After the Public Turn

 In After the Public Turn , author Frank Farmer argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublics—“citizen bricoleurs”—deserve a more prominent role in our scholarship and in our classrooms. Encouraging students to understand and consider resistant or oppositional discourse is a viable route toward mature participation as citizens in a democracy.  Farmer examines two very different kinds of publics, cultural and disciplinary, and discusses two counterpublics within thos