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After the public turn: composition, counterpublics, and the citizen bricoleur

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dc.contributor.authorFarmer, Frank, author
dc.contributor.authorUtah State University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:48:02Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:48:02Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractIn After the Public Turn, author Frank Farmer 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, Farmer 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, Farmer 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.
dc.description.tableofcontentsPt. 1. Cultural publics -- pt. 2. Disciplinary publics.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediumbooks
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/88145
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofUtah State University Press
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dc.subjectSocial movements
dc.subjectDissenters
dc.subjectIndividualism
dc.subjectPublic interest
dc.subjectCivil society
dc.subjectCitizenship
dc.subjectDeliberative democracy
dc.subjectPolitical participation
dc.subjectEnglish language -- Composition and exercises -- Social aspects
dc.subjectEnglish language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
dc.titleAfter the public turn: composition, counterpublics, and the citizen bricoleur
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