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Writing Democracy

The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era

By: Shannon Carter (Editor), Deborah Mutnick (Editor), Stephen Parks (Editor)

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Hardcover | 23 August 2019 | Edition Number 1

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302 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75

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Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era calls on the field of writing studies to take up a necessary agenda of social and economic change in its classrooms, its scholarship, and its communities to challenge the rise of neoliberalism and right-wing nationalism.

Grown out of an extended national dialogue among public intellectuals, academic scholars, and writing teachers, collectively known as the Writing Democracy project, the book creates a strategic roadmap for how to reclaim the progressive and political possibilities of our field in response to the "twilight of neoliberalism" (Cox and Nilsen), ascendant right-wing nationalism at home (Trump) and abroad (Le Pen, Golden Dawn, UKIP), and hopeful radical uprisings (Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring). As such, the book tracks the emergence of a renewed left wing in rhetoric and activism post-2008, suggests how our work as teachers, scholars, and administrators can bring this new progressive framework into our institutions, and then moves outward to our role in activist campaigns that are reshaping public debate.

Part history, part theory, this book will be an essential read for faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in composition and rhetoric and related fields focused on progressive pedagogy, university-community partnerships, and politics.

Industry Reviews

The chapters in this collection provide reality checks, an ethical foundation, inspiration, and practical routes to action that can help us each be brave in taking our own political turn.

Sarah Moon for the Community Literacy Journal, 2021

Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era gives students, instructors, and activists a life preserver of practical thought, sage advice, and instantly-usable pedagogical tools to push back against the tide of neoliberalism and all that it has broken. Far from just a critique of the moment, this book is a field manual in the battle against political ideologies and economic movements that still haven't destroyed us, at a time when (hopefully) the field of Rhetoric and Composition is ready for it.

Brian McShane for Reflections, 2020

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