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WORK TITLE: Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age
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PSEUDONYM(S): Hasian, Marouf Arif Jr.
BIRTHDATE: 3/16/1958
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670 __ |a Legal memories and amnesias in America’s rhetorical culture, 2000: |b CIP t.p. (Marouf Hasian, Jr.)
670 __ |a Colonial legacies in post colonial contexts, 2002: |b CIP t.p. (Marouf A. Hasian, Jr.) data sheet (b. March 16, 1958)
670 __ |a The rhetorical invention of America’s national security state, 2015: |b ECIP t.p. (Marouf Hasain, Jr.)
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Born March 16, 1958.
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University of Utah, professor of communication.
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Contributor to periodicals, including the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and the Journal of Multicultural Discourses.
SIDELIGHTS
Marouf Hasian, Jr., is a professor of communication at the University of Utah, and he is an expert on rhetoric and communication, especially as applied in political contexts. His articles on related topics have appeared in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and the Journal of Multicultural Discourses. Hasian is also the author of over a dozen books, including The Rhetoric of Eugenics in Anglo-American Thought, The Rhetorical Invention of America’s National Security State, Forensic Rhetorics and Satellite Surveillance: The Visualization of War Crimes and Human Rights Violations, and Israel’s Military Operations in Gaza: Telegenic Lawfare and Warfare.
In The Rhetoric of Eugenics in Anglo-American Thought, Hasian eschews the political and social implications of eugenic theories and practices and instead focuses on the rhetorical constructs of eugenics itself. By focusing on argument patterns and dialectics, as well as the evolution of both, Hasian notes how the philosophy of eugenics gained traction in intellectual and scientific circles in the late 1800s. From there, the author traces rhetorical evolutions and variations in rhetoric as the subject of eugenics moved from its origins in the United Kingdom and then on to France, Germany, and Austria. Hasian then explores how arguments and rhetoric shifted yet again when articles on eugenics were disseminated in the United States. Based on these explorations, Hasian concludes that the topic of eugenics in each region was argued very differently, almost to the point of becoming a different topic entirely. In fact, Hasian writes that themes of eugenics in each region were shaped by each locality’s national and political concerns. Continental models (arguments that caught on in France, Germany, and Austria) were markedly different from American models, the author claims. Time periods also shaped the rhetoric, Hasian writes, as ideas fomented during the late 1800s in the United Kingdom were not widely discussed in the United States until the turn of the century.
Praising The Rhetoric of Eugenics in Anglo-American Thought in his online Journal of American History assessment, Sander L. Gilman remarked that “It is striking how eugenic arguments appear in arenas where one does not expect them and where the overt ideology of certain positions should not permit them. It is the power of such models that Hasian develops and that makes his book a valuable addition not only to the eugenics literature but also to the critical literature on the social study of science.”
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Journal of American History Online, https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com, (May 31, 2017), Sander L. Gilman, review of The Rhetoric of Eugenics in Anglo-American Thought.
University of Utah Faculty Web site, https://faculty.utah.edu/ (May 31, 2017).*
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Paliewicz, N. S., & Hasian, M., Jr. (2017, January). Popular Memory at Ground Zero: A Heterotopology of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Popular Communication, 15(1), 19-36. ttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2016.1261142. Published, 01/01/2017.
Hasian, M., Jr., and Muller, S. (forthcoming). Containing the power of child migrant imagery, the domestication of Aylan Kurdi’s public memories, and the Securitization of the EU’s migrant “crisis.” In Seen But Not Heart: Interdisciplinary perspectives On Child Migrants. Edited by Ryan J. Tomas and May Grace. Lexington Press. Accepted, 09/09/2016.
Hasian, M., Jr. and Muller, S. (forthcoming). The color of terrorism. In Whiteness: The Communication of Social Identity, by Thomas K. Nakayama, Dawn McIntosh, and Dreama Moon. Sage Publications. Invited. Accepted, 08/08/2016.
