The Routledge Handbook of Social Justice in Technical and Professional Communication

Introduction: The Shifting Landscapes of Technical and Professional Communication

Natasha N. Jones, Laura Gonzales, Angela M. Haas, and Miriam F. Williams

Section 1: Disciplinarity

1. Pushing Technical and Professional Communication to the Next  Level: Hearing the Counter Narratives

Octavio Pimentel

2. The Role of UX and Social Justice in the TPC Discipline

Emma J. Rose

3. Citational Checkup for an Antiracist, Justice-Oriented Field

Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq

4. Journal Editing to Shift Disciplinarity Towards Justice

Rebecca Walton

5. Starting a New Social Justice Journal in the TPC Discipline

Godwin Agboka, Michael Duncan, Lucía Durá, Gerald (Jerry) Savage and Erin Trauth

6. Intentional Accompliceship and Its Role in TPC: (Re)Mapping Systemic, Affective, and Temporal Risk  

Erin A. Clark, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins and Ann Shivers-McNair

7. The Contributions of Graduate Students to TPC’s Disciplinary Trajectory 

Morgan C. Banville and Elena Kalodner-Martin

Section 2: Pedagogy

8. Reimagining Pedagogical Practices for Diverse Learners in TPC Programs 

Chris Dayley

9. From Aunt Jemima to Auntie: Black Feminist Pedagogy's Role in Transforming TPC Education  

Flourice W. Richardson

10. Classroom Experiential Learning at a Historically Black College and University

Temptaous Mckoy

11. Technical and Professional Communication Pedagogies at Hispanic-Serving Institutions 

Sarah Warren-Riley and Natalia Matveeva

12. What’s My Positionality? Using PSR’s “Who” as First Step 

Alicia K. Hatcher

13. Diversifying Online TPC Pedagogies with Insights from International Student UX

Meghalee Das

14. Queer Rhetorics and TPC Pedagogies

Fernando Sánchez

15. Illegibility as a Pedagogical Strategy in Technical and Professional Communication 

Alexander Slotkin

16. Critical AI Literacies in Technical and Professional Communication

Laura L. Allen

Section 3: Practice

17. Localization and Social Justice in Health Technical and Professional Communication Practice 

Keshab Raj Acharya

18. Narratives of Complicity and Institutional Accountability: A Case Study of the Museum of Us 

Jeffrey M. Gerding and Kyle P. Vealey

19. The Effects of COVID-19 on Internship Management, Mentoring, and Praxis 

Elise Verzosa Hurley

20. The TPC Difference: Professionalization and Social Justice in User Experience Education 

Joseph Bartolotta and Julianne Newmark

21. Accessibility and Technologies 

Janine Butler

Section 4: Social Change

22. Environmental Justice and Social Change: Opportunities for Action 

Donnie Johnson Sackey

23. Social Media as an Avenue for Social Change in Technical and Professional Communication 

Sweta Baniya

24. Intersectional Gender Studies and Research in Technical and Professional Communication 

Avery Edenfield

25. Classroom Practice as Social Change in Technical and Professional Communication 

Jessica R. Edwards

26. Design Thinking as an Avenue for Social Change in Technical and Professional Communication 

Mason Pellegrini and Jason Tham

27. Centering the Marginalized: Exploring Strategies for Social Change in TPC 

Jamal-Jared Alexander

28. Technologies of Recovery for Social Change 

Josephine Walwema

29. Disability Studies and TPC: Engaging with Disability Justice to Imagine More Accessible Futures  

Allison Hitt

30. A Linguistic Justice Statement for the Field of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Communication

Suzanne Black, Alison Cardinal, Oscar Garcia Santana, Laura Gonzales, Halcyon Lawrence, Soyeon Lee, Diane Martinez, Nora K. Rivera, Cecilia D. Shelton and Josephine Walwema

Section 5: Intersections: Cultures and Communities

31. Localization and Culture in Communities in the Global South: Toward an Ethic of Accountability 

G. Edzordzi Agbozo

32. Hip Hop as an Orientation to Community Building 

Victor J. Del Hierro

33. Taking Action Through Storytelling: A Critical Analysis of CDC’s HEAR HER Campaign Developed to Address the Maternal Mortality Crisis 

Candice A. Welhausen

34. Localization is a Political Act: Collaborating with Indigenous Language Speakers in Communities 

Nora K. Rivera

35. Pink Sheets and Ghana’s 2012 Election Petition: Toward System-Disruptive Documentation 

Isidore K. Dorpenyo

36. “Identity is Just the Vessel Through Which the struggle Gets Shaped”: Identity-Conscious Community Organizing in Appalachia 

Erin Brock Carlson

37. Civic Technical and Professional Communication in Transnational Chinese Feminist Activism Networks 

Chen Chen

38. Community Climate Tropes and Neocolonial Resistance from Lagos, Nigeria 

Olarotimi Ogungbemi and Kenneth Walker

39. Protection and Precarity: Black Gun Culture and Public Health

Miriam F. Williams

Biography

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).