Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action: Rebecca Walton, Kristen R. Moore, and Natasha N. Jones [Book Review]

• Published in: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 205 - 206
• Main Author: Starks, Caitlin E.
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2020
• Subjects: Action coalitions; Employment; Scholarships; Social implications of technology; social justice; technical communication
• ISSN: 0361-1434; 1558-1500
• DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2020.2989602

For technical communicators wanting to learn how to enact social justice, Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action by Rebecca Walton, Kristen R. Moore, and Natasha N. Jones is a useful and insightful guide. The book successfully achieves its purpose of introducing technical communicators to social justice scholarship and practice after the social justice turn within the field of technical communication. To successfully achieve its purpose, the book provides technical communicators with methods of understanding oppressive structures in their daily lives and then establishes a theoretical framework for understanding social justice. Using this information, Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn directs technical communicators toward stances of activism, intersectional awareness, and coalitional action. The book’s contribution to the field is that it serves as a comprehensive introduction to social justice after the social justice turn in the field of technical communication and that it anticipates and addresses questions and criticisms that both readers and researchers may have. This book will be a great asset for anyone looking to understand technical communication after the social justice turn and ways to address social justice issues in various situations, including day-to-day interactions and the workplace.