Popular Culture And The Civic Imagination
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Popular Culture And The Civic Imagination
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Author : Henry Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-02-04
Popular Culture And The Civic Imagination written by Henry Jenkins and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Social Science categories.
How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we’re fighting for—not just what we’re fighting against. Across more than thirty examples from social movements around the world, this casebook proposes “civic imagination” as a framework that can help us identify, support, and practice new kinds of communal participation. As the contributors demonstrate, young people, in particular, are turning to popular culture—from Beyoncé to Bollywood, from Smokey Bear to Hamilton, from comic books to VR—for the vernacular through which they can express their discontent with current conditions. A young activist uses YouTube to speak back against J. K. Rowling in the voice of Cho Chang in order to challenge the superficial representation of Asian Americans in children’s literature. Murals in Los Angeles are employed to construct a mythic imagination of Chicano identity. Twitter users have turned to #BlackGirlMagic to highlight the black radical imagination and construct new visions of female empowerment. In each instance, activists demonstrate what happens when the creative energies of fans are infused with deep political commitment, mobilizing new visions of what a better democracy might look like.
By Any Media Necessary
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Author : Henry Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2016-05-03
By Any Media Necessary written by Henry Jenkins and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Education categories.
"There is a widespread perception that the foundations of American democracy are dysfunctional and little is likely to emerge from traditional politics that will shift those conditions. Youth are often seen as emblematic of this crisis--frequently represented as uninterested in political life and ill-informed about current-affairs. By Any Media Necessary offers a profoundly different picture of contemporary American youth. Young men and women are tapping into the potential of new forms of communication, such as social media platforms and spreadable videos and memes, seeking to bring about political change--by any media necessary. In a series of case studies covering a diverse range of organizations, networks, and movements--from the Harry Potter Alliance, which fights for human rights in the name of the popular fantasy franchise, to immigration-rights advocates using superheroes to dramatize their struggles--By Any Media Necessary examines the civic imagination at work. Exploring new forms of political activities and identities emerging from the practice of participatory culture, By Any Media Necessary reveals how these shifts in communication have unleashed a new political dynamism in American youth."--Book jacket.
Art And The City
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Author : Sarah Schrank
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Art And The City written by Sarah Schrank and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Art categories.
"Art and the City" explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles. Struggles between civic leaders and modernist artists to define civic identity and control public space highlight the significance of the arts as a site of political contest in the twentieth century.
Civic Imagination
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Author : Gianpaolo Baiocchi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-17
Civic Imagination written by Gianpaolo Baiocchi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Political Science categories.
The Civic Imagination provides a rich empirical description of civic life and a broader discussion of the future of democracy in contemporary America. Over the course of a year, five researchers observed and participated in 7 civic organisations in a mid-sized US city. They draw on this ethnographic evidence to map the 'civic imaginations' that motivate citizenship engagement in America today. The book unpacks how contemporary Americans think about and act toward positive social and political change while the authors' findings challenge contemporary assertions of American apathy. This will be an important book for students and academics interested in political science and sociology.
Popular Culture In The Age Of White Flight
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Author : Eric Avila
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-04
Popular Culture In The Age Of White Flight written by Eric Avila and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04 with History categories.
"In Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, Eric Avila offers a unique argument about the restructuring of urban space in the two decades following World War II and the role played by new suburban spaces in dramatically transforming the political culture of the United States. Avila's work helps us see how and why the postwar suburb produced the political culture of 'balanced budget conservatism' that is now the dominant force in politics, how the eclipse of the New Deal since the 1970s represents not only a change of views but also an alteration of spaces."—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Youth And Popular Culture In Africa
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Author : Paul Ugor
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021
Youth And Popular Culture In Africa written by Paul Ugor and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
"The edited collection focuses on the links between young people and African popular culture. It explores popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. And by "culture," we mean all kinds of texts or representations-visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual-created by African youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public, and shared locally and globally. We proceed from the premise that cultural texts not only function as "social facts" as Karin Barber argues, but that they double as "commentaries upon, and interpretations of, social facts. They are part of social reality, but they also take up an attitude to social reality" (2007, 04). So, the work focuses specifically on what African youth produce as popular culture, under what conditions or contexts they produce such work, how they produce those texts, why they produce them, the aesthetic dimensions of these texts as cultural artifacts, and why these textual practices matter as social facts, as interpretive acts, and as cultural symbols of the general cultural activism of young people in a rapidly changing world, a world where the global cultural economy is the prime terrain for the relentless struggles over the meanings that come to shape political-economic and social systems"--
Practicing Futures
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Author : Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2020
Practicing Futures written by Gabriel Peters-Lazaro and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Civics categories.
Practicing Futures: A Civic Imagination Action Handbook is a practical guide for community leaders, educators, creative professionals and change-makers who want to sharpen their visions for the future and understandings of the how the past affects them.
Imagining The Global
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Author : Fabienne Darling-Wolf
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2015
Imagining The Global written by Fabienne Darling-Wolf and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Social Science categories.
A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global
National Identity Popular Culture And Everyday Life
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Author : Tim Edensor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-15
National Identity Popular Culture And Everyday Life written by Tim Edensor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-15 with Social Science categories.
The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture?This book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life. National identity is revealed to be inherent in the things we often take for granted - from landscapes and eating habits, to tourism, cinema and music. Our specific experience of car ownership and motoring can enhance a sense of belonging, whilst Hollywood blockbusters and national exhibitions provide contexts for the ongoing, and often contested, process of national identity formation. These and a wealth of other cultural forms and practices are explored, with examples drawn from Scotland, the UK as a whole, India and Mauritius. This book addresses the considerable neglect of popular cultures in recent studies of nationalism and contributes to debates on the relationship between ‘high' and ‘low' culture.
Popular Culture In The Ancient World
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Author : Lucy Grig
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017
Popular Culture In The Ancient World written by Lucy Grig and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
This book adopts a new approach to the classical world by focusing on ancient popular culture.