Hasian, M., Jr., and Muller, S. (forthcoming). Repatriation debates in peace and conflict studies and a post-colonial critique of the “last” of the Tasmanians. Edited Handbook on Conflict and Peace Communication, edited by Sudeshna Roy. Invited. Accepted, 06/06/2016.
Hasian, M., Jr., & Paliewicz, N. (forthcoming). Thanatopolitical spaces and symbolic counterterrorism at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Invited. Edited book by Thomas Nakayama and Yolanta Drzewiecka. Accepted, 01/11/2016.
Hasian, M., Jr. (2017, forthcoming). The diseased “terror tunnels” in Gaza, Israeli surveillance, and the autoimmunization of an illiberal democracy. Media Tropes, Invited. Accepted, 01/08/2016.
Hasian, M.A., M. Muller & J.A. Maldonado. (2017, forthcoming). Democratic Dissent and the Politics of Rescue during the 21st Century EU Migration “Crisis.” Javnost-The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture. Special Issue: Invited by Robert Ivie. Accepted, 01/06/2016.
Hasian, M., Jr. (2016, June). Untimely meditations: Praxis, critical intercultural studies, and memoricide. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 9(3), 268-271. Published, 01/06/2016.
Hasian, M, Jr. and Muller, S. (2016, May). Post-conflict initiatives, British Mau Mau compensation, and the mastering of colonial pasts. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 11(2), 164-180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2016.1182535 Hasian, M, Jr. and Muller, S. (2016, May). Post-conflict initiatives, British Mau Mau compensation, and the mastering of colonial pasts. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 11(2), 164-180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2016.1182535. Published, 01/05/2016.
A Postcolonial Critique of the Linde et al. v. Arab Bank, PLC “terrorism” Bank Cases, completed book submitted to Palgrave Macmillan for review, November, 2014. Published, 12/05/2015.
Tim McGirk, parrhesiastic rhetorc, and mass-mediated representations of Haditha. The Communication Review. Accepted, 12/10/2013.
Remembering the Responsibility to Protect (RP2) in 21st century human rights rhetoric. The Quarterly Journal of Spcceh, forthcoming. Accepted, 12/05/2013.
(forthcoming). Biopolitics and thanatopolitics at Guántanamo, and the Weapons of the weak in the lawfare over force-feeding. Law and Literature. Accepted, 10/11/2013.
Hasian, M., Jr., & Lawson, S. The Syrian Rebellion and the “First Social Media War. In Julie Dee and Susan J. Drucker, From Tahrir Square to Gezi Park: Social Networks as Facilitators of Social Movements. Bern: Peter Lang. Accepted, 08/08/2013.
Cultural Rhetorics of American Exceptionalism and the Bin Laden Raid. New York: Peter Lang Publications. Released, 06/06/2013.
American Exceptionalism and the bin laden Raid. Third World Quarterly, 33(10), 1803-1820. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2012.728317. Published, 10/2012.
Hasian, M., Jr., Anderson, C., and Wood, R. (forthcoming, 2011) Cinematic Representations and Cultural Critique: The Deracialization and Denationalization of the African Conflict Diamond Crises in Zwick's Blood Diamond. in Kent Ono and Michael Lacey, Critical Race Essays, Blackwells. In press, 02/22/2011.
Feighery, G., Hasian, M., Jr., and Rieke, R. (2011). The search for social justice and the presumption of innocence in the Duke University Lacrosse Case of 2006-2007 (pp. 258-272) In Cheney, G., May, S., & Munshi, D. (Eds).Handbook of Communication Ethics. Routledge. Published, 01/01/2011.
Hasian, M., Jr. (2011, forthcoming). Book Review of Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott, Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2010), for The Quarterly Journal of Speech. Accepted, 12/10/2010.
