31.1421, Books: Grassroots Literacy and the Written Record: Trimbur

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:33:58
From: Elinor Robertson [Elinor at Multilingual-Matters.com]
Subject: Grassroots Literacy and the Written Record: Trimbur

 


Title: Grassroots Literacy and the Written Record 
Subtitle: A Textual History of Asbestos Activism in South Africa 
Series Title: Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788926805 


Author: John Trimbur

Hardback: ISBN:  9781788926805 Pages: 200 Price: U.S. $ 139.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781788926805 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 99.95


Abstract:

This book examines how asbestos activists living in remote rural villages in
South Africa activated metropolitan resources of representation at the
grassroots level in a quest for justice and restitution for the catastrophic
effects on their lives caused by the asbestos industry. It follows the
Asbestos Interest Group (AIG) over a fifteen-year period through its
involvement in grassroots research, in legal cases and in the compensation
systems for asbestos-related disease. It examines how the AIG became
grassroots technicians of translocal paperwork, moving texts back and forth
between periphery and center, pushing documents through the textual mazeways
of the courts, medical institutions, the compensation system and various
government agencies. The book addresses rhetorical mobility and the extent to
which, given the AIG’s position on the periphery, it has been able to enter
the voices and interests of villagers into formerly inaccessible forums of
deliberation and decision-making.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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