Beyond the Makerspace, Making and Relational Rhetorics

Author

Shivers-McNair; Ann

Year

2021

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-0-47205-485-5

Link

Last Update

04-Feb-2026

Keywords

Language & Literature

Description

The theories, methodologies, practices, and relationships in this project are as much a part of the study phenomenon as the acts of making I examine. This chapter accounts for how I make knowledge in relation to theoretical traditions and in relation to the communities this project engages. I begin by situating rhetoric in relation to making, because readers who come to this book from perspectives outside of the areas of rhetoric, composition studies, and technical and professional communication may be wondering what rhetoric has to do with a study of making. After all, in everyday language, “rhetoric” is usually synonymous...