Ecologies of Harm Rhetorics of Violence in the United Statesampampnbspexamines violent spectacles and their quotidian manifestations in order to better understand violences cultural work and persistence. Starting with the supposition that violence is communicative andmeant to send a messagebe it to deter to scare or to threatenMegan Eatman goes one step further to argue that violence needs to be understood on a deeper level as direct structural cultural and constitutive across modes a formulation that requires rethinking its rhetorical aims as less about conscious persuasion and more about the gradual shaping of public identity. ampampnbsp While Eatman looks to examples of violent spectacles to make her case lynching capital punishment and torture in the War on Terror it is in her analysis of more mundane responses to these forms of violence congressional debates court documents visual art and memorial performance where the key to her argument liesas she shows how circulating violence in these ways produces violent rhetorical ecologies that facilitate some modes of being while foreclosing others.ampampnbspThrough this ecological approachampampnbspEcologies of Harmampampnbspoffers a new understanding of the debates surrounding legacies of violenceampampnbspexamines how rhetoric and violence functionampampnbsptogetherampampnbspand explores implications of their entanglement for antiviolence work. ampampnbsp