Rhetoric and Technical Communication in Hope VI - An Analysis of Race and Participatory Capture in U.s. Housing

This book provides a rhetorical analysis of HOPE VI, a federal mixed-income, public housing program. The author addresses the phenomenon of participatory capture that worsened inequality, prompting a reconsideration, rhetorical and otherwise, of what it means to participate in America's cities.

List of contents

Chapter 1
HOPE VI, Participatory Capture, and Technical Communication
Chapter 2
Justifying "A New Era of Cooperation": Participation, Diversity, and Legitimation in HOPE VI
Chapter 3
"Broader Horizons": Deficit and Governance Models in HOPE VI Community Building
Chapter 4
Voice, Sovereignty, and Information Design in HOPE VI Newsletters
Chapter 5
Choice, Resident Spotlights, and Steps Toward Sovereign Rhetoric
Chapter 6
Implications for Teaching, Public Policy and Engagement, and Future Research

About the author

Christopher J. Morris is assistant professor of writing at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Summary

This book provides a rhetorical analysis of HOPE VI, a federal mixed-income, public housing program. The author addresses the phenomenon of participatory capture that worsened inequality, prompting a reconsideration, rhetorical and otherwise, of what it means to participate in America’s cities.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Morris, Christopher J. Morris, Morris Christopher J.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781666946857
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-685-7
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Urban & municipal planning, Communication Studies, United States of America, USA, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc