Full Description
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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Introduction by Dr. Tharon W. Howard
Foreword by Dr. Miriam F. Williams
Prologue
Introduction
Section I: Laying the Conceptual Groundwork
Chapter 1: Oppression
Chapter 2: Justice
Section II: Rearticulating the 3Ps
Chapter 3: Positionality
Chapter 4: Privilege
Chapter 5: Power
Section III: Building Coalitions
Chapter 6: Coalitional Action
Chapter 7: Critiques and Responses
Afterword by Dr. Angela M. Haas
