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Technical Communication after the Social Justice Turn

Building Coalitions for Action

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ID8087834
AuthorsRebecca Walton (0000-0002-1171-1620), Kristen Moore (0000-0001-9239-5561), Kristen R Moore, Natasha Jones, Natasha N Jones (0000-0002-1713-828X)
Year2019
Publication date2019-05-16
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTechnical Communication after the Social Justice Turn (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780429198748
OpenAlexW4236079348
ISBN9780429198748
Open LibraryOL39355719M
LanguageEN
Citations received30

This is the first scholarly monograph marking the social justice turn in technical and professional communication (TPC). Social justice often draws attention to structural oppression, but to enact social justice as technical communicators, first, we must be able to trace daily practice to the oppressive structures it professionalizes, codifies, and normalizes. Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn moves readers from conceptual explorations of oppression and justice to a theoretical framework that allows for the concepts to be applied and implemented in a variety of practical contexts. It historicizes the recent social justice turn in TPC scholarship, models a social justice approach to building theories and heuristics, and presents scenarios that illustrate how to develop sustainable practices of activism and social justice. Its commitment to coalition building, inclusivity, and socially just practices of citation and activism will support scholars, teachers, and practitioners not only in understanding how the work of technical communication is often complicit in oppression but also in recognizing, revealing, rejecting, and replacing oppressive practices

Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Social justice · Sociology · Turn (biochemistry · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Communication · Communication of technical information · Composition & Creative Writing · Information technique · Justice sociale · Language and languages · Language Arts & Disciplines · Reference · Rhetoric · Social aspects · Technical writing · Writing Skills

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Highly citedNo

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