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Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Seth Kahn and JongHwa Lee
• The only conceivable thing to do: reflections on academics and activism / Dana L. Cloud
• "Go back to America and let them know": reflections on activist scholarship / JongHwa Lee
• The work of a middle-class activist: stuck in history / Charles Bazerman
• Speaking truth to power: observations from experience / Lee Artz
• Gadugi: where the fire burns / Ellen Cushman
• Intervention and rhetorics of war: classical insights for contemporary activists / Melissa Dey Hassbrook
• A conservative pundit in liberal surroundings: an uneven odyssey / Richard E. Vatz
• The role of communism in democratic discourse: what activist rhetoricians can learn from the World Bank
• (Re)politicizing the writing process: an exhortation and a cautionary tale / Seth Kahn
• Looking for the left in Russia / Kathleen Feyh
• Developing activist rhetorics on Israel-Palestine: resisting the depoliticization of the American Academy / Matthew Abraham
• Democracy and the academy: ethnographic articulations and interventions for social change / Paige P. Edley and Nina Maria Lozano-Reich
• Against decorous civility: acting as if you live in a democracy / M.J. Braun
• You can't get there from here: higher education, labor activism, and challenges of neoliberal globalization / Kevin Mahoney
• Practicing democracy: an experience-based approach / Ruth E. Ray ... [et al.]
• Breaking news: armchair activists access their power / Shelley Deblasis and Teresa Grettano
• Activism in the ivory tower: finding hope for academic prose / Rebecca Jones
• Reclaiming activism for students / Amy Pason
• Postscript to chapter 7 / Richard E. Vatz.

Contributors:

Kahn, Seth

Lee, JongHwa

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Political participation

Communication in politics

Rhetoric — Political aspects

Communication — Political aspects

Rhetoric

Communication

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 205 pages ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

JF799 .A38 2011

ISBNs:

9780415878555 (hardback, alk. paper)
0415878551 (hardback)
9780415878562 (pbk., alk. paper)
041587856X (pbk.)
9780203846285 (e-book)
0203846281 (e-book)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010008180

OCLC Numbers:

457164775