Disturbing Argument

Introduction: Disturbing Argument Catherine Helen Palczewski   Keynote Address Challenging Communities: A Perspective About, From, and By Argumentation Carol Winkler  Spotlight Panel Introduction: Perspectives on Argument Over Fiscal Policy  1. Economic Rationality, Twenty-First Century Style: A Critical Examination of Its Realism, Pragmatic Value, and Ethical Consequences Dennis S. Gouran  2. Informal Logic to the Rescue? Politics and Logic in U.S. Fiscal Debates Leo Groarke  3. Obama on the Affirmative: Sequester Arguments as Policy Debate Sarah T. Partlow-Lefevre  4. The Liberal Public Sphere and the Debt Ceiling Crisis Robert C. Rowland  5. Argumentation from Expert Opinion in the 2011 U.S. Debt Ceiling Debate Jean H. M. Wagemans  Director’s Choice Panel: Playing at and Disturbing the Boundaries of Argument  6. Arguing for Emptiness: Community in the Debate Over Rhetoric and Love Matthew Bost  7. The Willing Choice of Farm Labor in the UFW "Take Our Jobs" Campaign Lisa A. Flores  8. Yarn Bombing and Argument by Aesthetic Appropriation Leslie A. Hahner  9. Arguing Sideways: The 1491s’ I’m an Indian Too Mary E. Stuckey  Body and Visual Argument  10. Toned Arms or Big Butt? Michelle Obama’s Disturbed Notions of Body, Race, Gender, and Advocacy as Let’s Move! Spokesperson Ruth J. Beerman  11. The Progenic Trauma Tattoo as Resignification: Auschwitz 157622, A-15510, 4559, . . . Linda Diane Horwitz, Daniel C. Brouwer  12. Smackdown! Michelle v. Oprah: Disturbing Pleasures of the Black Catfight Joan Faber McAlister, Denise Oles-Acevedo  13. Starving to Live: Self-Mutilation as Public Argument in the Colombian Hunger Strikes Ryan Erik McGeough, Danielle Dick McGeough  14. Disturbances to Certaint