Chapter 11 Tragic Responses to Whistleblowing a Tragedy: A Burkean Analysis of the Flint Water Crisis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter 1 Racing to (Dis)Own Whistleblowers and Protests: Theorizing Amongness in the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Democratic Agency 1
5. Chapter 2 Wrangling the Ructions: Major Ian Fishback, Ph.D. and His Whistleblowing Campaign 33
6. Chapter 3 Shooting Bullets and Frames per Second: Recording the Police as Whistleblowing 61
7. Chapter 4 Shifting Power to Seek Change: Kategoria as a Form of Rhetorical Leadership 83
8. Chapter 5 Whistleblower Rhetoric: Mistreatment of Migrant Children in US Detention Facilities 103
9. Chapter 6 “This Is an Information War”: Mediated and Rhetorical Contestations over the War in Northern Ethiopia 127
10. Chapter 7 “Read, Write, Execute”: Edward Snowden and the New History of the Whistleblower 153
11. Chapter 8 From Solidarity to Suspicion: The Case of Javier Esqueda 173
12. Chapter 9 Should Political Appointees Have Whistleblower Protection? The Case of Kevin Chmielewski 191
13. Chapter 10 Breaking the Blue: Whistleblowing on Those Tasked to Protect and Serve 213
14. Chapter 11 Tragic Responses to Whistleblowing a Tragedy: A Burkean Analysis of the Flint Water Crisis 235
15. Chapter 12 See Someone, Say Someone: Doxing Vision as Usurping the Rhetoric of Whistleblowing 259
16. Chapter 13 Ninja Girl, Blow the Whistle and Poison Arrows!: An Epideictic Function of Entertainment Film and Its Applications for Whistleblowing 281
17. List of Contributors 303
18. Index 309