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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxwell, Lida, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manning, Chelsea, 1987-.

Manning, Chelsea.

Official secrets--United States.

Official secrets.

Leaks (Disclosure of information)--United States.

Leaks (Disclosure of information).

Truth--Political aspects.

Truth.

WikiLeaks (Organization).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Acknowledgments

Preface: Cassandra and Socrates

Chapter 1: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Truth-Telling

Chapter 2: Public, Private, Insurgent: What is Outsider Truth-Telling?

Chapter 3: Chelsea Manning as Transformative Truth-Teller

Chapter 4: Anonymity as Outsider Tactic: Woolf's "Anon" and Rustin's Quiet Persistence

Chapter 5: Telling the Truth, Changing the World: Woolf's War Photographs and Manning's Collateral Murder Video

Chapter 6: "I used to only know how to write memos": The World Building Power of Outsider Security

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

0-19-092005-X

0-19-092006-8

0-19-092004-1