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The Third Turn Toward the Social: Nancy Welch’s Living Room , Tony Scott’s Dangerous Writing , and Rhetoric and Composition’s Turn toward Grassroots Political Activism

Kelly Kinney, Thomas Girshin, and Barrett Bowlin

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This review essay examines recent texts by Nancy Welch and Tony Scott, both of which use embodied activism as a starting point for their inquiries. Taken together, these works point to a distinct shift in composition studies’ turn toward the social, one that calls on workers both within and outside the academy to actively engage in grassroots political struggle.

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2010
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