Jamie D I Duncan

Researching Protest Literacies

Literacy as Protest in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780367374013
• ISBN-10: 0367374013
• Artikelnr.: 59985037

Autorenporträt

Jamie D. I. Duncan completed his PhD at Lancaster Literacy Research Center, Lancaster University, UK. His academic research is situated within the ethnographic and historical traditions of the New Literacy Studies and his professional background includes work in the UK and Brazil across the fields of social housing, adult education, and applied linguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction and Background
1. Wheres and Whys of Researching Protest Literacies
2. Socio-Political Contexts: Brazil, Rio, and Maré
3. Methodological Approaches: Ethnography and History
Part II: An Emerging Cycle of Protest 2006-2013
4. Symbolization Trajectories and Campaigning Literacies
5. Memorialization Trajectories and Memorial Literacies
6. Memorialization Trajectories and Media-Activist Literacies
Part III: A Continuing Cycle of Protest 2014-2016
7. Mega-Events and Arts-Activist Literacies
8. Protest Events and Demonstration Literacies
9. Periods of Protest and Protest Literacies
Part IV: Conclusions and Contributions
10. Protest Studies Through Literacy Studies