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Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change
Ort / Verlag
NYU Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
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.