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1. Ronald Walter Greene, “Spatial Materialism: Labor, Location, and Transnational Literacy,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 27, no. 1 (2010): 105–10.

2. Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Catalina de Onís, “Rethinking Rhetorical Field Methods on a Precarious Planet,” Communication Monographs, 85, no. 1 (2018): 103–22.

3. J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York: New York University Press, 2005), 6.

4. Phaedra C. Pezzullo, “Unearthing the Marvelous: Environmental Imprints on Rhetorical Criticism,” Review of Communication 16, no. 1 (2016): 27.

5. Halberstam, 6.

6. These include, but are not limited to: Daniel C. Brouwer, “Counterpublicity and Corporeality in HIV/AIDS Zines,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 22, no. 5 (2005): 351–71; Daniel C. Brouwer and Adela C. Licona, “Trans(affective)mediation: Feeling Our Way from Paper to Digitized Zines and Back Again,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 33, no. 1 (2016): 70–83; Karma Chávez, Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013), esp. chapter 3; Erin Rand, “An Appetite for Activism: The Lesbian Avengers and the Queer Politics of Visibility,” Women’s Studies in Communication 36, no. 2 (2013): 121–41; Isaac West, Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law (New York: New York University Press, 2013).

7. Doreen Massey, Space, Place and Gender (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), 3.

8. Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, Tendencies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993), xii.

9. Kenneth Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives (Berkley: University of California Press, 1969); Joshua Gunn, “For the Love of Rhetoric, with Continual Reference to Kenny and Dolly,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 94, no. 2 (2008): 139–43.

10. Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 1.

11. This literature is quite large. Exemplary work includes: Raka Shome, “Space Matters: The Power and Practice of Space,” Communication Theory 13, (2003): 39–56; Lisa A. Flores, “Creating Discursive Space Through a Rhetoric of Difference: Chicana Feminists Craft a Homeland,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 82, no. 2 (1996): 142–56; Ronald Walter Greene and Kevin Douglas Kuswa, “‘From the Arab Spring to Athens, From Occupy Wall Street to Moscow’: Regional Accents and the Rhetorical Cartography of Power,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 42. no. 3 (2012): 271–88; Carlie S. Woods, Joshua P. Ewalt, and Sara J. Baker, “A Matter of Regionalism: Remembering Brandon Teena and Willa Cather at the Nebraska History Museum,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 99, no. 3 (2013): 341–63; Sara C. VanderHaagen and Angela G. Ray, “A Pilgrim-Critic at Places of Public Memory: Anna Dickinson's Southern Tour of 1875,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 100, no. 3 (2014): 348–74; Ronald Walter Greene, “Another Materialist Rhetoric,” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15, no. 1 (1998): 21–40; Joan Faber McAlister, “Collecting the Gaze: Memory, Agency, and Kinship in the Women,s Jail Museum, Johannesburg,” Women’s Studies in Communication 36, no. 1 (2013): 1–27; Faber McAlister, “Domesticating Citizenship: The Kairotopics of America's Post-9/11 Home Makeover,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 27, no. 1 (2010): 84–104; Danielle Endres and Senda-Cook, “Location Matters: The Rhetoric of Place in Protest,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 97, no. 3 (2011): 257–82; Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, Brian L. Ott, ed., Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010); Armond R. Towns, “Rebels of the Underground: Media, Orality, and the Routes of Black Emancipation,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 13, no. 2 (2016): 184–97; Kundai Chirindo, “Rhetorical Places: From Classical Topologies to Prospects for Post-Westphalian Spatialities,” Women’s Studies in Communication 39, n. 2 (2016): 127–31; Faber McAlister, “Ten Propositions for Communication Scholars Studying Space and Place,” Women’s Studies in Communication 39, no. 2 (2016): 113–21; Dave Tell, “The Meanings of Kansas: Rhetoric, Regions, and Counter Regions,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 42, no. 3 (2012): 214–32.

12. Raymie E. McKerrow, “Space and Time in the Postmodern Polity,” Western Journal of Communication 63, no. 3 (1999): 272.

13. Faber McAlister, “Domesticating Citizenship,” 87.

14. Heather Ashley Hayes, Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars (London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 166.

15. McAlister, “Domesticating Citizenship,” 87.

16. Massey, Space, Place, and Gender, 146ff.

17. See Bryan J. McCann, “Contesting the Mark of Criminality: Race, Place, and the Prerogative of Violence in N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 29, no. 5 (2012): 367–386; see also Rashad Shabazz, Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015); Katherine McKittrick, Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006); Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Berkley: University of California Press, 2007).

18. Mishuana Goeman, Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2013); Tiara Na’puti, “From Guåhan and Back: Navigating a ‘Both/Neither’ Analytic for Rhetorical Field Methods,” in Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), 56–71.

19. For example, see Karma Chávez, “Remapping Latinidad: A Performance Cartography of Latina/o Identity in Rural Nebraska,” Text and Performance Quarterly 29, no. 2 (2009): 165–82; E. Cram, “Feeling Cartography,” Women’s Studies in Communication 39, no. 2 (2016): 141–46.

