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refreshingly optimistic change in knowledge practices of IR and communication alike.
Beer and Hariman are perhaps too enthusiastic about appealing to the insider's
perspective to truly allow for the possibility for an escape from realist patterns of
disciplinary authority, even considering their endorsement of ongoing "kritik" (359) of
developing practices. They provide us a large, well placed interdisciplinary rock to dive
into the cool deep waters of a new approach to rhetorical criticism.
Fraser would criticize Beer and Hariman's model as paying only lip service to
genuine resistance and as still maintaining a strong separation between affairs considered
public and those relegated to a murky private realm. Indeed, it seems as if in some ways,
Beer and Hariman's model for strategic thought is at least expanded, and in some ways
confounded, by feminist epistemology. So we will accept the first two layers of the
pyramid with the caveat that they represent a prominent world-view, but certainly not the
only or most explanatory view for both the primitive and control situations. This study
disagrees, however, with Beer and Hariman's assertion that those points are logical
starting places for criticism. Indeed, criticism can emanate from many spots within
knowledge structures. All that is necessary is that some "subaltern" publics (Fraser 57)
develop around changing principles and procedures and we work toward an
understanding of their numerous forms of agency and any means for its expression. In
studying those new identities we unveil the interactions they have with established
patterns of authority in late capitalist societies (Habermas 105; Willard, Perspectives on
Argumentation 356; Fraser 61), locate sites of meaning where conventional discourse
would have us remain silent (Beer and Hariman 345; Milliken and Sylvan 330), and find
new argumentative possibilities in the nexus between personal/private and civic/public15
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Mueller, Eric. The Terministic Filter of Security: Realism, Feminism and International Relations Theory, thesis, December 2001; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3040/m1/18/: accessed May 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .