This book examines human-interest stories, unpacking from them violence inherent to neoliberalism, and considers if it is possible to find in these stories hints of people and labour that suggest other narratives.

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'Rachel Riedner constructs a piercing transnational feminist analysis of contemporary human-interest stories. The book's archive of the unsubstantial reveals the pervasive rhetorical force that draws on affective cultural scripts and is underwritten by a global capitalist political economy. Not only does Riedner brilliantly interrogate the violence of value encoded in the rhetoric of neoliberal inclusion; she offers a rich critical literacy to bring into crisis our most baleful contemporary settlements.' Keith P. Feldman, Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley, USA

'Rachel Riedner's Writing Neoliberal Values carefully places sticks in the grinding gears of late capitalism, searching for and finding the stories, personalities, and attachments that gum up cultural investment in the smooth violence of neoliberal discourse. Don't just read this book. Work with your colleagues, communities, and classrooms to continue writing this book.' Jay Dolmage, Associate Professor of English, University of Waterloo, Canada, Founding Editor, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, and author, Disability Rhetoric

'Through compelling rhetorical re-readings of human-interest stories, Riedner demonstrates the dangers of neoliberal associations of self-responsibility, inclusion, and freedom with economic values of privatization, free markets, and free trade. She very successfully develops protocols of reading what she calls this "affective, compromised, violent archive".' Elizabeth Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Reading and Composition, Michigan Technological University, USA

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George Washington University, USA

Rachel C. Riedner

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Rachel Riedner is Associate Professor of Writing and Women's Studies at The George Washington University, USA. Her first book, Democracies to Come: Rhetorical Action, Neoliberalism, and Communities of Resistance, was co-authored with Kevin Mahoney. Other publications include an award-winning essay in JAC, as well as publications in Literacy in Composition Studies and the Minnesota Review.

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Book Title: Writing Neoliberal Values
Book Subtitle: Rhetorical Connectivities and Globalized Capitalism
Authors: Rachel C. Riedner
Series Title: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137547774
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54776-7Published: 05 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54777-4Published: 05 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2947-5147
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5155
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 162
Topics: Political Science, Political Sociology, International Political Economy, Ethnicity Studies, Gender Studies, Political Theory

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Writing Value in a Neoliberal World: Necropolitics and Affective Rhetoric

Transnational Ghosts: Regimes of Friendship, Neoliberal Abandonment, and Discourses of Mourning

Lives of Infamous Women: Gender, Political Economy, Nation-State Power, and Persuasion in the Neoliberal World

Writing Women’s Capacities in Cape Town’s Urban Gardens: Gendered Survival Practices and Transnational Feminist Literacies

From Spectacle to Crisis of Feeling: Slow Violence, Affective Rhetoric, and the Case of Caster Semenya

Afterword: Writing Neoliberal Values: Literacies of Necropolitical Violence

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