Decolonizing Projects: Creating Pluriversal Possibilities in Rhetoric

Jackson, Rachel; Nichols, Annie Laurie; Rivard, Courtney; Moulder, Amanda; Murdock, Chelsea J.; Grant, David M.; Adams, Heather Brook

doi:10.1080/07350198.2019.1549402

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“…The complexities I have discussed regarding a single principle-justicecorrelate to discussions of other foundational principles that are both historically important and presently fraught that are likely to continue to influence research in the field in coming years, including generalization (for helpful reading, start with Barnes et al, 2021), fairness (e.g., Elliot, 2016;Poe et al, 2018), validity (e.g., Cushman, 2016Cushman et al, 2019), andreplicability (e.g., Haswell, 2005). All of these matters similarly operate on multiple planes and axes in which incommensurability could be a challenge if TPC as a field does not agree on a shared ontology.…”

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“…(2019, p. 94) Similarly, Cushman (2016) questioned who gets to make meaning, and why, in writing studies. Cushman et al (2019) offered us a pluriversality, in which many worlds can coexist equally on their own terms. In such a context, evidential claims and claims about validity are meant to better understand difference.…”

Section: Personalist and Empirical Traditions And The Social Justice ...mentioning

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Concomitant Ethics: Institutional Review Boards and Technical and Professional Communication's Social Justice Turn

Phelps

2022

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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This article historicizes the impact of the Common Rule, which mandates the existence of Institutional Review Boards, on technical and professional communication (TPC) research with a focus on the principle of justice. Justice is discussed as a complex principle that must be internally and coherently balanced along several axes in the design, implementation, and promulgation of research in technical communication. The author proposes that with shared language, which in this article begins with one principle—justice—TPC researchers can more plainly articulate their positions in the development and dissemination of scholarship, thereby adding coherence to ethical work in the 21st century.

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Section: Personalist and Empirical Traditions And The Social Justice ...mentioning

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Concomitant Ethics: Institutional Review Boards and Technical and Professional Communication's Social Justice Turn

Phelps

2022

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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“…Second, because decolonial scholars resist grand alternatives to coloniality, they argue for "options, rather than alternatives" in order to "pluriversalize rhetorics without universalizing or Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie Volume 32, 2022 http://journals.sfu.ca/dwr authenticating another alternative approach to rhetoric (Cushman et al, 2019; For a critique of scholars who seek to authorize a singular alternative approach rather than options, see Cushman, Baca, & García, 2021). In other words, a decolonial perspective invites a multiplicity (or pluriverse) of epistemological frameworks, ways of communicating, and identity positions.…”

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“…And as Cushman once explained to me, pluriversality invites us to imagine options that we do not know exist yet. For Cushman et al (2019), the work of offering options is inclusive: "the effort to move toward this change must necessarily involve everyone who is situated within the colonial matrix of power" (p. 2).…”

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Learning to Unlearn the Teaching and Assessment of Academic Writing

Poe

2022

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The last two years have raised important questions about how we can make the teaching of academic writing more equitable. In fact, the current moment invites us to “learn to unlearn” ways of teaching academic writing that perpetuate inequity. In this reflective article, I draw on decolonial theory and antiracist theory to unwind the ways coloniality has shaped the way that I have taught scientific writing for two decades. This work begins with a discussion of the idea of learning to unlearn from decolonial theory. I then examine how that perspective can change the way we teach scientific communication—for example, in contextualizing the development of scientific knowledge as a series of epistemological developments and exchanges, rather than from a zero point of Western thought. Spiraling outward from the classroom, I reflect on how scientific writing is part of a larger matrix of institutional structures that unwittingly compound colonial legacies inequities. In the end, if we are to address inequity in the teaching and assessment of academic writing in new ways, then we need to acknowledge and challenge the legacies of coloniality in the teaching and assessment of academic writing.

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“…What digital archivists also must remember is that only by problematizing uninterrogated-essentialized representations of minoritized communities, digital archives can be a home for contradictory, contingent, counter-narratives emerging from marginalized spaces and subalternized voices [37][38][39][40][41][42][43]. And to do so, there must be a strong sense of commitment toward self-interrogation, which will protect digital archivists from falling into a self-congratulatory snare that traps every possibility of further evolution and transformation.…”

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Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research

Poudyal

2020

Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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When digital archives are increasingly becoming a space for knowledge production, construction, consumption, maintenance, dissemination, and amplification, the necessary questions to be interrogated are: Who has access to write, participate, and construct pasts, memories, and collective public imaginations through these digital domains? How can the ones who have access to engage in epistemological performances through digital archives make these domains a space to deconstruct essentialized identity categories forced upon the Other by the (hetero)patriarchal and/or imperial-colonial Self? And how can participatory design frameworks contribute to that? Triggered by these questions, my critical digital archival research project attempts at finding theories-praxes to make dialogic rooms in digital archives to build a relationship with historically, structurally, and/or systematically minoritized communities and their distinctive, transitory, plural, and conjunctural narratives. This paper introduces my ongoing doctoral project of the critical digital archive where I am documenting and theorizing a digital archive of my street photography in Nepal that I am building through participatory design frameworks with South Asian communities. In this paper, I offer a look at how the complexities and obstacles faced during UX research can enable technical communicators to rupture the essentialist foundation of identity constructions of Non-Western communities. My paper aims to communicate the necessity of conducting UX research through participatory-design frameworks not only to find answers to design technology but to see a way of completely subverting epistemic violence of colonial discourses through the "failure" to find answers. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Interaction design; Interaction design process and methods; Participatory design.

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Decolonizing Projects: Creating Pluriversal Possibilities in Rhetoric

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Concomitant Ethics: Institutional Review Boards and Technical and Professional Communication's Social Justice Turn

Concomitant Ethics: Institutional Review Boards and Technical and Professional Communication's Social Justice Turn

Learning to Unlearn the Teaching and Assessment of Academic Writing

Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research

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