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Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by
the Popular Culture Association 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 Beyonce 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.
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.
Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by
the Popular Culture Association 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 Beyonce 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.
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.
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