The Routledge Handbook of Social Justice in Technical and Professional Communication: (Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies)

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 in the field of TPC.

Table of Contents:
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 TPC’s 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. What’s My Positionality? Using PSR’s “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 CDC’s 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 Ghana’s 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

About the Author :
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).