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1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) |
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polychrome |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Turning and Turning -- Cultural Publics. Zines and Those Who Make Them : Introducing the Citizen Bricoleur ; Other Publics, Other Citizens, Other Writing Classrooms -- Disciplinary Publics. On the Very Idea of a Disciplinary Counterpublic : Three Exemplary Cases ; Composition Studies as a Kind of Counterpublic -- Epilogue. Whereabouts Unknown : Locating the Citizen Bricoleurs Among Us. |
| Summary |
The author argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublics - "citizen bricoleurs" - deserve a more prominent role in our scholarship and in our classrooms. Encouraging students to understand and consider resistant or oppositional discourse is a viable route toward mature participation as citizens in a democracy. Farmer examines two very different kinds of publics, cultural and disciplinary, and discusses two counterpublics within those broad categories: zine discourses and certain academic discourses. By juxtaposing these two significantly different kinds of publics, the author suggests that each discursive world can be seen, in its own distinct way, as a counterpublic, an oppositional social formation that has a stake in widening or altering public life as we know it. Drawing on major figures in rhetoric and cultural theory, the author builds his argument about composition teaching and its relation to the public sphere, leading to a more sophisticated understanding of public life and a deeper sense of what democratic citizenship means for our time. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Cultural publics -- pt. 2. Disciplinary publics. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Social movements.
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Social movements. |
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Dissenters.
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Dissenters. |
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Individualism.
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Individualism. |
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Public interest.
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Public interest. |
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Civil society.
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Civil society. |
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Citizenship.
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Citizenship. |
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Deliberative democracy.
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Deliberative democracy. |
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Political participation.
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Political participation. |
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Social aspects.
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Social aspects. |
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English language -- Composition and exercises. |
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Social movements. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Farmer, Frank, 1951- After the public turn. Boulder, Colorado : Utah State University Press, 2013 9780874219135 (DLC) 2012051181 (OCoLC)821025229 |
| ISBN |
9780874219142 (electronic book) |
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0874219140 (electronic book) |
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9780874219135 |
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0874219132 |
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1457184222 |
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9781457184222 |
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1299192424 |
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9781299192423 |
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