Active Voices: Composing a Rhetoric for Social Movements

✍ Scribed by Sharon Mckenzie Stevens, Patricia M. Malesh

• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.

✦ Table of Contents

ACTIVE VOICES......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
1. Introduction: Active Voices......Page 13
Part I. A New Rhetoric for Social Change: Theories
......Page 33
2. Vernacular Rhetoric and Social Movements: Performances of Resistance in the Rhetoric of the Everyday......Page 35
3. Dreaming to Change Our Situation: Reconfiguring the Exigence for Student Writing......Page 59
Part II. Public Rhetorics: Analyses......Page 79
4. Disorderly Women: Appropriating the Power Tools in Civic Discourses......Page 81
5. The Progressive Education Movement: A Case Study in Coalition Politics......Page 105
6. Giving Voice to a Movement: Mills’s “Letter to the New Left” and the Potential of History......Page 127
7. Sharing Our Recipes: Vegan Conversion Narratives as Social Praxis......Page 143
Part III. Changing Spaces for Learning: Actions......Page 159
8. Moving Students into Social Movements: Prisoner Reentry and the Research Paper......Page 161
9. Engaging Globalization through Local Community Activism: A Model for Activist Pedagogical Practice......Page 179
10. “Creating Space” for Community: Radical Identities and Collective Praxis......Page 193
Response Essay......Page 209
Contributors......Page 225
References......Page 229
B......Page 253
C......Page 254
E......Page 255
H......Page 256
L......Page 257
P......Page 258
R......Page 259
S......Page 260
W......Page 261
Z......Page 262