Insurgent truth : Chelsea Manning and the politics of outsider truth-telling / Lida Maxwell.
By: Maxwell, Lida [author.]
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190920067 (ebook) :Subject(s): Manning, Chelsea, 1987- | Official secrets -- United States | Leaks (Disclosure of information) -- United States | Truth -- Political aspectsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190920029DDC classification: 355.1334 LOC classification: JF1525.S4 | M39 2019Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 'Insurgent Truth' argues for the importance of outsider truth-telling to democratic politics and reads Chelsea Manning as an important contemporary outsider truth-teller. Outsider truth-tellers such as Manning tell or enact unsettling truths from a position of social illegibility. Often dismissed as in-credible by their societies, this text argues that their acts and writings reveal problems with dominant models of truth and truth-telling in politics, which often look to truth to offer a prepolitical stable common ground and align credibility with gendered, classed, and raced traits.
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Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Insurgent Truth' argues for the importance of outsider truth-telling to democratic politics and reads Chelsea Manning as an important contemporary outsider truth-teller. Outsider truth-tellers such as Manning tell or enact unsettling truths from a position of social illegibility. Often dismissed as in-credible by their societies, this text argues that their acts and writings reveal problems with dominant models of truth and truth-telling in politics, which often look to truth to offer a prepolitical stable common ground and align credibility with gendered, classed, and raced traits.
Specialized.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 21, 2019).