Hasian, M. Jr. (2010, Oct./Dec.) U.S. Military Perceptions of Victory in Iraq, the "Long War" Against Terrorism, and the Enduring Rhetorical Power of the 2006 Counterinsurgency Manual. Western Journal of Communication 74 (5), 570-587. Published, 10/10/2010.
Hasian, M., Jr. President Obama, the Freedom of Information Act, and the Suppression of the Military "Abuse" Photographs. Submitted to Free Speech Yearbook. Submitted, 08/22/2010.
Hasian, M., Jr., & Wood, R. (2010, March/April_ Critical museology, (post)colonial communication, and the mastering of traumatic pasts at the Royal Museum of Central Africa (RMCA). Western Journal of Communication, 74 (2), 128-149, [Lead essay]. In press, 04/10/2010.
Hasian, M., Jr. Critical intercultural communication, remembrances of George Washington Williams, and the Rediscovery of Leopold II's "Crimes against Humanity." in R. Halualani and T. Nakayama (Eds.), Critical intercultural communication studies handbook. Blackwells. In press, 2010.
Wood, R., Hall, D.H., & Hasian, M., Jr. Globalization, social justice movements, and the human genome diversity debates: A case study in health activism. In H. M. Zoller & M. J. Dutta (Eds.), Emerging perspectives in health communication: Meaning, culture, and power (pp. 431-446). New York Rutledge. Published, 2008.
Marouf Hasian Jr. is a professor of communication at the University of Utah. He is the author of Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures; Cultural Rhetorics of American Exceptionalism and the bin Laden Raid; Rhetorical Vectors of Memory in National and International Holocaust Trials; and In the Name of Necessity: Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties.
UAH professor Clarke Rountree publishes first book in Rhetoric, Law & the Humanities series
NOV 16, 2015 | Joyce Anderson-Maples
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Dr. Clarke Rountree, Chair and Professor of Communication Arts at UAH, has published his first book in the "Rhetoric, Law & the Humanities" series.
Michael Mercier | UAH
Rhetoric, Law, & the Humanities , a new book series edited by Dr. Clarke Rountree, Chair and Professor of Communication Arts at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), recently published its first book, Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age by Marouf A. Hasian, Jr.
The book series was created last year with The University of Alabama Press. Rhetoric, Law, & the Humanities, seeks to publish scholarship that examines law through a rhetorical lens.
"Dr. Hasian is the leading scholar in rhetoric and law, so I'm proud to have him open the series with this publication," said Rountree. Hasian is Professor of Communication at The University of Utah.
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According to The University of Alabama Press, "Hasian has written a landmark study, illuminating both the discursive and visual argumentative strategies that drone supporters and critics both rely on. He comprehensively reviews how advocates and detractors parse and re-contextualize drone images, casualty figures, government 'white papers,' NGO reports, documentaries, and blogs to support their points of view. He unpacks the ideological reflexes and assumptions behind these legal, ethical, and military arguments."
Rountree said books in the series will come from a variety of fields, among them communication studies, law, English, sociology, and other fields that use rhetoric as a perspective to study trials, appellate court decisions, constitutions, legal processes, judges and judicial decision making, the intersection between law and society, and the construction of law in popular media (television, film, and websites) as it shapes expectations about the law, its processes, and public memory.
Rountree noted that four other books are under review and several others are in the proposal stage.
About the Author
Marouf Hasian Jr. is a professor of communication at the University of Utah, USA. He is the author of Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures; Cultural Rhetorics of American Exceptionalism and the bin Laden Raid; Rhetorical Vectors of Memory in National and International Holocaust Trials; and In the Name of Necessity: Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties.
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The Rhetoric ofEugenics in Anglo-Amencan
Thought. By Marouf Arif Hasian Jr. (Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1996. xii, 265 pp.
$40.00, ISBN 0-8203-1771-3.)
The history of eugenics in the United States
has been wellmapped by scholars such as Daniel
Kevlesand, more recently, Dorothy Nelkin.
