Introduction David W. Seitz Part I: Silence, Presence, and Absence Chapter 1: Speaking in Silence: Rhetoric, Rancière, and the Blank Sign Protests of 2022 Michael Vicaro Chapter 2: Vigils for Peace: Silent Presence as Political Action D. Graham Burnett Chapter 3: Embodying Absence: Silence and Death at ACT UP's 1992 Ashes Action Jeffrey B. Nagel Chapter 4: Silence as Political Engagement: Student-Led Silent Protests Advocating for LGBTQ+ Youth Kevin R. Meyer and Stephen K. Hunt Chapter 5: The Rhetoric of Silence as Embodiment: Georgia Prisoners' 2010 "Lockdown for Liberty" Nick J. Sciullo Part II: On Colin Kaepernick Chapter 6: Embodying Resistance: Situating Kaepernick's Performative Symbolic Resistance as an Emic Perspective Alicia K. Hatcher Chapter 7: The Silence and the Fury: Colin Kaepernick, Athletic Protest, and Noisy Affects Dafna Kaufman and Jaclyn Olson Chapter 8: "I Just Couldn't Be a Sellout": Understanding Rihanna's Absence during the 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show through Speech Acts Theory Julia C.
Richmond Part III: In Defense of Women's Rights Chapter 9: Silence and Commercial Sex Work: Performing Silence as Strategy, Resistance, and the Articulation of Alternative Perspectives Satarupa Dasgupta Chapter 10: Under Their Eyes: The Visuality of Handmaids as Resistance in Transnational Women's Rights Protests Annie Hui Chapter 11: The Woman, Life, Freedom Movement: Social Media Videos of Women Cutting Hair and Burning Hijabs and the Rhetoric of Silent Protest Nune Grigoryan Chapter 12: Red Card Qatar: Human Rights Protests at World Cup 2022 Megan O'Byrne Part IV: Silent Protest and the Digital Landscape Chapter 13: From Protest to Solidarity: How the Digital Era is Changing the Volume of Silence Jessica L. Neu Chapter 14: "Don't Mistake My Silence as Not Caring:" Discourses of Nonvoters on Twitter Alison N. Novak Chapter 15: Silent Protests in and for the AttentionSphere: A Rhetorical Methodology for Studying Attention David Landes Chapter 16: Silent Protest and Cruel Imitation in Hong Kong's "Umbrella Movement" Dominic J. Manthey and Keren Wang Index About the Contributors.