{"id":16557,"date":"2013-03-11T00:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T00:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=16557"},"modified":"2024-10-19T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T18:02:42","slug":"articles_shearer-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16557","title":{"rendered":"Articles by Heather Shearer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shearer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-86459\" src=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shearer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Heather Shearer<\/strong> is the Associate Chair of the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her paper entitled &#8220;Crossing into the Promised Land: An Activity-Theoretical Analysis of Application Paperwork Used by Peoples Temple Members for Entry into Jonestown,&#8221; was presented as part of a larger panel called &#8220;Bodies in Rhetorical Space: Discursive Bias and the Transgression of Physical and Social Spaces&#8221; at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference.<\/p>\n<p>She is also the author of an extensive profile of Marceline Jones published in 2020 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/wrldrels.org\/2020\/09\/08\/marceline-jones\/\">World Religions and Spirituality Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shearer can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:hshearer@ucsc.edu\">hshearer@ucsc.edu<\/a> or at <a href=\"mailto:HMShearer@gmail.com\">HMShearer@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=121081\">\u201cVerbal Orders Don\u2019t Go\u2014Write It!\u201d: Building and Maintaining the Promised Land<\/a> (2018; republished January 2023)  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=86432\"><em>Cult City<\/em>: A Review Essay<\/a> (2019) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81891\">The value of the archive<\/a> (2018) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40215\">Why \u201cthe ordinary\u201d is extraordinarily important: Researching Peoples Temple and Jonestown through the experience of the rank-and-file members<\/a> (2013)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29452\">Reflection on Jonestown Memorial Dedication<\/a> (2011)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30333\">The Textual Practices of Peoples Temple: How Did Texts Help to Build the Promised Land?<\/a> (2010)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":16576,"menu_order":66,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16557","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16557"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128733,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16557\/revisions\/128733"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}