Guest editors’ introduction to special issue: Professional communication, social justice, and the Global South

Abstract

In a nutshell, the "Global South"-like democracy, development, and many other concepts-is now the place of struggles between, on the one hand, the rhetoric of modernity and modernization together with the logic of coloniality and domination, and, on the other, the struggle for independent thought and decolonial freedom. From the perspective of the global north, the global south needs help. From the perspective of the inhabitants of those regions that are not aligned with the global north, the global south names the places where decolonial emancipations are taking place and where new horizons of life are emerging (Levander & Mignolo, 2011, pp. 4-5).

Curricular Efforts in Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn

“…This thread of work has also shaped many conference themes and panels, as in the Association of Teachers Technical Writing conferences of 2016, 2018, and 2020. It has also manifested in special issues (see Sapp et al, 2015;Savage & Agboka, 2016), edited collections (Agboka & Matveeva, 2018;Haas & Eble, 2018), and monographs (Walton et al, 2019). In 2016, for example, Savage and Agboka published the first special that included "social justice" in its title, "Professional Communication, Social Justice, and the Global South."…”

“…More so, faculty should consider engaging critical scholarly interests and emerging issues and sites that have traditionally not received a lot of attention in TPC. For example, there is intense transnational corporate activity taking place in the Global South in which technical communication plays a role (Savage & Agboka, 2016). Other directions for research include decolonial research, disability research as it impacts differently abled bodies and technical communication, queer and transgender rhetorics, constructions of normalcy, the recruitment of minority scholars and scholars of color into TPC programs, and feminist or gendered perspectives in TPC.…”

8. Creating the �Through-Line� by Engaging Industry Certification Standards in SLO Redesign for a Core Curriculum Technical Writing Course

“…We need more work here-to echo Gerald Savage and Godwin Y. Agboka (2016), "research studies and activities involving professional communication scholars in the Global South offer some of the most important and interesting, and the least investigated work, to be done in our field" (p. 6). We've come a long way in a few years, but there is so much more to be done.…”

Introduction to Special Issue on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Communication in the Context of Globalization

“…With an increasingly robust body of scholarship in transnationalism and globalization (e.g., Ding, 2014;Hunsinger, 2006;Palmer, 2013;Rice & St.Amant, 2018;Starke-Meyerring, 2005;Sun, 2012Sun, , 2020, TPC is well situated for attending to these issues. Doing so would include turning to scholarship in cultural studies , cross-cultural design (e.g., Getto & St.Amant, 2015;Getto & Sun, 2017;Sun, 2012Sun, , 2020Verhulsdonck, 2018;Wang & Gu, 2016;Walton, 2016), intercultural communication (e.g., Ding & Savage, 2013;Thatcher, 2006;Thatcher et al, 2017;Walton, 2014Walton, , 2016, translation (e.g., Batova & Clark, 2015;Gonzales, 2018;Maylath & St. Amant, 2019), and the Global South (Acharya, 2019;Agboka, 2014;Dorpenyo, 2019;Hopton & Walton, 2019;Matheson & Petersen, 2019;Pihlaja & Durá, 2020;Savage & Agboka, 2015;Smith, 2012;Walton et al, 2015).…”