ampampnbspIn After the Public Turn author Frank Farmer argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublicscitizen bricoleursdeserve 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.ampampnbsp Farmer examines two very different kinds of publics cultural and disciplinary and discusses two counterpublics within those broad categories zine discourses and certain academic discourses. By juxtaposing these two significantly different kinds of publics Farmer suggests that each discursive world can be seen in its own distinct way as a counterpublic an oppositional social formation that has a stake in widening or altering public life as we know it.