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resent the scholar herself, as it is here: “Emplaced rhetoric assumes that...” (96). Perhaps these diffusions are an outcome of new materialist directions that expand what rhetoric is and who(/what?) its purveyors are. At the same time, however, I wonder how we locate analytic precision within this shifting semantic field. The bibliographic notes at the end of each chapter could have also more effectively consolidated theory. Almost every chapter includes endnotes with half a dozen citations stacked on each other without commentary (a helpful exception is Chapter 4, in which the notes do significant positioning work on rhetoric and place). While the citations are extensive, their dense formatting means that they are not likely to be as useful to would-be scholars, which is unfortunate given the book’s synthesizing role. Overall, Participatory Critical Rhetoric makes significant developments by providing numerous helpful heuristics for theorizing and carrying out field-based rhetorical work. It will be indispensable for scholars interested in critical rhetoric or in situ rhetorical analysis. It will also be helpful for scholars invested in activism, body rhetoric, affect, or rhetoric and place.