Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn

Dr. Rebecca Walton is an associate professor of technical communication and rhetoric at Utah State University, USA, and the editor of Technical Communication Quarterly. Her co-authored work has won multiple national awards, including the 2018 CCCC Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication, the 2016 and 2017 Nell Ann Pickett Award, and the 2017 STC Distinguished Article Award.Dr. Kristen R. Moore is an associate professor of technical communication in the Departments of Engineering Education and English at the University at Buffalo, USA. Her scholarship has been published in a range of technical communication journals and has been awarded CCCC Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication in 2015 and 2018, the Nell Ann Pickett Award, and the Joenk Award.Dr. Natasha N. Jones is an associate professor at Michigan State University, USA, and the Vice President for the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). She has published in several journals and been recognized for her scholarship, including with the Nell Ann Pickett Award and a CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Best Article Award in 2014 and 2018.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsSeries Introduction by Dr. Tharon W. HowardForeword by Dr. Miriam F. WilliamsPrologueIntroductionSection I: Laying the Conceptual GroundworkChapter 1: OppressionChapter 2: JusticeSection II: Rearticulating the 3PsChapter 3: PositionalityChapter 4: PrivilegeChapter 5: PowerSection III: Building CoalitionsChapter 6: Coalitional ActionChapter 7: Critiques and Responses Afterword by Dr. Angela M. Haas

"This book opens vital conversations and makes fascinating theoretical interventions into the 'social justice turn' in technical communication. Anyone in this field with more than a fleeting commitment to social justice must carefully consider Walton, Moore, and Jones’ insights on intersectionality, coalition, power, and privilege."-Karma R. Chávez, University of Texas at Austin, USA