University Press of Colorado: Recent submissions
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Radical writing center praxis : a paradigm for ethical political engagement
Imagining a writing center where directors and staff become agents in active social justice on campus and beyond. Introducing activist concepts and vocabulary challenging writing centers to recognize their complicity with ... -
Multimodal composing : strategies for twenty-first century writing consultations
Strategies for writing center directors and tutors working with writers whose texts are visual, technological, creative, and performative--strategies most useful for writers and how tutors can develop a better sense of ... -
Rhetorical speculations : the future of rhetoric, writing, and technology
Allows scholars to explore modes of critical speculation into the transformative effect of emerging technologies, to speculate future shifts in intellectual, pedagogical, and institutional frameworks. The project repositions ... -
Bridging the multimodal gap : from theory to practice
Addresses multimodality scholarship and its use in the composition classroom and responds to the needs of instructors by exploring how multimodality can be implemented in courses and narrow the gap between those who engage ... -
Next steps : new directions for/in writing about writing
First collection of teacher and student voices on a writing pedagogy that puts Rhetoric and Composition's expert knowledge at the center of the classroom. Forty plus contributors report on writing-about-writing pedagogies ... -
Governors and the Progressive movement
Comprehensive overview of the Progressive movement's unfolding at state level, and in existence at the time, as evidenced in the eyes and actions of governors. Exploring the personalities, ideas, and activities of well-known ... -
Lithic technologies in sedentary societies
Examining lithic technology in sedentary societies around the world and showcasing information that in-depth, cutting-edge, lithic analytical techniques provides. Highlighting important contributions to the field of lithics ... -
Archaeology of medieval Islamic frontiers : from the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea, The
Different areas of the Islamic polity previously understood as "minor frontiers" were in fact of substantial importance to ancient state formation. Exploring different concepts of "border" in areas whose importance previously ... -
Interregional interaction in ancient Mesoamerica
Explores the role of interregional interaction in dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the Pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary scholars examine linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal ... -
Furthest ecology : poems
Furthest Ecology takes up the life and labor of Abbott Thayer, the prickly, irrepressible American painter and naturalist nicknamed "the father of camouflage." In 1896, Thayer discovered countershading, also known as ... -
Anthropomorphizing the cosmos : Middle Preclassic lowland Maya figurines, ritual, and time
Exploring the sociocultural significance of approximately three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala. In this analysis--hand-modeled, terracotta, ... -
Consentida : settlement, subsistence, and social organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican community, La
Exploring Early Formative- period transitions in residential mobility, subsistence, and social organization at La Consentida in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico. Demonstrating how La Consentida transformed during moments of socioeconomic ... -
Nature of hope : grassroots organizing, environmental justice, and political change, The
Examining the dynamics of environmental activism at the local level and how environmental and political cultures emerge in context of conflict. Considers how ordinary people coalesce to demand environmental justice and ... -
Idolatry and the construction of the Spanish empire
An ethnohistory on the spiritual as well as governmental conquest of the indigenous people in colonial Mexico that examines the role the shifting concept of idolatry played in the conquest of the Americas, as well as its ... -
Hidden out in the open : Spanish migration to the United States (1875-1930)
The first volume in English on the Spanish migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries covering a period defined by the crucial transformations of the Progressive Era and by similarly ... -
Late prehistoric hunter-gatherers and farmers of the Jornada Mogollon
The Jornada branch of the Mogollon culture in southeastern part of the U.S. and northern edge of Mexico played significant economic, political, and social roles. Topics reach beyond the American Southwest, such as mobility, ... -
Foraging in the past : archaeological studies of hunter-gatherer diversity
Well-established and innovative young scholars present new prehistoric data, new methods and theories to investigate ancient forager lifeways and hunter-gatherer variability across the globe. It extends beyond ethnographers ... -
Re/orienting writing studies : queer methods, queer projects
The intersection between queer theory and rhetoric and research methods in writing studies. Focusing theoretical attention on common research practices to demonstrate how queer rhetorics of writing/composing, textual ... -
Planting the anthropocene : rhetorics of natureculture
A rhetorical look into the world of silviculture--industrial tree planting--and engages themes of nature, culture, and environmental change. Bringing together the work of material ecocriticism and critical affect studies ...
