Hi Folks,
I’m pleased to share the news that a new book has been added to the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu). This book appears in the Practices & Possibilities book series, which is edited by Aimee McClure, Kelly Ritter, Aleashia Walton, and Jagadish Paudel.
Storying Writing Center Labor for Anti-Capitalist Futures
By Genie Nicole Giaimo and Daniel Lawson
Rooted in storying and testimony, Storying Writing Center Labor offers an inclusive, theoretically grounded, labor-oriented approach to writing center scholarship and praxis. While emotional labor and other wellness-related topics have long received attention in the field, issues of precarity, austerity, workism, and related concerns remain under-examined. Marrying ethnography and storying to uncover trends and circumstances related to writing center labor, this book offers insights into the lived working experiences of writing center professionals along with actionable items for creating just, sustainable, and intentional workspaces. Importantly, Storying Writing Center Labor tackles long-established labor issues in the field that have been and continue to be exacerbated by higher education’s austerity politics and reliance on disaster capitalism to inform decision making.
You can find the book at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/storying/. This book, like other books published by the Clearinghouse, will be available in a print edition from University Press of Colorado in the coming months. Thanks to Genie and Daniel for their work on the book and for their decision to share it with us as an open-access publication. Thanks as well to the anonymous peer reviewers who contributed to its development.
All the best,
Mike
Mike Palmquist
Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse
Emeritus Professor, Associate Provost, and
University Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Colorado State University
Email: Mike.Palmquist
