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 Contents

Acknowledgements

Series Introduction by Dr. Tharon W. Howard

Foreword by Dr. Miriam F. Williams

Prologue

Introduction

Section I: Laying the Conceptual Groundwork

Chapter 1: Oppression

Chapter 2: Justice

Section II: Rearticulating the 3Ps

Chapter 3: Positionality

Chapter 4: Privilege

Chapter 5: Power

Section III: Building Coalitions

Chapter 6: Coalitional Action

Chapter 7: Critiques and Responses

Afterword by Dr. Angela M. Haas