Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era (Routledge Research in Writing Studies)

By: Shannon Carter and Deborah Mutnick and Jessica Pauszek and Steve Parks

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780429889936
Related ISBNs:: 9780429469169, 9781138603103, 9781138603103
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/28/19
Copyrighted By:: Taylor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Language Arts, Communication, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Shannon Carter
Edited by:: Deborah Mutnick
Edited by:: Stephen Parks
Edited by:: Jessica Pauszek