Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

Chock’s work is imperative for TPC designers to read and engage. For TPC instructors interested in using a design justice orientation in their courses, the section on pedagogies gives concrete examples of how to use design justice in teaching. For those involved in community-engaged work, the design justice framework becomes both a useful heuristic and practical guide in these spaces. For those TPC scholars studying online spaces or digital technologies, the narratives, values, and sites sections give ample ideas, concrete actions, theory, and foundational research behind this design justice lens. What the social justice turn in TPC (Jones et. al., 2016; Walton, Moore, & Jones, 2019) and design justice efforts are, in part, asking us to do is bring tacit knowledge to the forefront, to make explicit how technical documents, infrastructure, and technological design privilege and benefit certain users while oppressing or disenfranchising others, and to pay more attention to how what we create is not neutral. Costanza-Chock deftly and expertly does just that.