Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination : : Case Studies of Creative Social Change / / ed. by Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Alarcón, Andrea,; Banet-Weiser, Sarah,; Billard, Thomas J.,; Callison, Candis,; Duncombe, Stephen,; Elsayed, Yomna,; Ford, Sam,; Gipson, Brooklyne,; Gray, Jonathan,; Harris, Christopher,; Jenkins, Henry,; Kelvin, Jocelyn,; Kim, Donna Do-own,; Lee, Clifford,; Lee, Diana,; Levitt, Lauren,; Lopez, Rogelio Alejandro,; Miller, Joan,; Miller, Taylor Cole,; Mischie, Ioana,; Moran, Rachel E.,; Parikh, Tapan,; Pathak-Shelat, Manisha,; Peters-Lazaro, Gabriel,; Proctor, William,; Saler, Michael,; Sarkissian, Raffi,; Schnekloth, Clint,; Sengupta, Paromita,; Shresthova, Sangita,; Soep, Elisabeth,; Wanzo, Rebecca,; Wart, Sarah Van,; Yang, Emilia,; Zidani, Sulafa,; Zuckerman, Ethan,
• HerausgeberIn: Jenkins, Henry,; Peters-Lazaro, Gabriel,; Shresthova, Sangita,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 21 black and white illustrations
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781479891252; 9783110722703
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479891252.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro.

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.