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In Pedagogies of the Enfleshed: Critical Communication Pedagogy Otherwise, Lore LeMaster proffers a historic account of the rise of education and, in turn, communication studies as a distinct field of study. In doing so, the author reconsiders communication’s disciplinary origins with less of an emphasis on the mythos of the Ancient Greeks and, more accurately, relocates them within the historic context of U.S. settler colonial development and ever-expanding empire. LeMaster argues that the point of critical communication pedagogy otherwise isn’t to instill critical sensibilities into our teaching, but to instead draw on lived experiences as grounds for more effective uses of communication to intervene in oppressive relations across (in)formal pedagogical contexts and in service of liberatory change. Where critical communication pedagogy calls for reform, critical communication pedagogy otherwise labors in service of liberation within the long arc of revolutionary change, beginning from y/our vantage as educators-as-learners. This is especially crucial, LeMaster posits, in the face of critical ongoing issues, including economic recessions, growing climate collapse, escalating fascisms, amassing white nationalisms, and U.S.-funded genocides, all amid an active pandemic. Ultimately, this book makes a compelling case for the need of new critical communication pedagogy tools or, at minimum, approaches to communication pedagogy that support critical worldmaking efforts beyond recognition and with resource support at the local level.

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In a world where the public is told “the professors are the enemy,” this text reinvigorates critical communication pedagogy not just as a subject but as an exigence—asking what matters, where we place ourselves in that matter, and how we will keep each other alive. Pedagogies of the Enfleshed: Critical Communication Pedagogy, Otherwise is a necessary intervention in the field of critical (intercultural) communication pedagogy. LeMaster offers a deeply personal and theoretically rich exploration that challenges the liberal underpinnings of education, urging educators to reimagine their praxis through enfleshed, liberatory frameworks. This book is a must-read for those committed to transformative pedagogy, as it refuses disciplinary complacency and envisions radical possibilities for learning and teaching. * Brandi Lawless, Professor of Communication Studies, University of San Francisco, USA * Pedagogies of the Enfleshed: Critical Communication Pedagogy, Otherwise by Lore LeMaster offers a timely reconceptualization of critical communication pedagogy that challenges the discipline's complicity in U.S. colonial and imperial history. By introducing concepts ""confrontation teaching"" and ""reflexive failure as pedagogic rehearsal,"" she provides practical frameworks for educators working against the constraints of elitist institutional legacies and extractivist economic control. Through rich autoethnographic narratives and sharp theoretical analysis, LeMaster articulates a conceptualization of critical communication pedagogy that centers communal survival and wellness over individual success and hierarchy—a welcome effort at a time when we desperately need strategies for building freer futures. * Michael Lechuga, Author of Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies (2023) * Dr. Loretta LeMaster's Pedagogies of the Enfleshed challenges us to rethink learning and knowing from an Other perspective. Grounded in feminist, queer, and trans theories, this work is deeply committed to dismantling intersecting oppressions through community activism and care—an ethic that Dr. LeMaster vulnerably enacts on the page. This is a much-needed intervention in Critical Communication Pedagogy! * Bernadette Marie Calafell, Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon, USA *

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Lore/tta LeMaster is associate professor of critical/cultural communication and performance studies in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.

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