Public Acts

by Meiners,Erica

• ISBN13: 9780415948395
• ISBN10: 0415948398
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

As this book documents local, specific, and contextualized acts of resistance and offers a detailed analysis of varied forms of public literacies, it functions as a template to inform and inspire resistant practices in diverse communities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Foreword	ix
Suzanne de Castell
Introduction	1	(14)
Making Knowledge in Public: Overturning an Audience
Francisco Ibañez-Carrasco & Erica R. Meiners
Section 1. Disruptive Desires
1. Poverty, Policy, and Research: Toward a Dialogic Investigation	15	(20)
Amanda Boggan and Shauna Butterwick
2. Desire and Betrayal in Community-Based Research	35	(22)
Francisco Ibañez-Carrasco
3. Waadookodaading Indigenous Language Immersion: Personal Reflections on the Gut-Wrenching Start-Up Years	57	(16)
Mary Hermes
4. Trials and Tribulations for Social Justice	73	(18)
Adriana E. Espinoza
Section 2. Audiences to Participants
5. Theater Forum at the Urban Odyssey School: A Case Study	91	(14)
Michael Sanders
6. Write it, Get it: Motivating Youth Writers	105	(12)
Michael Hoechsmann
7. Take Two on Media and Race	117	(18)
David Stovall
8. "When I close my classroom door...": Private Places in Public Spaces	135	(26)
Jennifer Jenson
Section 3. Public Acts
9. Working between University and Community: Shifting the Focus, Shifting the Practice	161	(20)
Erica R. Meiners (with engagements from Salome Chasnoff and Roberto Sanabria)
10. How Research Can Be Made to Mean: Feminist Ethnography at the Limits of Representation	181	(8)
Patti Lather
11. How New Yorkers Said No to War: An Experiment in Message and Action	189	(22)
Chris Cuomo
12. Encounters with Memory and Mourning: Public Art as Collective Pedagogy of Reconciliation	211	(26)
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
Contributor Biographies	237	(4)
Index	241