Active Voices
Composing a Rhetoric for Social Movements
1st Edition
Published on 2. July 2010
260 pages
978-1-4384-2643-3 (ISBN)
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Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.
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Sharon McKenzie Stevens is Lecturer in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the author of A Place for Dialogue: Language, Land Use, and Politics in Southern Arizona. Patricia M. Malesh is Assistant Professor of Communication and Associate Director for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Content
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Active Voices
Patricia Malesh and Sharon McKenzie Stevens
PART I A New Rhetoric for Social Change:Theories
2. Vernacular Rhetoric and Social Movements: Performances of Resistance in the Rhetoric of the Everyday
Gerard A. Hauser and erin daina mcclellan
3. Dreaming to Change Our Situation: Reconfiguring the Exigence for Student Writing
Sharon McKenzie Stevens
PART II Public Rhetorics: Analyses
4. Disorderly Women: Appropriating the Power Tools in Civic Discourses
Moira K. Amado-Miller
5. The Progressive Education Movement: A Case Study in Coalition Politics
Brian Jackson and Thomas P. Miller
6. Giving Voice to a Movement: Mills's "Letter to the New Left" and the Potential of History
Thomas Rosteck
7. Sharing Our Recipes: Vegan Conversion Narratives as Social Praxis
Patricia Malesh
PART III Changing Spaces for Learning: Actions
8. Moving Students into Social Movements: Prisoner Reentry and the Research Paper
David Coogan
9. Engaging Globalization through Local Community Activism: A Model for Activist Pedagogical Practice
Anne Marie Todd
10. "Creating Space" for Community: Radical Identities and Collective Praxis
Mary Ann Cain
Response Essay
11. Politics, Class, and Social Movement People: Continuing the Conversation
William DeGenaro
Notes on Contributors
References
Index
1. Introduction: Active Voices
Patricia Malesh and Sharon McKenzie Stevens
PART I A New Rhetoric for Social Change:Theories
2. Vernacular Rhetoric and Social Movements: Performances of Resistance in the Rhetoric of the Everyday
Gerard A. Hauser and erin daina mcclellan
3. Dreaming to Change Our Situation: Reconfiguring the Exigence for Student Writing
Sharon McKenzie Stevens
PART II Public Rhetorics: Analyses
4. Disorderly Women: Appropriating the Power Tools in Civic Discourses
Moira K. Amado-Miller
5. The Progressive Education Movement: A Case Study in Coalition Politics
Brian Jackson and Thomas P. Miller
6. Giving Voice to a Movement: Mills's "Letter to the New Left" and the Potential of History
Thomas Rosteck
7. Sharing Our Recipes: Vegan Conversion Narratives as Social Praxis
Patricia Malesh
PART III Changing Spaces for Learning: Actions
8. Moving Students into Social Movements: Prisoner Reentry and the Research Paper
David Coogan
9. Engaging Globalization through Local Community Activism: A Model for Activist Pedagogical Practice
Anne Marie Todd
10. "Creating Space" for Community: Radical Identities and Collective Praxis
Mary Ann Cain
Response Essay
11. Politics, Class, and Social Movement People: Continuing the Conversation
William DeGenaro
Notes on Contributors
References
Index
