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

Title
Insurgent truth : Chelsea Manning and the politics of outsider truth-telling / Lida Maxwell.
Author
Maxwell, Lida
Publication
  • New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Book/TextUse in library JFD 19-5578Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
xvi, 202 pages; 22 cm
Summary
"This book is about Chelsea Manning's leaking of government documents. Manning told the truth about war and a social order sustained by it. Her truth-telling also revealed the complicity of public and private in casting her - a non-gender-conforming individual - as an improper truth-teller. And Manning's truth-telling unsettled hierarchies of truth-telling that prop up a discriminatory and often oppressive social order. I read Manning not as an isolated political actor, but instead as an outsider truth-teller within a cohort of outsider truth-tellers (such as Virginia Woolf, Bayard Rustin, Audre Lorde), whose practices are distinct yet connected, and whose significance becomes more apparent when read in conjunction with each other"--
Alternative Title
Chelsea Manning and the politics of outsider truth-telling
Subject
  • Manning, Chelsea, 1987-
  • Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
  • Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
  • Lorde, Audre
  • WikiLeaks (Organization)
  • Official secrets > United States
  • Leaks (Disclosure of information) > United States
  • Truth > Political aspects
  • Transgender women > United States > Biography
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative
  • PHILOSOPHY / Political
  • Leaks (Disclosure of information)
  • Official secrets
  • Transgender women
  • United States
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface: Cassandra and Socrates -- Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Truth-Telling -- Public, Private, Insurgent: What is Outsider Truth-Telling? -- Chelsea Manning as Transformative Truth-Teller -- Anonymity as Outsider Tactic: Woolf's "Anon" and Rustin's Quiet Persistence -- Telling the Truth, Changing the World: Woolf's War Photographs and Manning's Collateral Murder Video -- "I used to only know how to write memos": The World Building Power of Outsider Security .
Call Number
JFD 19-5578
ISBN
  • 9780190920036
  • 0190920033
  • 9780190920029
  • 0190920025
LCCN
2018058376
OCLC
1080546659
Author
Maxwell, Lida, author.
Title
Insurgent truth : Chelsea Manning and the politics of outsider truth-telling / Lida Maxwell.
Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 19-5578
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