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Unsettling Literacies

Directions for literacy research in precarious times

Claire Lee
Barcode 9789811669439
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Release Date: 05/03/2022

Edition: 1st ed. 2022
Genre: Society & Culture
Sub-Genre: Social Sciences
Label: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Contributors: Claire Lee (Edited by), Chris Bailey (Edited by), Cathy Burnett (Edited by), Jennifer Rowsell (Edited by)
Language: English
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

Directions for literacy research in precarious times.

This book asks researchers what uncertainty means for literacy research, and for how literacy plays through uncertain lives.

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This book asks researchers what uncertainty means for literacy research, and for how literacy plays through uncertain lives. While the book is not focused only on COVID-19, it is significant that it was written in 2020-2021, when our authors’ and readers’ working and personal lives were thrown into disarray by stay-at-home orders. The book opens up new spaces for examining ways that literacy has come to matter in the world.

Drawing on the reflections of international literacy researchers and important new voices, this book presents re-imagined methods and theoretical imperatives. These difficult times have surfaced new communicative practices and opened out spaces for exploration and activism, prompting re-examination of relationships between research, literacy and social justice.

The book considers varied and consequential events to explore new ways to think and research literacy and to unsettle what we know and accept as fundamental to literacy research, opening ourselves up for change. It provides direction to the field of literacy studies as pressing global concerns are prompting literacy researchers to re-examine what and how they research in times of precarity.