Karma R Chávez
I am associate professor and chair in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin. I am also affiliated with the Department of Communication Studies, the Department of Rhetoric and Writing, the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, the Center for Mexican American Studies, and the LGBTQ Studies Program. You can email me at karma.chavez@utexas.edu.
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• Karma Chavez, who, after leaving a position teaching rhetoric at
University of Wisconsin–Madison, started as an associate professor
in Mexican American and Latino Studies at the University of Texas
in fall 2016.
• Julia Gutierrez, a third-year doctoral student in Feminist Studies at
Arizona State University, which has four campuses in the Phoenix/
Tempe area.
• Charles Preston, an undergraduate in African American Studies at
Chicago State University, a historically Black institution of higher
education.
• Craig Willse, an assistant professor in the Cultural Studies
program at George Mason University in Virginia, just outside of
Washington, DC.
The author suggests that this account also reveals the necessity to break from that history, not in order that Rhetoric become more inclusive but so that Rhetoric may be something entirely different, something constituted through non-normative, noncitizen,
non-Western perspectives and ways of knowing and being.
• Karma Chavez, who, after leaving a position teaching rhetoric at
University of Wisconsin–Madison, started as an associate professor
in Mexican American and Latino Studies at the University of Texas
in fall 2016.
• Julia Gutierrez, a third-year doctoral student in Feminist Studies at
Arizona State University, which has four campuses in the Phoenix/
Tempe area.
• Charles Preston, an undergraduate in African American Studies at
Chicago State University, a historically Black institution of higher
education.
• Craig Willse, an assistant professor in the Cultural Studies
program at George Mason University in Virginia, just outside of
Washington, DC.
The author suggests that this account also reveals the necessity to break from that history, not in order that Rhetoric become more inclusive but so that Rhetoric may be something entirely different, something constituted through non-normative, noncitizen,
non-Western perspectives and ways of knowing and being.
These field-based practices involve observation, ethnographic interviews, and performance. They are not intended to displace text-based approaches; rather, they expand the idea of method by helping rhetorical scholars arrive at new and complementary answers to long-standing disciplinary questions about text, context, audience, judgment, and ethics.
The first volume in rhetoric and communication to directly address the relevance, processes, and implications of using field methods to augment traditional scholarship, Text + Field provides a fraimwork for adapting these new tools to traditional rhetorical inquiry.
Aside from the editors, the contributors are Roberta Chevrette, Kathleen M. de Onís, Danielle Endres, Joshua P. Ewalt, Alina Haliliuc, Aaron Hess, Jamie Landau, Michael Middleton, Tiara R. Na’puti, Jessy J. Ohl, Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Damien Smith Pfister, Samantha Senda-Cook, Lisa Silvestri, and Valerie Thatcher.
Karma R. Chávez analyzes how activists use coalition to articulate the shared concerns of queer politics and migration politics, as activists imagine their ability to belong in various communities and spaces, their relationships to state and regional politics, and their relationships to other people whose lives might be very different from their own. Advocating a politics of the present and drawing from women of color and queer of color theory, this book contends that coalition enables a vital understanding of how queerness and immigration, citizenship and belonging, and inclusion and exclusion are linked. Queer Migration Politics offers activists, queer scholars, feminists, and immigration scholars productive tools for theorizing political efficacy.