The Routledge Handbook of Social Justice in Technical and Professional Communication

This handbook interrogates and illustrates contemporary approaches to technical and professional communication (TPC) by focusing on emerging issues in the field. Using a social justice-centered approach, the handbook provides a view of the current state of the discipline and highlights emerging directions and perspectives that will influence the trajectory of the field in the coming years. It is divided into five interrelated parts:

• Disciplinarity
• Pedagogy
• Practice
• Social Change
• Intersections: Cultures and Communities

Acknowledging that TPC is always embedded and participating in specific power structures, The Routledge Handbook of Social Justice in Technical and Professional Communication offers readers a way forward, a future imagined and re-imagined, and presents scholarship that is progress-in-process for TPC. Providing frameworks and strategies for embracing a social justice-driven approach, this handbook will be of interest to scholars, teachers, administrators, community leaders, and workplace and industry practitioners in the field of TPC.

Natasha N. Jones is an Associate Professor in African American and African Studies at Michigan State University, USA and serves as the Immediate Past President of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). She is co-author of Technical Communication after the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action (Routledge, 2019).

Laura Gonzales is an Associate Professor of Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics at the University of Florida, USA. She is the current president of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) and the author of Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication (2022).

Angela M. Haas is Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication at Illinois State University, USA and serves as Past-Past President of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). She is co-editor of Key Theoretical Frameworks: Teaching Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century (2018).

Miriam F. Williams is a Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. She is co-editor of Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication (Routledge, 2014) and author of From Black Codes to Recodification: Removing the Veil from Regulatory Writing (Routledge, 2010).