Researching Protest Literacies - Literacy as Protest in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro (Hardcover)

By focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents, social movements, and media producers to policy changes implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, this book studies the development of literacy as a tool to mobilize, perform, and disseminate protest. Researching Protest Literacies presents a combination of ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research to analyse how traditional and technology-driven literacy practices informed a new cycle of social protest in favelas from 2006-2016. Chapters trace nuanced interactions, document changing power balances, and in doing so conceptualize five forms of literacy used to enact social change - campaigning literacies, memorial literacies, media-activist literacies, arts-activist literacies, and demonstration literacies. Building on these, the study posits protest literacies as a new way of researching the role of contemporary literacy in protest. This insightful monograph would be of interest to doctoral students, researchers, and scholars involved in the fields of literacy studies, arts education, and social movement studies, as well as those looking into research methods in education and international literacies more broadly.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Literacy
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Jamie D. I. Duncan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-37401-3
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-367-37401-3
Barcode:	9780367374013

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