Dancing in Moonlight: Resisting Precarity Through Pedagogies of Multimodality, Critical Circulation Literacy, and Queer Futurity

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Two
  In Roundtable Session: Pedagogies and Praxes of Transformation: Envisioning Agency and Embracing Community-Based Knowledges (Table 1)

Abstract

In this paper, we bring together notions of precarity and critical circulation studies to envision critical circulation literacy (CCL). We define CCL as reading and writing the world through awareness of how the movement of text, language, rhetoric, and discourse in social, literary, and rhetorical ecologies shapes, is impelled by, reinforces, or disrupts power structures. Policies and programs including those like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, standardized testing, prescribed mainstream curriculum and pedagogy socialize “peculiar and particular” (Preston, 2015) behaviors and skill development that often trouble students’ embodied literacy practices, creating precarity. This project aims to confront such precarity by forwarding a CCL Framework that honors and creates space for pluralistic, multimodal, and queer ways of being and being literate.

Authors

• Samuel Burmester, The George Washington University
  Presenting Author

• Arshad Imtiaz Ali, The George Washington University
  Presenting Author