Janet McIntosh
Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University
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Early in his campaign, Donald Trump boasted that 'I know words. I have the best words', yet despite these assurances his speech style has sown conflict even as it has powered his meteoric rise. If the Trump era feels like a political crisis to many, it is also a linguistic one. Trump has repeatedly alarmed people around the world, while exciting his fan-base with his unprecedented rhetorical style, shock-tweeting, and weaponized words. Using many detailed examples, this fascinating and highly topical book reveals how Trump's rallying cries, boasts, accusations, and mockery enlist many of his supporters into his alternate reality. From Trump's relationship to the truth, to his use of gesture, to the anti-immigrant tenor of his language, it illuminates the less obvious mechanisms by which language in the Trump era has widened divisions along lines of class, gender, race, international relations, and even the sense of truth itself.
Reviews
'An indispensable resource for anyone troubled by the polarizing and demagogic political discourse of the Trump era, this book illuminates many features of Trumpian rhetoric and show how its flagrant misrepresentations, fractured syntax, torrential flow, racist metaphors, and misogyny appeal to some people, co-opt others, and prove resistant to critique. If you hope to counter these forms of current political rhetoric, start by understanding how they work - and start here.'
Judith T. Irvine - Edward Sapir Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Michigan
'Donald Trump's version of making a speech is not only a source of surprise and disgust, but also, for many, confusion. Why does he talk this way? Is it on purpose? And is it contagious? Language in the Trump Era answers all of those questions and more about America's magnificently, manipulatively inarticulate Commander-in-Chief.'
John McWhorter - Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
'This excellent volume is a 'must-read‘ for scholars and students alike. The first comprehensive, very well researched and well-argued book which allows insight in to the 'Trump-phenomenon'; a phenomenon which dominates politics, media and everyday lives in the US and beyond.'
Ruth Wodak - Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University/University Vienna
“Janet McIntosh's book Unsettled: Denial and Belonging among White Kenyans is a major ethnographic achievement…far more than a contribution to the field of critical whiteness studies, Unsettled promises to have a long-lasting impact in fields as diverse as postcolonial African studies, sociolinguistics, and the anthropology of subjectivity…Unsettled demonstrates an extraordinary level of intellectual maturity and sophistication, and establishes a high standard for any anthropologist seeking to elucidate the connections between race, inequality and privilege.”
-2018 AES Senior Book Prize Committee.
“Richly nuanced, theoretically sophisticated, and utterly compelling. A major scholarly achievement.”
-Richard Schroeder, author of Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania.
“Janet McIntosh lifts the debate on belonging. Her vivid portrait shows how twisted memory does not necessarily undermine sincerity of feeling. Her notion of ‘structural oblivion’ and her magnificent demonstration of the plurality of whiteness offer keys to understanding the vicissitudes of belonging in the present-day world.”
-Peter Geschiere, author of The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion in Africa and Europe.
“A splendid book, one of the best in the new and growing literature on postcolonial whiteness and in whiteness studies generally.”
-Brett Shadle, author of The Souls of White Folk: White Settlers in Kenya, 1900–1920s.
(Book available on amazon)
(link:)
https://africasacountry.com/2020/07/an-ambivalent-sense-of-belonging
Endorsements/Reviews: “An impeccable study. It is work of the highest order, a meticulous analysis, and a mine of insights and information that will serve generations to come.” (David Parkin, University of Oxford) “It is extremely hard to do justice to this remarkable book, which is filled with excellent analysis and narratives.” (African Studies Review) “Very original…very skillful…likely to inspire many other anthropologists working on religion, [and] a ‘must read’ for anthropologists of religion in Africa.” (Islamic Africa) “Janet McIntosh's The Edge of Islam is one of the very best ethnographies of East Africa to emerge in the past ten years. . . . [T]hought-provoking, interesting, and original.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute) "[A]n exhilarating ethnography. . . [which] reconfigures our understanding of Islam on the Swahili coast.” (African Affairs) "[A book with] rich and wide-ranging ethnographic knowledge and sophisticated theoretical ambitions. . . provocative and analytically rigorous." (Journal of Religion in Africa) “[A] sophisticated discussion of theories of spirit possession, identity, ethnicity, hegemony and ideology. . . beautifully written in a precise, clear and engaging style, and of importance for anthropologists and political scientists as well as for students of religion.” (Leeds African Studies Bulletin) “McIntosh’s account has a sharpness of focus and forcefulness of approach that is an improvement over much that has been published on religion and values in this area. . . . [T]his is a book well worth reading. . . . [An] excellent study, a valuable contribution to our understanding of the East African coast.” (T. O. Beidelman, Anthropos) “The literature on ethnicity is desperate for a work like this.” (Brad Weiss, College of William and Mary) "[A] highly welcome contribution. This innovative and invigorating book provides invaluable insights to the highly complex interplay between religion and ethnicity." (African Studies Quarterly) “A very good book, which I would strongly recommend…sobering insight into tensions which are very real and current" (Justin Willis Journal of Islamic Studies) “The Edge of Islam deftly navigates questions of Islamic authority, including distinctions between scripturalism and bodily practice, virtuous inwardness and pragmatic communalism, rationalism and madness.” (American Anthropologist)
(Book available for browsing and purchase at above amazon url.)
