This handbook interrogates and illustrates contemporary approaches to Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) by focusing on emerging issues in the field. Using a social justice-centered approach, the handbook provides a view of the current state of the discipline and highlights emerging directions and perspectives that will influence the trajectory of the field in the coming years. It is divided into five interrelated parts:
• Disciplinarity
• Pedagogy
• Practice
• Social Change
• Intersections: Cultures and Communities.
Acknowledging that TPC is always embedded and participating in specific power structures, The Routledge Handbook of Social Justice in Technical and Professional Communication offers readers a way forward, a future imagined and (re)imagined and presents scholarship that is progress-in-process for TPC. Providing frameworks and strategies for embracing a social justice-driven approach, this handbook will be of interest to scholars, teachers, administrators, community leaders, and workplace and industry practitioners within the field of Technical and Professional Communication and Writing.
This handbook interrogates and illustrates contemporary approaches to Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) by focusing on emerging issues in the field.
Introduction to the Collection Section 1: Disciplinarity
1. Pushing
Technical and Professional Communication to the Next Level: Listening to the
Counter Narratives
2. The Role of UX and Social Justice in the TPC Discipline
3. Citational Checkup for an Antiracist, Justice-Oriented Field
4. Journal
Editing as a Way to Shift Disciplinarity
5. Starting a New Social Justice
Journal in the TPC Discipline
6. Intentional Accompliceship and its Role in
TPC: (Re)Mapping Systemic, Affective, and Temporal Risk
7. The Contributions
of Graduate Students to TPCs Disciplinary Trajectory Section 2: Pedagogy
8.
Dismantling Whiteness to Build Inclusive Pedagogies in TPC Academic Programs
9. From Aunt Jemima to Auntie: Black Feminist Pedagogy's Role in Transforming
TPC Education
10. Classroom Experiential Learning at a Historically Black
College and University
11. Technical and Professional Communication
Pedagogies at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
12. Whats My Positionality?
Using PSRs Who as First Step
13. Diversifying Online TPC Pedagogies with
Insights from International Student UX
14. Queer Rhetorics and TPC Pedagogies
15. Illegibility as a Pedagogical Strategy in Technical and Professional
Communication
16. Critical AI Literacies in Technical and Professional
Communication Section 3: Practice
17. Localization and Social Justice in
Health TPC Practice
18. Narratives of Complicity and Institutional
Accountability: A Case Study of the Museum of Us
19. The Effects of COVID-19
on Internship Management, Mentoring, and Praxis
20. The TPC Difference:
Practice, Professionalization, and Social Justice in User Experience
Education
21. Accessibility and Technologies Section 4: Social Change
22.
Environmental Justice and Social Change: Opportunities for Action
23. Social
Media as an Avenue for Social Change in TPC
24. Intersectional Gender Studies
and Research in TPC
25. Classroom Practice as Social Change in TPC
26. Design
Thinking as an Avenue for Social Change in Technical and Professional
Communication
27. Centering the Marginalized: Exploring DEI Strategies and
Social Change in TPC
28. Technologies of Recovery for Social Change
29.
Disability Studies and TPC: Engaging with Disability Justice to Imagine More
Accessible Futures
30. A Linguistic Justice Statement for the Field of
Professional, Technical, and Scientific Communication (PTSC) Section 5:
Intersections: Cultures and Communities
31. Localization and Culture in
Communities in the Global South: Toward an Ethic of Accountability
32. Hip
Hop as an Orientation to Community Building
33. Taking Action Through
Storytelling: A Critical Analysis of CDCs HEAR HER Campaign Developed to
Address the Maternal Mortality Crisis
34. Localization is a Political Act:
Collaborating with Indigenous Language Speakers in Communities
35. Pink
Sheets and Ghanas 2012 Election Petition: Toward System-Disruptive
Documentation
36. Identity is just the vessel through which the struggle
gets shaped: Identity-Conscious Community Organizing in Appalachia
37. Civic
Technical and Professional Communication in Transnational Chinese Feminist
Activism Networks
38. Community Climate Tropes & Neocolonial Resistance from
Lagos, Nigeria
39. Protection and Precarity: Black Gun Culture and Public
Health
Natasha N. Jones is an Associate Professor in African American and African Studies at Michigan State University, USA, and serves as the Immediate Past President of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). She is a co-author of Technical Communication after the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action (Routledge, 2019).
Laura Gonzales is an Associate Professor of Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics at the University of Florida, USA. She is the current president of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) and the author of Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication (2022).
Angela M. Haas is Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication at Illinois State University, USA, and serves as Past-Past President of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). She is a co-editor of Key Theoretical Frameworks: Teaching Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century (2018).
Miriam F. Williams is Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. She is a co-editor of Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication (Routledge, 2014) and the author of From Black Codes to Recodification: Removing the Veil from Regulatory Writing (Routledge, 2010).
