Dissent, Discourse, and Democracy: Whistleblowers as Sites of Political Contestation

Dissent, Discourse, and Democracy theorizes abstruction analysis as a method of critical rhetorical inquiry and employs it in the evaluation of government whistleblower discourses. Guitar reveals how whistleblowing, a tool of dissent within democracy, has been systematically constrained within the public forum and weaponized for statist interests.

Joshua Guitar is assistant professor of communication at Young Harris College, Georgia.