Divine Narkotey Aboagye

I am Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric and political culture at the University of Maryland. I consider myself a critical decolonial rhetorical scholar studying global and U.S. political discourse, especially regarding science and technology, ecology and the Anthropocene, the U.S. presidency, political economy, international institutions, activism, and media & contemporary controversies. My research falls under three conceptual umbrellas. First, my research explores the broader articulation of technology in U.S. political discourse. Here, I trace the configuration and constitution of what I conceptualize as “the technological imaginary” in U.S. geopolitical rhetoric across three periods—World War II, the Cold War, and the U.S. Middle Eastern Wars (War on Terror). Aside from my dissertation, I trace discourses on emerging technologies and challenges, ecological/environmental rhetoric, and the future of U.S. science and technology discourses. My ongoing work includes Issues in Technological (In)Justice, Greening Technologies and Anthropocenic Violence in the EU, and the Poetics of Emerging Technologies. My second area concerns issues in political economy, rhetoric of political institutions, and international law. I examine how these institutions respond to challenges of inequality, their governance mechanisms, and their exercise of power. I explore how the institutional practices further shape conversations about national sovereignty, necropolitics, and empire. My third area concerns the rhetoric of advocacy, race and politics, and the rhetorics of memory across global contexts. My research is broadly guided by a spirit of interdisciplinarity. Hence, my work integrates rhetorical theory with science and technology studies, international politics, critical theory, and decolonial and postcolonial thought. I take this approach to my research because of my commitment to a vision of global justice and peace. I received Top Paper Awards from the National Communication Association and Central States Communication Association.