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Publication Date
8-2017
Date of Final Oral Examination (Defense)
4-20-2017
Type of Culminating Activity
Thesis - Boise State University Access Only
Degree Title
Master of Arts in Communication
Department
Communication
Supervisory Committee Chair
erin d. mcclellan, Ph.D.
Supervisory Committee Member
Julie Lane, Ph.D.
Supervisory Committee Member
Kelly Rossetto, Ph.D.
Abstract
The Department of Homeland Security developed the Blue Campaign, helping audiences recognize victims or perpetrators of human trafficking. Bodies used in the campaign (re)present victims and perpetrators and make arguments, constitute meaning, and convey particular identities that are inevitably framed by particular assumptions. Using an embodied rhetorical analysis I look at the body as a discursive construction that can invoke responses and affect other bodies. I reveal assumptions bodies are framed by and examine how we understand some bodies as victims or perpetrators of human trafficking as opposed to others and how bodies constitute (im)possible ways to understand human trafficking.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18122/B2RM5J
Recommended Citation
Griffin, Kayla Dawn Marie, "Embodied Rhetoric and the Blue Campaign: On Human Trafficking Awareness" (2017). Boise State University Theses and Dissertations. 1299.
https://doi.org/10.18122/B2RM5J