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Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination : Case Studies of Creative Social 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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Popular culture and the civic imagination: foundations / Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, and Sangita Shresthova
- Part I How do we imagine a better world?
- Rebel yell: the metapolitics of equality and diversity in Disney's Star Wars / William Proctor
- Hunger games and the dystopian imagination / Lauren Levitt
- Spinning H.P. Lovecraft: A villain or hero of our times? / Michael Saler
- Family sitcoms' political gront / Taylor Cole Miller and Jonathan Gray
- "To hell with dreams": resisting controlling narratives through Oscar season / Raffi Sarkissian
- Part II How do we imagine the process of change?
- Imagining intersectionality: girl empowerment and the radical monarchs / Sarah Banet-Weiser
- Code for what? / Elisabeth Soep, Clifford Lee, Sarah Van Wart, and Tapan Parikh
- Tracking Ida: unlocking black resistance and civic imagination through alternate reality gameplay / Emilia Yang
- Everyone wants peace? Contending imaginaries in the Colombian context of peace creation / Andrea Alarcón
- Part III How do we imagine ourselves as civic agents?
- Learning to imagine better: a letter to J.K. Rowling from Cho Chang / Diana Lee
- Black girls are from the future: #BlackGirlMagic as an extension of the black radical imagination / Brooklyne Gipson
- "Dance to the Distortion": the Queens of Pop vs. Donald Trump / Jocelyn Kelvin
- Changing the future by performing the past: Budhan theatre and transformation of youth identities / Manisha Pathak-Shelat
- Mirroring the misogynistic wor(l)d: civic imagination and speech mirroring strategy in Korea's online feminist movement / Donna Do-own Kim
- Reimagining the Arab spring: from limitation to creativity / Yomna Elsayed and Sulafa Zidani
- DIY VR: Google cardboard's handmade approach to imagining the future of immersive technology / Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
- Part IV How do we forge solidarity with others with different experiences than our own?
- Training activists to be fans: "the moral equivalent" of pop culture / Stephen Duncombe
- Tonight, in this very ring ... Trump vs. the media: pro wrestling as articulation of civic imagination / Sam Ford
- Ms. Marvel punches back: twenty-first-century superheroes and alienated citizenship / Rebecca Wanzo
- For the horde: violent "trolling" as a preemptive strike via #GamerGate and the #AltRight / Joan Miller
- Communal matters and scientific facts: making sense of climate change / Candis Callison
- Imagining resistance to Trump through the networked branding of the National Park Service / Rachel E. Moran and Thomas J. Billard
- Part V How do we imagine our social connections with a larger community?
- Moving to a Bollywood beat, "Born in the USA" goes my Indian heart? Exploring possibility and imagination through Hindi film dance / Sangita Shresthova
- "Our" Hamilton: reimagining the founders for a "Diverse America" / Henry Jenkins
- Participatory action in humans of New York / Paromita Sengupta
- Vision for black lives in the black radical tradition / Christopher Harris
- Part VI How do we bring an imaginative dimension to our real-world spaces and places?
- "Without my city, where is my past?" / Ethan Zuckerman
- Reimagining and mediating a progressive Christian south / Clint Schnekloth
- Tzina: Symphony of Longing: using volumetric VR to archive the nostalgic imaginaries of the marginal / Ioana Mischie
- What's civic about Aztlan? Reflections on the Chican@ Promised Land / Rogelio Alejandro Lopez
- References
- Index
- About the contributors