New: Community is the Way: Engaged Writing & Designing for Transformative Change (Book from WAC Clearinghouse)
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Hi Folks,
I’m
pleased to share the news that the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu)
has released a new open-access book. It appears in the Practices & Possibilities book series, which I co-edit with Aimee McClure and Aleashia Walton.
Community is the Way: Engaged Writing and Designing for Transformative Change
By Aimée Knight
How can we design for equity and justice in our community partnerships? This field guide offers a vision for enacting social justice with community partners. Working from a community’s resources and strengths toward the goal of building its internal capacity, this book considers how actions such as grassroots activism, decolonization efforts, co-resistance movements, and social change initiatives can support reciprocity and mutuality. Community is the Way provides examples of concrete, situated action grounded in disciplinary knowledge and extensive fieldwork. Reflecting on her experiences operating a community writing program, author Aimée Knight argues that the equity-based approach described in this book requires a commitment to interrogating how power, oppression, resistance, privilege, penalties, benefits, and harms are built into the systems we seek to change. Knight offers a community-led approach that builds bridges of understanding and support and charts a path toward transformative change.
You can find the book at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/community/. This book, like other books published by the Clearinghouse, will be available in a print edition from University Press of Colorado in the coming months. Thanks to Aimée for her work on the book and for her decision to share it with us as an open-access publication. Thanks as well to the anonymous peer reviewers who contributed to its development.
All the best,
Mike
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Mike Palmquist
Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse
Professor of English
University Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Colorado State University
Email: Mike.Pa...@ColoState.edu
