David W. Seitz is associate professor of communication at Penn State Mont Alto.

• IntroductionDavid W. SeitzPart I: Silence, Presence, and AbsenceChapter 1: Speaking in Silence: Rhetoric, Rancière, and the Blank Sign Protests of 2022Michael VicaroChapter 2: Vigils for Peace: Silent Presence as Political ActionD. Graham BurnettChapter 3: Embodying Absence: Silence and Death at ACT UP’s 1992 Ashes ActionJeffrey B. NagelChapter 4: Silence as Political Engagement: Student-Led Silent Protests Advocating for LGBTQ+ YouthKevin R. Meyer and Stephen K. HuntChapter 5: The Rhetoric of Silence as Embodiment: Georgia Prisoners’ 2010 “Lockdown for Liberty”Nick J. SciulloPart II: On Colin KaepernickChapter 6: Embodying Resistance: Situating Kaepernick’s Performative Symbolic Resistance as an Emic PerspectiveAlicia K. HatcherChapter 7: The Silence and the Fury: Colin Kaepernick, Athletic Protest, and Noisy AffectsDafna Kaufman and Jaclyn OlsonChapter 8: “I Just Couldn’t Be a Sellout”: Understanding Rihanna’s Absence during the 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show through Speech Acts TheoryJulia C. RichmondPart III: In Defense of Women’s RightsChapter 9: Silence and Commercial Sex Work: Performing Silence as Strategy, Resistance, and the Articulation of Alternative PerspectivesSatarupa DasguptaChapter 10: Under Their Eyes: The Visuality of Handmaids as Resistance in Transnational Women’s Rights ProtestsAnnie HuiChapter 11: The Woman, Life, Freedom Movement: Social Media Videos of Women Cutting Hair and Burning Hijabs and the Rhetoric of Silent ProtestNune GrigoryanChapter 12: Red Card Qatar: Human Rights Protests at World Cup 2022Megan O’ByrnePart IV: Silent Protest and the Digital LandscapeChapter 13: From Protest to Solidarity: How the Digital Era is Changing the Volume of SilenceJessica L. NeuChapter 14: “Don’t Mistake My Silence as Not Caring:” Discourses of Nonvoters on TwitterAlison N. NovakChapter 15: Silent Protests in and for the AttentionSphere: A Rhetorical Methodology for Studying AttentionDavid LandesChapter 16: Silent Protest and Cruel Imitation in Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Movement”Dominic J. Manthey and Keren WangIndexAbout the Contributors

Quiet Defiance: A Rhetoric Silent Protest is a thought-provoking collection, offering insight into forms of silent resistance that range from blank signs to prison strikes to nonvoting. Individual chapters offer fresh perspective on these and other cases. As a whole, the collection takes seriously and engages meaningfully with the scholarly traditions around each of its key terms, rhetoric, silence, and protest, and will be an invaluable resource for scholars interested in these areas.