Forum: Border Rhetorics

ABSTRACT

In this introduction to our Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies forum titled “Border Rhetorics,” we first and foremost pay tribute to the life and work of the late Dr. D. Robert DeChaine. His work inspired a generation of scholars to take up the call to study the impacts of and the opportunities within border rhetorics. Then, we lay out a renewed vision for the study border rhetorics in the field of communication studies that grapples with today’s material, geopolitical, economic, and personal challenges imposed by bordering logics.

KEYWORDS:

• Border rhetoric
• D. Robert DeChaine
• "fence logic"
• nationalism
• communication studies

Notes

1 D. Robert DeChaine, ed., Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US–Mexico Frontier (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2012).

2 Walter D. Mignolo “DELINKING: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of De-coloniality,” Cultural Studies 21, no. 2–3 (2007): 453.

3 Lorenzo Veracini, Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (London: Palgrave Press, 2010).