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Reclaiming the Rural equips teachers with the perspectives, histories, and pedagogies we and our students need if we are to have a democratic voice in how our food is produced, how resources are extracted, how the environment is protected.
—Nancy Welch, Department of English, Chair, United Academics Delegates Assembly |
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With Reclaiming the Rural, Donehower, Hogg and Schell set a sustainable agenda for rural literacy studies in the years ahead . . . The main message—that rural students deserve language education that can help them voice the interests of their communities—stands as a model for educators everywhere.
—Deborah Brandt, author of Literacy in American Lives |
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Eileen Schell Co-Publishes Reclaiming the Rural
The Writing Program is pleased to announce that Director and Chair Eileen Schell has recently published Reclaiming the Rural: Essays on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy. |
The book, co-edited with Kim Donehower and Charlotte Hogg, is a diverse collection of essays that consider literacy, rhetoric, and pedagogy in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
According to the Southern Illinois University Press, “The essays move beyond the typical arguments for preserving, abandoning, or modernizing by analyzing how rural communities sustain themselves through literate action. The contributors explore the rhetorics of water disputes in the  western United States, the histories and influences of religious rhetorics in Mexico, agricultural and rural literacy curricula, the literacies of organizations such as 4-H and Academia de la Nueva Raza, and neoliberal rhetorics. Central to these examinations are the rural populations themselves, which include indigenous peoples in the rural United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as those of European or other backgrounds.
The strength of the anthology lies in its multiple perspectives, various research sites, and the range of methodologies employed . . . Reclaiming the Rural reflects the continually changing, nuanced, context-dependent realities of rural life while acknowledging the complex histories, power struggles, and governmental actions that have affected and continue to affect the lives of rural citizens. This thought-provoking collection demonstrates the value in reclaiming the rural for scholarly and pedagogical analysis.”
Schell adds, "This volume continues and deepens the conversations about rural literacies that Kim Donehower, Charlotte Hogg, and I started in our first book Rural Literacies (SIUP, 2007). I'm excited to see the ways that contributors in Reclaiming the Rural have widened and complicated the scope of our initial inquiries."
The collection includes essays by Composition and Cultural Rhetoric doctoral candidate Carolyn Ostrander and alumnus Damian Baca ('05). |
The spatial turn in humanities and social science scholarship has given colleagues in rhetorical and writing studies a productive framework for re-envisioning the complexities of literacy. Yet, as Reclaiming the Rural rightly insists, this turn will remain incomplete until we correct the longstanding metropolitan bias in literacy research. Donehower, Hogg, Schell and their contributors embrace this challenge with astonishing resourcefulness.
—Peter Mortensen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Reclaiming the Rural represents an incredibly important volume in its call to re-imagine and re-read, in the broadest possible sense, rural people, communities and society. This volume is fundamentally multi-disciplinary in scope and should be essential reading for scholars, educators, activists and anyone interested in the sustainability and well-being of rural people and places in the twenty-first century.
—Kai A. Schafft, Associate Professor of Education, Penn State University and Editor, Journal of Research in Rural Education |
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