Active Voices

Description

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.
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

Sujets

• Discourse analysis
• Stylistics
• Semantics
• Activism

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 02 juillet 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438426433
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 20 Mo

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Active Voices

Composing a Rhetoric for Social Movements

edited by sharon mckenzie stevens and patricia m. malesh

mary ann cain

david coogan

william degenaro

gerard a. hauser

brian jackson

patricia m. malesh

erin daina mcclellan

moira amadomiller

thomas p. miller

thomas rosteck

anne marie todd

sharon mckenzie  stevens

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A C T I V E V O I C E S

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A C T I V E V O I C E S

Composing a Rhetoric of Social Movements

Edited by Sharon McKenzie Stevens and Patricia Malesh

SUNY P R E S S

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Active voices : composing a rhetoric for social movements / edited by Sharon Stevens and Patricia M. Malesh. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4384-2627-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Rhetoric—Social aspects. 2. Rhetoric—Political aspects. I. Stevens, Sharon McKenzie. II. Malesh, Patricia M. P301.5.S63A28 2009 808—dc22

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Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed. —John Dewey, American philosopher and education reformer (1859–1952)

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Acknowledgments

Contents

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

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Sharing Our Recipes: Vegan Conversion Narratives as Social Praxis Patricia Malesh

PART III Changing Spaces for Learning: Actions

Moving Students into Social Movements: Prisoner Reentry and the Research Paper David Coogan

Engaging Globalization through Local Community Activism: A Model for Activist Pedagogical Practice Anne Marie Todd

“Creating Space” for Community: Radical Identities and Collective Praxis Mary Ann Cain

Response Essay

Politics, Class, and Social Movement People: Continuing the Conversation William DeGenaro

Notes on Contributors

References

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