<p><b><i>Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association</i></b><br/><b>How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change</b><br/>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. <br/>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,
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