20. Ahmed, 6.

21. Ahmed, 15.

22. Sedgewick, xii; See also Halberstam, 11.

23. Ahmed, 14.

24. Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, “Sex in Public,” Critical Inquiry 24, no. 2 (1998): 558.

25. For example, John D’Emilio’s Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States 1940–1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983) crafted a definitive analysis of the national homophile movement in the post-war United States. His historical account created a foundational model for ensuing studies of gay public cultures and activism, particularly by delineating mechanisms of movement mobilization that account for shifts between the “invisibility” of the pre-war period to “visibilities” constituted by evolutionary shifts after Stonewall. Almost ten years after the publication of Sexual Politics, George Chauncey’s Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890–1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994), would counter the claim that the post-war era marked a turning point in visibility, drawing attention instead to patterns of association and style that would come to mark a definitively gay world located in New York.

26. Kath Weston, “Get Thee to a Big City: Sexual Imaginary and the Great Gay Migration,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2, no. 3 (1995): 255.

27. Weston, 257.

28. Halberstam, 36. Scott Herring nuances metronormativity as more than imagination through six rhetorical dimensions: narratological, racial, socioeconomic, temporal, epistemological, and aesthetic. See: Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 15–16. E. Cram complicates these conventions further through political emotion. See: “(Dis)locating Queer Citizenship: Imaging Rurality in Matthew Shepard’s Memory,” in Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies, ed. Mary L. Gray, Colin R. Johnson, Brian Gilley (New York: New York University Press, 2016), 270–71.

29. Karen Tongson, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (New York: New York University Press, 2011), 2.

30. Tongson, 15.

31. Greg Dickinson, Suburban Dreams: Imagining and Building the Good Life (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015); Joan Faber McAlister, “Unsafe Houses: The Narrative Inversion of Suburban Morality in Popular Film,” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 4, no. 1 (2008); Faber McAlister, “Good Neighbors: Covenantal Rhetoric, Moral Aesthetics, and the Resurfacing of Identity Politics,” Howard Journal of Communications 21, no. 3 (2010): 273–93; Faber McAlister, “Domesticating Citizenship.”

32. Tongson, 17.

33. Tongson, 12.

34. Tongson, 33.

35. Tongson, 103.

36. Tongson, 118.

37. See, for example Ara Wilson, “The Infrastructure of Intimacy,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41, no. 2 (2016): 247–80.

38. Cram, “Feeling Cartography,” 145.

39. Marlon Bailey, Butch Queen Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013), 25.

40. See Dwight Conquergood, “Ethnography, Rhetoric, and Performance,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 78, no. 1 (1992): 80–97; Conquergood, “Rethinking Ethnography: Towards a Critical Cultural Politics,” Communication Monographs 58, no. 2 (1991): 179–94.

41. Bailey, 22.

42. See for example, Erin Rand, Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014); Isaac West, “Debbie Mayne’s Trans/scripts: Performative Repertoires in Law and Everyday Life,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 5, no. 2 (2008): 245–63; West, Transforming Citizenships.

43. Ronald Walter Greene, “Rhetoric and Capitalism: Rhetorical Agency as Communicative Labor,” Philosophy & Rhetoric 37, no. 3 (2004): 188–206.

44. Bailey, 45.

45. Bailey, 89.

46. Bailey, 125.

47. Bailey.

48. Bailey, 180–181.

49. Bailey, 184.

50. Armond R. Townes, “Geographies of Pain: #SayHerName and the Fear of Black Women’s Mobility,” Women’s Studies in Communication 39, (2016): 122–26.

51. Doreen Massey, “A Global Sense of Place,” Marxism Today (1991): 24–29.

52. Christina B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013), 4.

53. Herring, Another Country.

54. Hanhardt, 11.

55. Hanhardt, 16.

56. Hanhardt, 18.

57. Hanhardt, 9.

58. On examples of “rhetorical cartography,” see: Greene and Kuswa, “Regional Accents and the Rhetorical Cartography of Power;” Leslie J. Harris, “Rhetorical Mobilities and the City: The White Slavery Controversy and Racialized Protection of Women in the U.S.,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 104, no. 1 (2018): 22–46.

59. Hanhardt, 40–42.

60. Hanhardt, 82.

61. Hanhardt, 105.

62. Hanhardt, 144.

63. Hanhardt, 187.

64. See Mary L. Gray as an example of visibility as an infrastructure: Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (New York: New York University Press, 2009).

65. Ahmed, 8.

66. Neil Smith, “Homeless/global: scaling places,” in Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures, Global Change, eds. Jon Bird, Barry Curtis, Tim Putnam, George Robertson, and Lisa Tickner (London, UK: Routledge, 1993), 87–119; Smith, “Contours of a Spatialized Politics: Homeless Vehicles and the Production of Geographic Scale,” Social Text 33 (1992): 54–81; Linda McDowell, Gender, Identity, and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999).

67. See for example, Gregory Clark, Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004).