Date of Award
1-1-2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences
First Advisor
Josh Hanan, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Christina Foust
Third Advisor
Bernadette M. Calafell
Keywords
Homo Oeconomicus, Materialism, Neoliberalism, Offshoring, Outsourcing
Abstract
The ubiquitous impact of the neoliberal economy on our everyday life leads to questions of rhetorical significance. This project strives to incorporate service labor experience as a source as well as an effect of rhetoric thereby embodying materialist notions of the body at the site of production. I explore neoliberal discourses through the phenomena of outsourcing and offshoring by interviewing service industry employees that have experienced job uncertainty within a Fortune 500 corporation. By studying narratives, this project explores how the material effects of rhetoric are able to determine discourses of power relating to production. Thus, this study questions the persuasive element of being a worker within the precarious and the flexible workspace. It also contends that rhetoric in this regard incorporates material effects upon the body of the worker. In essence, the materialist embodiment of neoliberal's immanence lies within rhetoric.
Publication Statement
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Rights Holder
Leslie Lynne Rossman
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
208 p.
Recommended Citation
Rossman, Leslie Lynne, "Creating Rhetorical Subjectivities: Negotiating the Precarity of the Homo Oeconomicus in the Neoliberal Workplace" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1240.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1240
Copyright date
2016
Discipline
Communication, Rhetoric, Economic Theory