Amazon link here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=best+of+medic+in+the+green+time&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss
Papers by Janet McIntosh
Early in his campaign, Donald Trump boasted that 'I know words. I have the best words', yet despite these assurances his speech style has sown conflict even as it has powered his meteoric rise. If the Trump era feels like a political crisis to many, it is also a linguistic one. Trump has repeatedly alarmed people around the world, while exciting his fan-base with his unprecedented rhetorical style, shock-tweeting, and weaponized words. Using many detailed examples, this fascinating and highly topical book reveals how Trump's rallying cries, boasts, accusations, and mockery enlist many of his supporters into his alternate reality. From Trump's relationship to the truth, to his use of gesture, to the anti-immigrant tenor of his language, it illuminates the less obvious mechanisms by which language in the Trump era has widened divisions along lines of class, gender, race, international relations, and even the sense of truth itself.
Reviews
'An indispensable resource for anyone troubled by the polarizing and demagogic political discourse of the Trump era, this book illuminates many features of Trumpian rhetoric and show how its flagrant misrepresentations, fractured syntax, torrential flow, racist metaphors, and misogyny appeal to some people, co-opt others, and prove resistant to critique. If you hope to counter these forms of current political rhetoric, start by understanding how they work - and start here.'
Judith T. Irvine - Edward Sapir Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Michigan
'Donald Trump's version of making a speech is not only a source of surprise and disgust, but also, for many, confusion. Why does he talk this way? Is it on purpose? And is it contagious? Language in the Trump Era answers all of those questions and more about America's magnificently, manipulatively inarticulate Commander-in-Chief.'
John McWhorter - Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
'This excellent volume is a 'must-read‘ for scholars and students alike. The first comprehensive, very well researched and well-argued book which allows insight in to the 'Trump-phenomenon'; a phenomenon which dominates politics, media and everyday lives in the US and beyond.'
Ruth Wodak - Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University/University Vienna
“Janet McIntosh's book Unsettled: Denial and Belonging among White Kenyans is a major ethnographic achievement…far more than a contribution to the field of critical whiteness studies, Unsettled promises to have a long-lasting impact in fields as diverse as postcolonial African studies, sociolinguistics, and the anthropology of subjectivity…Unsettled demonstrates an extraordinary level of intellectual maturity and sophistication, and establishes a high standard for any anthropologist seeking to elucidate the connections between race, inequality and privilege.”
-2018 AES Senior Book Prize Committee.
“Richly nuanced, theoretically sophisticated, and utterly compelling. A major scholarly achievement.”
-Richard Schroeder, author of Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania.
“Janet McIntosh lifts the debate on belonging. Her vivid portrait shows how twisted memory does not necessarily undermine sincerity of feeling. Her notion of ‘structural oblivion’ and her magnificent demonstration of the plurality of whiteness offer keys to understanding the vicissitudes of belonging in the present-day world.”
-Peter Geschiere, author of The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion in Africa and Europe.
“A splendid book, one of the best in the new and growing literature on postcolonial whiteness and in whiteness studies generally.”
-Brett Shadle, author of The Souls of White Folk: White Settlers in Kenya, 1900–1920s.
(Book available on amazon)
(link:)
https://africasacountry.com/2020/07/an-ambivalent-sense-of-belonging
Endorsements/Reviews: “An impeccable study. It is work of the highest order, a meticulous analysis, and a mine of insights and information that will serve generations to come.” (David Parkin, University of Oxford) “It is extremely hard to do justice to this remarkable book, which is filled with excellent analysis and narratives.” (African Studies Review) “Very original…very skillful…likely to inspire many other anthropologists working on religion, [and] a ‘must read’ for anthropologists of religion in Africa.” (Islamic Africa) “Janet McIntosh's The Edge of Islam is one of the very best ethnographies of East Africa to emerge in the past ten years. . . . [T]hought-provoking, interesting, and original.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute) "[A]n exhilarating ethnography. . . [which] reconfigures our understanding of Islam on the Swahili coast.” (African Affairs) "[A book with] rich and wide-ranging ethnographic knowledge and sophisticated theoretical ambitions. . . provocative and analytically rigorous." (Journal of Religion in Africa) “[A] sophisticated discussion of theories of spirit possession, identity, ethnicity, hegemony and ideology. . . beautifully written in a precise, clear and engaging style, and of importance for anthropologists and political scientists as well as for students of religion.” (Leeds African Studies Bulletin) “McIntosh’s account has a sharpness of focus and forcefulness of approach that is an improvement over much that has been published on religion and values in this area. . . . [T]his is a book well worth reading. . . . [An] excellent study, a valuable contribution to our understanding of the East African coast.” (T. O. Beidelman, Anthropos) “The literature on ethnicity is desperate for a work like this.” (Brad Weiss, College of William and Mary) "[A] highly welcome contribution. This innovative and invigorating book provides invaluable insights to the highly complex interplay between religion and ethnicity." (African Studies Quarterly) “A very good book, which I would strongly recommend…sobering insight into tensions which are very real and current" (Justin Willis Journal of Islamic Studies) “The Edge of Islam deftly navigates questions of Islamic authority, including distinctions between scripturalism and bodily practice, virtuous inwardness and pragmatic communalism, rationalism and madness.” (American Anthropologist)
(Book available for browsing and purchase at above amazon url.)
Amazon link here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=best+of+medic+in+the+green+time&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss