Insurgent truth : Chelsea Manning and the politics of outsider truth-telling /

'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 di...

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Main Author:	Maxwell, Lida
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Subjects:	Manning, Chelsea, > 1987- WikiLeaks (Organization) Lorde, Audre Rustin, Bayard, > 1912-1987 Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 Official secrets > United States. Leaks (Disclosure of information) > United States. Truth > Political aspects. Secrets d'État > États-Unis. Fuites (Divulgation d'informations) > États-Unis. Vérité > Aspect politique. HISTORY > Military > Other. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science. Official secrets Leaks (Disclosure of information) United States Electronic books.
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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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (225 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780190920067 0190920068 9780190920043 0190920041