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Book SynopsisTeaching Writing in Globalization: Remapping Disciplinary Work, edited by Darin Payne and Daphne Desser, examines the impact of globalization on disciplinary work in higher education. Conversely, it also examines the impact of disciplinary work on the shape and evolution of globalization. Payne and Desser collect a series of essays which offer ways of actively engaging globalization from within, not as mere observers or adapters but as citizens with agency. Using writing instruction as its touchstone and rhetoric/composition as a disciplinary case study, the book critically analyzes the shifting work of teaching, research, and administration in academia, exploring ways in which individuals and institutions can respond to the social, economic, and cultural changes presently underway. The authors develop separate chapters from a shared vantage point: one who is critical of the increasing imprint of neoliberalism on education. The essays provide, in both theory and practice, varying means of disrupting, intervening in, and challenging that imprint within the primary domains of academic lifescholarship, pedagogy, and administrative service. Members of varied disciplines will find in this collection a potential model for thinking critically about, and responding proactively to, their own academic work in the context of globalization.
Trade ReviewA rich, nuanced discussion of the ways that composition can sustain a radically democratic globalization from below. These essays trace the oppositional literacies and rhetorics of solidarity informing the movements struggling against the global network of sweatshops where poisoned workers toil twelve or fourteen hours for ten dollars a day. -- Marc Bousquet, Santa Clara University
Teaching Writing in Globalization investigates competing meanings of 'globalization' to explore ways of using writing and the teaching of writing to negotiate the economic, geo-political, cultural, institutional, and disciplinary relations impacting our lives. Offering perspectives from some of the leading voices in rhetoric and composition, it provides a necessary and welcome opening into the multiple and specific ways we might (re)write and (re)read the global-local. -- Min-Zhan Lu, University of Louisville
Table of ContentsForeword by Rachel Riedner and Randi Grey Kristensen Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Pedagogy of the Globalized: Education as a Practice of Intervention, by Darin Payne Chapter 2: Nga Tamatoa and the Rhetoric of Brown Power: Re-Situating Collective Rhetorics in Global Colonialism, by Sharon Stevens and Lachlan Paterson Chapter 3: Think Global, Eat Local: Teaching Alternative Agrarian Literacy in a Globalized Age, by Eileen Schell Chapter 4: Globalization and the Composition Program: The WPA as Broker, by Bruce Horner Chapter 5: Anxieties of Globalization: Networked Subjects in Rhetoric and Composition Studies, by Rebecca Dingo and Donna Strickland Chapter 6: Mapping Everyday Articulations: Gender, Blackness, and Urban Revolution in Washington, D.C., by L. Hill Taylor, Jr. Chapter 7: "The People's Challenge": Rhetorics of Globalization from Above and Below, by Daphne Desser Chapter 8: Worldwide Composition: Virtual Uncertainties, by Chris Anson
