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,
