%0 Journal Article
%T A Social Justice Theory of Active Equality for Technical Communication
%A Jared S. Colton
%A Steve Holmes
%J Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
%@ 1541-3780
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0047281616647803
%X Certain aspects of social justice research tacitly work from political frameworks of ¡°passive equality.¡± Passive equality can limit a technical communicator¡¯s ability to enact social justice in terms of (a) signaling the presence of an injustice and (b) waiting for the organization, institution, or state to make the correction (e.g., liberalism¡¯s distributive justice). By contrast, this article foregrounds the political philosophy of Jacques Ranci¨¨re as a way to cultivate a practice of ¡°active equality¡± that enables technical communicators to enact social justice rather than wait for institutional redistribution
%K equality
%K social justice
%K Ranci¨¨re
%K closed captioning
%K politics
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0047281616647803