The existing histories have focused on the social
and cultural implications of the eugenics movement and its political impact on American
thought in the twentieth century. Indeed,
in Nelkin's most recent work, this approach
to the history of eugenics has been extended
to the Human Genome Project and the popular
reception of "eugenics" in contemporary
American culture. The present volume, a revised
interdisciplinary dissertation from the
University of Georgia published byBetty]ean
Craige in her University of Georgia Humanities
Center series on Science and the Humanities,
uses the existing historical and sociological
work as its point of departure. However,
Marouf Arif Hasian ]r. adds a truly new dimension
to the study of eugenics by focusing
exclusively on the "rhetoric" of eugenics from
the late nineteenth century through to the Genome
Project.
What isimportant about such an approach
is that it traces patterns of argument (rhetoric,
as the counterpart to dialectic) that evolved
within the "science"of eugenics during the late
nineteenth century.What isstriking about these
patterns of argument is how verydifferent they
turn out to be from the British / English originary
arguments and from their Continental
(French, German, Austrian) varieties. In one
of the very best books ever written on the history
of eugenics, Nancy Stepan examined the
seemingly related eugenic traditions within
the scienceof Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico. In her
account it becomes clear that the function of
the rhetoric of eugenics in each of these national
traditions isverydifferent one from the other.
Likewise, Hasian showshow the variouseugenic
themes in American culture are shaped by oftcompeting
regional and national interests in
the United States, and it is clear that the complex
"American" response is still again very
different from the Continental models.
Hasian covers a set of sub-discourses of
American eugenics. First he outlines the general
and completed discourses about eugenics
in American culture from 1900 to 1940. He
then examinesquestions of howgroups defined
by race (African Americans), gender (women),
religion (Catholics), and politics (socialistsand
others of the Left) used or countered eugenic
arguments. He concludes with a powerfulchapter
that provides us with the traces of this
older, pre-Shoah rhetoric in the Human Genome
Project.
This bookprovidesa powerfulservice to those
of us embroiled in the controversy about the
social criticism of science. It shows that the
question: good science or bad science? does
not work. There was much "bad" science in
the history of eugenics, but, as any molecular
biologist or geneticist will tell you, there was
alsomuch "good" science.Given the "fact" that
we are being presented with a "gene of the
week" that monocausally explains complex human
actionsand responsesfrom "sex"to "neurosis,"
it is clear that the division of science into
the "bad" (old, politicized, and disproved) and
the "good" (new,ideologicallyneutral, and cutting
edge, that is, fundable) provides a handy
way of separating the historical from the contemporary.
Hasian, however, shows that the
models of argument in both "bad" and "good"
science loop around one another, confusing
in theirfunction all aspects of "eugenics" (bad)
and "genetics" (good).
This approach stressesnot the disjunctures,
which in American thought are keyed to the
European experience of the Shoah, but rather
the continuities. It is striking how eugenic arguments
appear in arenas where one does not
expect them and where the overt ideology of
certain positions should not permit them. It
is the power of such models that Hasian develops
and that makes his book a valuable
addition not only to the eugenicsliterature but
also to the critical literature on the socialstudy
of science.
Sander L. Gilman
University ofChicago
Chicago, Illinois
The Rhetoric of Eugenics in Anglo-American Thought
Marouf A. Hasian Jr.
Reviews
"Adds a truly new dimension to the study of eugenics . . . This book provides a powerful service to those of us embroiled in the controversy about the social criticism of science. It shows that the question: good science or bad science? does not work . . . A valuable addition not only to the eugenics literature but also to the critical literature on the social study of science."
—Journal of American History
“Although attention has been given to the thought of the (in)famous proponents of eugenics, insufficient attention has been given to the way in which the rhetoric of eugenics has been received among the general public of the early twentieth century. Marouf Hasian’s accessible and easily read book fills this gap in the recent scholarship.”
—Research in Philosophy and Technology