"To Hell With Civility": Adversarial Educational Research in a Post-Truth Age

• In Event: 47.097 - Sheraton Roundtable Session Eight - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 47.097-8 - Truth-Telling in Contemporary Events

Abstract

In this paper, we present a preliminary genealogy of the current “post-truth” era, which evolved from U.S. propaganda and public relations techniques of the early twentieth century. We also build on parrhēsia, or truth-telling, (Foucault, 2011) as an ethics of adversarial public and political scholarship to subvert the post-truth policyscape. Finally, we critically analyze racialized, gendered, elitist calls from the political right and left for “civility” in opposing Trump and his vicious policy agenda and the implications for educational researchers as we work in and against our post-truth times.

Authors

• Jim Burns, Florida International University

• Colin D. Green, The George Washington University

• Jaime Nolan, Washington State University - Pullman