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Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era
calls on the field of writing studies to take up a necessary agenda
of social and economic change in its classrooms, its scholarship,
and its communities to challenge the rise of neoliberalism and
right-wing nationalism. Grown out of an extended national dialogue
among public intellectuals, academic scholars, and writing
teachers, collectively known as the Writing Democracy project, the
book creates a strategic roadmap for how to reclaim the progressive
and political possibilities of our field in response to the
"twilight of neoliberalism" (Cox and Nilsen), ascendant right-wing
nationalism at home (Trump) and abroad (Le Pen, Golden Dawn, UKIP),
and hopeful radical uprisings (Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall
Street, Arab Spring). As such, the book tracks the emergence of a
renewed left wing in rhetoric and activism post-2008, suggests how
our work as teachers, scholars, and administrators can bring this
new progressive framework into our institutions, and then moves
outward to our role in activist campaigns that are reshaping public
debate. Part history, part theory, this book will be an essential
read for faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate
students in composition and rhetoric and related fields focused on
progressive pedagogy, university-community partnerships, and
politics.
Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era
calls on the field of writing studies to take up a necessary agenda
of social and economic change in its classrooms, its scholarship,
and its communities to challenge the rise of neoliberalism and
right-wing nationalism. Grown out of an extended national dialogue
among public intellectuals, academic scholars, and writing
teachers, collectively known as the Writing Democracy project, the
book creates a strategic roadmap for how to reclaim the progressive
and political possibilities of our field in response to the
"twilight of neoliberalism" (Cox and Nilsen), ascendant right-wing
nationalism at home (Trump) and abroad (Le Pen, Golden Dawn, UKIP),
and hopeful radical uprisings (Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall
Street, Arab Spring). As such, the book tracks the emergence of a
renewed left wing in rhetoric and activism post-2008, suggests how
our work as teachers, scholars, and administrators can bring this
new progressive framework into our institutions, and then moves
outward to our role in activist campaigns that are reshaping public
debate. Part history, part theory, this book will be an essential
read for faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate
students in composition and rhetoric and related fields focused on
progressive pedagogy, university-community partnerships, and
politics.
Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community,
diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing
longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that
both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic.
Engagement functions as a gloss for these shifts-addressing more
expansive understandings of where, how, and with whom we research,
teach, and partner. This book examines these shifts, locating them
within socio-economic trends within and beyond the higher
educational landscape, with particular focus on how they have been
enacted within the diverse subfields of writing studies. In so
doing, this book provides concrete models for enacting these new
responsive practices, thereby encouraging scholars to examine how
they can facilitate writing for social action through taking
positions, building relationships, and crossing boundaries.
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