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Format: x, 365 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-1-4798-6950-3

Content: ""Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination" examines case studies of creative social change"--

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Volkskultur ; Kulturwandel ; Gemeinsinn ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author information: Shresthova, Sangita 1977-

Author information: Peters-Lazaro, Gabriel 1979-

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Format: 1 online resource : , 21 black and white illustrations

ISBN: 9781479891252

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: -- , Part I. How Do We Imagine a Better World -- , 1 Rebel Yell: The Metapolitics of Equality and Diversity in Disney’s Star Wars -- , 2 The Hunger Games and the Dystopian Imagination -- , 3 Spinning H. P. Lovecraft: A Villain or Hero of Our Times -- , 4 Family Sitcoms’ Political Front -- , 5 “To Hell with Dreams”: Resisting Controlling Narratives through Oscar Season -- , Part II. How Do We Imagine the Process of Change -- , 6 Imagining Intersectionality: -- , 7 Code for What -- , 8 Tracking Ida: Unlocking Black Resistance and Civic Imagination through Alternate Reality Gameplay -- , 9 Everyone Wants Peace? -- , Part III. How Do We Imagine Ourselves as Civic Agents -- , 10 Learning to Imagine Better: -- , 11 Black Girls Are from the Future: -- , 12 “Dance to the Distortion”: -- , 13 Changing the Future by Performing the Past: -- , 14 Mirroring the Misogynistic Wor(l)d: -- , 15 Reimagining the Arab Spring: From Limitation to Creativity -- , 16 DIY VR: -- , Part IV. How Do We Forge Solidarity with Others with Different Experiences Than Our Own -- , 17 Training Activists to Be Fans: -- , 18 Tonight, in This Very Ring . . . Trump vs. the Media: -- , 19 Ms. Marvel Punches Back: -- , 20 For the Horde: -- , 21 Communal Matters and Scientific Facts: -- , 22 Imagining Resistance to Trump through the Networked Branding of the National Park Service -- , Part V. How Do We Imagine Our Social Connections with a Larger Community -- , 23 Moving to a Bollywood Beat, “Born in the USA” Goes My Indian Heart? -- , 24 “Our” Hamilton: -- , 25 Participatory Action in Humans of New York -- , 26 A Vision for Black Lives in the Black Radical Tradition -- , Part VI. How Do We Bring an Imaginative Dimension to Our Real-World Spaces and Places -- , 27 “Without My City, Where Is My Past?” -- , 28 Reimagining and Mediating a Progressive Christian South -- , 29 Tzina: Symphony of Longing: -- , 30 What’s Civic about Aztlán? -- , References -- , Index -- , About the Contributors , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479891252

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479891252

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479891252

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Format: 1 online resource (198 p.) , 6 ill.

Edition: 1st, New ed.

ISBN: 9781433172670

Series Statement: New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies 83

Content: The real world is full of challenges and the sheer weight of problems facing us can stifle the genius of our collective human creativity at exactly the time when we desperately need imaginative and innovative solutions. Responding to this, Practicing Futures: A Civic Imagination Action Handbook harnesses our connections to popular culture and taps the boundless potential of human imagination to break free of assumptions that might otherwise trap us in repetitive cycles of alienation. Utopias and dystopias have long been used to pose questions, provoke discussions, and inspire next steps and are helpful because they encourage long view perspectives. Building on the work of the Civic Imagination Project at the University of Southern California, the Handbook is a practical guide for community leaders, educators, creative professionals, and change-makers who want to encourage creative, participatory, and playful approaches to thinking about the future. This book shares examples and models from the authors’ work in diverse communities. It also provides a step-by-step guide to their workshops with the objective of making their approach accessible to all interested practitioners. The tools are adaptable to a variety of local contexts and can serve multiple purposes from community and network building to idea generation and media campaign design by harnessing the expansive capacity for imagination within all of us.

Content: “From the global pandemic to climate change, looming crises urge us to pause and take an opportunity to imagine and then create a better world. But how do we take that first step of imagining a world that truly breaks free into a possible future? With advice both practical and inspirational, Practicing Futures shows us how.” —Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director of the National Writing Project

Content: “Motivating communities to imagine a just future is a powerful act of building solidarity. And yet, it is hard work to create intentional spaces for collaborative play and visioning, to bring people together to engage in deep listening and ideation on the path to shaping a better world. In Practicing Futures: A Civic Imagination Action Handbook, authors Sangita Shresthova and Gabriel Peters-Lazaro beautifully bring to life the hard work involved in inspiring collective civic imagination, taking us along on journeys of dreaming and discovery, letting us in on the ‘why’ and ‘how to’ details of fueling social change through the radical process of finding creative communion with our fellow humans.” —Caty Borum Chattoo, Executive Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact; Author of Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change, and Co-author of A Comedian and an Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice

Content: “It is all too rare to find a book this widely researched, richly theorized, and immensely practical for all of us who seek to imagine together what our shared world can be. I can’t think of a more timely or crucial contribution to civic life and learning.”—Lissa Soep, Executive Producer of Journalism + Innovation Lab and Founding Director at YRMedia

Note: List of Figures – Foreword: The Work of Imagining Communities by Henry Jenkins – Overview – About Practicing Futures – Section Two: Practice Chronicles – Fantasy Can Help Us Breathe—Muslim Youth Group, Los Angeles – Bringing Imagination to Activism—Freedom School, Los Angeles – Mind Blown! Grown Ups Freaking Out—Digital Media and Learning Conference, Boston – Em/power Love: Building Empathy and Solidarity with Each Other—Salzburg Global Seminar – Turning the Chairs to Face the Table—Bowling Green, Kentucky – Future of Faith?—Fayetteville, Arkansas – Pakistan, from the Heart: Civic Imagination in Context of Violent Extremism – Imagination in the Classroom—New Media for Social Change – Of Two Faced Bunnies in the Woods—Brussels, Belgium – Section Three: The Practice Guidebook – General Notes About Facilitation – Workshop: Origin Stories—Imagining Ourselves as Civic Agents – Workshop: Infinite Hope—Imagining a Better World – Workshop: Step into the Looking Glass—Imagining Our Social Connections with a Larger Community – Workshop: Monuments from the Future—Bringing Imaginative Dimensions to Our Real World Spaces and Places – Workshop: Remixing Stories—Forging Solidarity with Others with Different Experiences Than Our Own – Workshop: Creating an Action Plan—Imagining the Process of Change – Stories from the Field – Final Thoughts – Recommended Readings – Author Biographies – Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781433161803

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781433172700

Language: English

DOI: 10.3726/b15998

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