Rachel Riedner is assistant professor of university writing at The George Washington University. Kevin Mahoney is associate professor of composition at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

Democracies to Come may prove particularly useful for community engaged educators, activists, and composition scholars as it leaves us with lists of questions that lead to reflective praxis. . . .Whether we work with non-profits or individual community members, in correctional facilities or with activist organizations, Democracies to Come provides ways to understand our everyday work with language as action that has the potential to rupture geo-political and shift geopolitical systems. It provides a path toward critically engaging across the individual and systemic, as well as the local and global, a challenging move because of the neoliberal frameworks which conscribe our work and relationships, but a necessary move if we wish to work toward 'the out to be.'

• Chapter 1 Table of ContentsChapter 2 ForewordChapter 3 PrefaceChapter 4 AcknowledgmentsChapter 5 1 IntroductionChapter 6 2 Articulating Action in a Neoliberal WorldChapter 7 3 Circulation of Affect in University SpacesChapter 8 4 Circulation of BenevolenceChapter 9 5 Affective Intervention: Rhetorics of Despair and HopeChapter 10 6 "The War for the Word has Begun"Chapter 11 BibliographyChapter 12 Index

Rachel Riedner is assistant professor of university writing at The George Washington University. Kevin Mahoney is associate professor of composition at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

Democracies to Come may prove particularly useful for community engaged educators, activists, and composition scholars as it leaves us with lists of questions that lead to reflective praxis. . . .Whether we work with non-profits or individual community members, in correctional facilities or with activist organizations, Democracies to Come provides ways to understand our everyday work with language as action that has the potential to rupture geo-political and shift geopolitical systems. It provides a path toward critically engaging across the individual and systemic, as well as the local and global, a challenging move because of the neoliberal frameworks which conscribe our work and relationships, but a necessary move if we wish to work toward 'the out to be.'

• Chapter 1 Table of ContentsChapter 2 ForewordChapter 3 PrefaceChapter 4 AcknowledgmentsChapter 5 1 IntroductionChapter 6 2 Articulating Action in a Neoliberal WorldChapter 7 3 Circulation of Affect in University SpacesChapter 8 4 Circulation of BenevolenceChapter 9 5 Affective Intervention: Rhetorics of Despair and HopeChapter 10 6 "The War for the Word has Begun"Chapter 11 BibliographyChapter 12 Index