66.061 - Cultural Production and Participatory Politics: Practices, Intersections, and Pedagogies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The panel brings together a group of presenters examining the relationship between cultural production and participatory politics in a wide range of national and political contexts. The focus will include how youth engage cultural production as part of the political participation, and how political participation is sometimes central in and expressed through cultural production. Presenters will offer their analysis of these intersections, and provide illustrative examples of the intersections between cultural production and participatory politics. The aim is to bring together a range of approaches to the examination of these intersections as well as provide broad illustrations of the complexities involved in these processes. Moreover, presenters will engage the educational implications of these dynamics, both within and beyond schools.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chair

• Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, University of Toronto - OISE

Papers

• Educating for Cultural Citizenship - Paul Kuttner, University of Utah

• The Art of Social Change: Cultural Production and Youth in the Bolivarian Revolution - Nathalia E Jaramillo, Kennesaw State University

• Political Protests in Palestine as a Site of Cultural Production - Chandni Desai, OISE/University of Toronto

• New Media Literacies as Social Action: Youth Engaging in the Politics of Knowledge Production - Korina Jocson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Public Pedagogy in the Creative Strike: Destabilizing Boundaries and Reimagining Resistance at the University of Puerto Rico - Melissa Rosario, Bowdoin College

• Learning Digital-Age Civics: Pathways From Cultural Production to Organizing, Mobilization, and Activation - Elisabeth M. Soep, Youth Radio; Mizuko Ito, University of California - Irvine

Discussant

• Alexandra Arraiz Matute, University of Toronto - OISE