New: Special Issue of TCSJ on Unjust "Permission Structures" Now Available Online
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Dear Writing Studies Colleagues,
On behalf of my coeditors, we are pleased to announce our special issue of Technical Communication and Social Justice on the topic of Unjust “Permission Structures” in/as Technical Communication is now available open access online.
This special issue marks the emergence of the term “permission structures” into technical communication scholarship, and we hope the diversity of scholarly approaches and fascinating topics of study inspire further explorations of the generative potential of permission structuring within the field.
The full issue is available online at:
https://techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tcsj/index
Articles in the special issue include:
Deny, Defend, Depose: Structuring Permission for Bureaucratic Indifference, Slow (Civic) Violence, and the Institutional Betrayal of DEI
by Ryan Cheek & Isidore Dorpenyo
Permission From the Future: Science Fiction Fantasies and “Extrauterine Children” in Post-Dobbs Imaginaries
by Sara DiCaglio
Anti-DEI Legislation as an Unjust Permission Structure: A Critical Discourse Analysis of White Racial Resentment in State-Level Anti-DEI Bills
by Nick Sanders
Culture(d) Wars: Reciprocal Permission Structures in Cultured Meat Bans
by S. Marek Muller & David Rooney
Donation Bag Programs as Multimodal Permission Structures: Selling Climate-Positive Consumerism Through Digital Marketing
by Sarah Riddick
“What Do I Need to Say to Make You Trust Me?”: Influences of Competing Permission Structures on COVID-19 Vaccination Decision-Making
by Elena Kalodner-Martin
Good Queer, Bad Queer: Pinkwashing as LGBTQ+ Citizen-Subjectification
by Courtney Fallon
We sincerely thank the supportive TCSJ editorial team, all of our talented authors, and our external reviewers for bringing this special issue to press.
On a personal note, we invite you to also read the special issue’s dedication to our late collaborator and fellow coeditor, Kym Morquecho, who contributed to every aspect of this special issue before her passing this June. It is in her memory and spirit of social justice advocacy that we celebrate the issue’s publication.
We hope you enjoy reading each of these articles as much as we did.
Sincerely,
R.J. Lambert, Randall W. Monty, and Sarah Warren-Riley
TCSJ Special Issue Guest Editors
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