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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452556303321

Autore

Farmer Frank <1951->

Titolo

After the public turn [[electronic resource] ] : composition, counterpublics, and the citizen bricoleur / / Frank Farmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colo., : Utah State University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-4571-8422-2

0-87421-914-0

1-299-19242-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/4

Soggetti

Social movements

Dissenters

Individualism

Public interest

Civil society

Citizenship

Deliberative democracy

Political participation

English language - Composition and exercises - Social aspects

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Cultural publics -- pt. 2. Disciplinary publics.

Sommario/riassunto

"In After the Public Turn, author Frank Farmer argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublics--"citizen bricoleurs"--deserve a more prominent role in our scholarship and in our classrooms. Encouraging students to understand and consider resistant or oppositional discourse is a viable route toward mature participation as citizens in a democracy. Farmer examines two very different kinds of publics, cultural and disciplinary, and discusses two counterpublics within those broad categories: zine discourses and certain academic discourses. By juxtaposing these two significantly



different kinds of publics, Farmer suggests that each discursive world can be seen, in its own distinct way, as a counterpublic, an oppositional social formation that has a stake in widening or altering public life as we know it. Drawing on major figures in rhetoric and cultural theory, Farmer builds his argument about composition teaching and its relation to the public sphere, leading to a more sophisticated understanding of public life and a deeper sense of what democratic citizenship means for our time"--