension of secrecy and surveillance studies, and with the aim of attaining a more accountable and just form of US governmentality, \u003ci\u003eSovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie\u003c\/i\u003e explains how still-unfolding political realities in the United States emerged, transformed, and regenerate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAtilla Hallsby is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eReading Rhetorical Theory: Speech, Representation, and Power.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197407621394,"sku":"9780814259726","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8448bc32-8038-43a9-8990-25ab65f8b9b1.jpg?v=1776167235","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sovereign-settler-leaker-lie-forms-of-the-secret-in-us-political-rhetoric-9780814259726","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}