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SOCIAL JUSTICE AND COMMUNICATION SCHOLARSHIP LEA’s COMMUNICATION SERIES Jenning Bryant and Dolf Zillman, General Editors Selected titles include: Berger • Planning Strategic Interaction: Attaining Goals Through Communicative Action Ellis (cid:127) Crafting Society: Ethnicity, Class, and Communication Theory Greene (cid:127) Message Production: Advances inCommunication Theory Heath/Bryant (cid:127) Human Communication Theory and Research: Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges, Second Edition Salwen/Stacks (cid:127) An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research Shepherd/Rothenbuhler (cid:127) Communication and Community SOCIAL JUSTICE AND COMMUNICATION SCHOLARSHIP Edited by Omar Swartz University of Colorado at Denver and Health Services Center Routledge Taylor &. Francis Group New York London Copyright©2005by LawrenceErlbaumAssociates,Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without prior written permission of the publisher. First Published by LawrenceErlbaumAssociates,Inc.,Publishers 10IndustrialAvenue Mahwah,NewJersey 07430 This edition published 2012 by Routledge Routledge Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Tatylor & Francis Group 711 Third Avenue 2 Park Square, Milton Park New York, NY 10017 Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN CoverdesignbyKathrynHoughtalingLacey LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Socialjusticeandcommunicationscholarship/editedbyOmarSwartz. p. cm.—(LEA’s communication series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8058-5482-7 (alk. paper) —ISBN 0-8058-5483-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Social justice. 2. Social change. 3. Communication and culture. 4. Communication in politics. 5. Communication in the family. I. Swartz, Omar. II. Series. HM671.S6532006 303.3'72—dc22 2005055208 ISBN 0-0858-5482-7/5483-5 For my wife,RuiZhao Whom I love more deeply thanever. For my son,AviZhaoSwartz May your life lightthe darkness of others. This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface ix Introduction Omar Swartz xv About the Editor xix About the Contributors xxi 1 Reflections of a Social Justice Scholar 1 Omar Swartz 2 Social Justice and the Challenge 21 for Communication Studies Amardo Rodriguez 3 Across the Great Divides: From Nonpartisan Criticism 35 to Partisan Criticism to Applied Communication Activism for Promoting Social Change and Social Justice Lawrence R. Frey 4 Communication, Charity, Social Justice, 53 and the Abolition of Homelessness Phillip K. Tompkins 5 Voice and the “Other”: Interactive Theatre 77 as a Model for Education and Liberation on University Campuses Jennifer Lyn Simpson and Rebecca Brown Adelman vii viii CONTENTS 6 Challenges of International Women of Color 105 in the United States: The Complicated “Rights” of Belonging in Globalization Raka Shome 7 A Knife of Fire: Social Justice, Real Politick, and 127 “Foreign” Policy in a New World Philip C. Wander 8 Media Activism in a “Conservative” City: Modeling 149 Citizenship Tony Palmeri 9 Social Justice in Interpersonal and Family Relationships Linda Potter Crumley 175 10 The Desire to Know and to Love Is Never Too Small: 193 My Musings on Teaching and Social Justice Wenshu Lee 11 Reflections on a Project to Promote Social Justice in 215 Communication Education and Research W. Barnett Pearce 12 Conclusion: On the Material Consequence of 239 Defining Social Justice Lee Artz Author Index 249 Subject Index 257 Preface Thisvolumearguesforembracingaturntosocialjusticeincommunication studies and displays some of the varied ways in which communication scholarshavemadethatturn.Eachchapterstipulates(someexplicitly,oth- ersimplicitly)thattherelevanceofcommunicationscholarshipshouldbe tiedtoitsinfluenceinadvancingsocialdemocraticvaluesthroughthecri- tiqueof,andattempttochange,socialinstitutionsthatpromote(orreify) poverty,hierarchy,andotherformsofsocialinequality.Forthecontributors to this volume, social justice communication research is informed by and contributestotheprogressiveideologicalandpoliticalcommitmentsofthe individualengagedinresearch. ThegenesisforthiseditedcollectionoccurredafewyearsagoasIwasin the middle of an extended research project that culminated in my recent book,InDefenseofPartisanCriticism(Swartz,2005).Inthatbook,Iargued that by embracing a social justice perspective in communication studies, scholarsdonotcastasidetheirprofessionalpersonasbut,instead,privilege anacademicworldinwhichtheytakenoneoftheirassumptionsforgranted andevaluatetherelativeworthofthoseassumptionsintermsofsocialutil- ity.Afundamentalassumptionofthattext,aswellasearlierbooksofmine, suchasConductingSociallyResponsibleResearch(Swartz,1997),isthatthere isnoworthierendformeasuringsocialutilitythantheabolishmentofsocial injustice. InwritingInDefenseofPartisanCriticism,Idiscussedmyideaswithmany of the contributors who are included in this volume. As we spoke or ex- changede-mails,wecontemplatedhowsocialjusticeismostpossiblewhen allpeoplehavethemaximumfreedomtotalkaboutwhotheyareasasoci- ety;whattheydoascitizens,consumers,andworkers;andhowtheyenvi- siontheirfuture.Fundamentaltothatfreedomisourabilityasresearchers andteacherstooffertheyoungmenandwomenoftheUnitedStatesanop- portunitytorethinktheirmoralidentitiesandrealigntheirpoliticalcom- mitments to support policies and practices that advance social justice. Energizedbytheseconversations,Iputtogetherapanelforthe2004West- ernStatesCommunicationAssociationConventioninAlbuquerque,New Mexico,apanelthatgeneratedagooddealofinterestamongtheprogres- sivescholarswhoattended.Thetimewasripetotakeourconversationsto ix
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