Active voices [[electronic resource] ] : composing a rhetoric for social movements / / edited by Sharon McKenzie Stevens and Patricia Malesh

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Disciplina: 808
• Soggetto topico: Rhetoric - Social aspects; Rhetoric - Political aspects
• Altri autori: StevensSharon McKenzie MaleshPatricia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-239) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""ACTIVE VOICES""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Active Voices""; ""Part 1. A New Rhetoric for Social Change: Theories""; ""2. Vernacular Rhetoric and Social Movements: Performances of Resistance in the Rhetoric of the Everyday""; ""3. Dreaming to Change Our Situation: Reconfiguring the Exigence for Student Writing""; ""Part II. Public Rhetorics: Analyses""; ""4. Disorderly Women: Appropriating the Power Tools in Civic Discourses""; ""5. The Progressive Education Movement: A Case Study in Coalition Politics"" ; ""6. Giving Voice to a Movement: Mills's Letter to the New Left and the Potential of History""""7. Sharing Our Recipes: Vegan Conversion Narratives as Social Praxis""; ""Part III. Changing Spaces for Learning: Actions""; ""8.Moving Students into Social Movements: Prisoner Reentry and the Research Paper""; ""9.Engaging Globalization through Local Community Activism: A Model for Activist Pedagogical Practice""; ""10. Creating Space for Community: Radical Identities and Collective Praxis""; ""Response Essay""; ""Contributors""; ""References""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: From suffragettes to vegans, participants in social movements strive to change the worlds they inhabit, whether by direct action, rallies, marches, organized work stoppages, or engaging government power in service of their aims. Active Voices explores both the rhetorical dimensions of such activist activities and the integral role of rhetoric in the processes of social transformation. This collection balances in-depth analyses of particular movements and pedagogical projects with broader perspectives on how language and embodied action shape avenues for activism. Featured are a wide range of sites for social change, from the progressive education movement to African American drum circles, and from prisoner reentry programs to the nineteenth-century women's suffrage movement. Speaking as scholars, activists, storytellers, rhetoricians, and teachers, the contributors blur the boundaries between different aspects of their identities and challenge divisions between creating theory and practicing it.
• Titolo autorizzato: Active voices
• ISBN: 1-4384-2643-7; 1-4416-2052-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814358103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II