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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476829703321

Autore

Shivers-McNair Ann

Titolo

Beyond the makerspace : making and relational rhetorics / / Ann Shivers-McNair

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

0-472-90241-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Sweetland digital rhetoric collaborative

Disciplina

658.38

Soggetti

Makerspaces - Washington (State) - Seattle

Makerspaces - Social aspects

Rhetoric - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-143) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: making -- Relational rhetorics -- Stories -- Spatial manipulations -- Disequilibrium -- Community -- Teaching -- Conclusion: futures.

Sommario/riassunto

Makerspaces--local workshops that offer access to and training on fabrication technologies, often with a focus on creativity, education, and entrepreneurship--proliferated in the 2010s, popping up in cities across the world.  Beyond the Makerspace is a longitudinal, ethnographically informed study of a particular Seattle makerspace that begins in 2015 and ends with the closing of the space in 2018.  Examining acts of making with objects, tools, words, and relationships, Beyond the Makerspace reads making as a kind of rhetoric, or meaning-making work, and argues that acts of making things are rhetorical in the sense that they are culturally situated and that they mark boundaries of what counts as making and who counts as maker. By focusing on a particular makerspace over time, Shivers-McNair attends to a changing cohort of makerspace regulars as they face challenges of bringing their vision of inclusivity and diversity to fruition, and offers an examination of how makers are made (and unmade, and remade) in a makerspace. Beyond the Makerspace contributes not only to our understanding of making and makerspaces,



but also to our understanding of how to study making--and meaning making, more broadly--in ways that examine and intervene in the marking of difference. Thus, the book examines what (and whose) values and practices we are taking up when we identify as makers or when we turn a writing classroom or a library space into a makerspace.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910488738603321

Autore

Charlton Ed

Titolo

Improvising Reconciliation : Confession after the Truth Commission / / Ed Charlton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2021

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-80034-480-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource) : : illustrations

Disciplina

323.49

Soggetti

Confession

Reconciliation - Social aspects - South Africa

Reconciliation - Political aspects - South Africa

Electronic books.

South Africa Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library on publication.

Improvising Reconciliation is prompted by South Africa’s enduring state of injustice. It is both a lament for the promise with which non-racial democracy was inaugurated and, more substantially, a space within which to consider its possible renewal. As such, this study lobbies for an expanded approach to the country’s formal transition from



apartheid in order to grapple with reconciliation’s ongoing potential within the contemporary imaginary. It does not, however, presume to correct the contradictions that have done so much to corrupt the concept in recent decades. Instead, it upholds the language of reconciliation for strategic, rather than essential, reasons. And while this study surveys some of the many serious critiques levelled at the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1996-2001), these misgivings help situate the plural, improvised approach to reconciliation that has arguably emerged from the margins of the cultural sphere in the years since. Improvisation serves here as a separate way of both thinking and doing reconciliation. It recalibrates the concept according to a series of deliberative, agonistic and iterative, rather than monumental, interventions, rendering reconciliation in terms that make failure a necessary condition for its future realisation."