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Debating Conviction: From Sincere Belief to Affective Atmosphere
- Author(s):
- rongreene (see profile) , Darrin Hicks
- Date:
- 2017
- Subject(s):
- Culture--Study and teaching, Teaching, Rhetoric
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- affect, Civic Education, Debate, Free Speech, Cultural studies, Pedagogy
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6Q23G
- Abstract:
- We return to our history of the "debating both sides controversy" in speech education (1954-1966) to explore how conviction is re-assigned from a first order belief to a second order conviction assigned to the value of debate as a democratic procedure. In so doing, we isolate how our interlocutors to our original article (Greene and Hicks 2005) elide the unique intellectual history we tell about debate as a technology of self fashioning as one with a history in "american exceptionalism" and in class formation of the knowledge class. Moreover, we pick up on how recent trends debate performance in intercollegiate debate tournaments isolate a racial critique of debate as a cultural technology. In bringing the history the debating both sides controversy to the present racial critique, we explore how debate becomes a site for generate an affective orientation to conviction as an intensive commitment to debate as a procedural technology of democracy. This affective atmosphere permeates the controversy over debating both sides.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter Show details
- Publisher:
- Penn State University Press
- Pub. Date:
- 2017
- Book Title:
- Speech and Debate as Civic Education
- Author/Editor:
- J. Michael Hogan, Jessica A. Kurr, Michael J. Bergmaier, Jeremy D. Johnson
- Chapter:
- 10
- Page Range:
- 149 - 162
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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