Harry Potter and Resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harry Potter and Resistance write by Beth Sutton-Ramspeck. This book was released on 2023-03-13. Harry Potter and Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although rule breaking in Harry Potter is sometimes dismissed as a distraction from Harry’s fight against Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and Resistance makes the case that it is central to the battle against evil. Far beyond youthful hijinks or adolescent defiance, Harry’s rebellion aims to overcome problems deeper and more widespread than a single malevolent wizard. Harry and his allies engage in a resistance movement against the corruption of the Ministry of Magic as well as against the racist social norms that gave rise to Voldemort in the first place. Dumbledore’s Army and the Order of the Phoenix employ methods echoing those utilized by World War II resistance fighters and by the U.S. Civil Rights movement. The aim of this book is to explore issues that speak to our era of heightened political awareness and resistance to intolerance. Its interdisciplinary approach draws on political science, psychology, philosophy, history, race studies, and women’s studies, as well as newer interdisciplinary fields such as resistance studies, disgust studies, and creativity studies.
Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures
Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures write by Siobhan McEvoy-Levy. This book was released on 2017-12-21. Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a rationale for and ways of reading popular culture for peace. It argues that we can improve peacebuilding theory and practice through examining popular culture’s youth revolutionaries and their outcomes - from their digital and plastic renderings to their living embodiments in local struggles for justice. The study combines insights from post-structural, post-colonial, feminist, youth studies and peace and conflict studies theories to analyze the literary themes, political uses, and cultural impacts of two hit book series – Harry Potter and The Hunger Games – tracing how these works have been transformed into visible political practices, including social justice advocacy and government propaganda in the War on Terror. Pop culture production and consumption help maintain global hierarchies of inequality and structural violence but can also connect people across divisions through fandom participation. Including chapters on fan activism, fan fiction, Guantanamo Bay detention center, youth as a discursive construct in IR, and the merchandizing and tourism opportunities connected with The Hunger Games, the book argues that through taking youth-oriented pop culture seriously, we can better understand the local, global and transnational spaces, discourses, and the relations of power, within which meanings and practices of peace are known, negotiated, encoded and obstructed.
Harry Potter
Harry Potter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harry Potter write by Ruthann Mayes-Elma. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Harry Potter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone came out in the United States in 1997; it and the six subsequent volumes have been on the New York Times bestsellers list continuously. Harry Potter no longer solely exists in books; he is everywhere dominating our world and our children’s worlds, which is why it is important to analyze just what Harry Potter is teaching our children. Although the Harry Potter series has been critiqued and analyzed by journalists and academics alike, there are fascinating gaps in the analyses. Perhaps the most rousing of these gaps is the virtual lack of attention to the ways in which J. K. Rowling has constructed gender, and the agency of the female characters, within the texts. The purpose of this book is to address this rousing gap, by critically deconstructing the representation of women’s agency by the female characters in the Harry Potter books 2-6. The study draws on all of the pre-existing theories, frameworks, underpinnings and themes that came out of the analysis that were set forth in the pilot study/first book that critically deconstructed the first Harry Potter book. There are many different books that discuss the Harry Potter phenomenon, but rarely do they analyze the books through a social justice lens, specifically looking at gender.
The Melancholy of Resistance
The Melancholy of Resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Melancholy of Resistance write by László Krasznahorkai. This book was released on 2003. The Melancholy of Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize
Playing Harry Potter
Playing Harry Potter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Playing Harry Potter write by Lisa S. Brenner. This book was released on 2015-06-25. Playing Harry Potter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through classroom activities, wizard rock concerts, and organizations like the Harry Potter Alliance, Harry Potter fans are using creativity to positively impact the world. This collection of essays and interviews examines how playful fandom--from fanfiction to Muggle quidditch, cosplay, role-playing games, and even Harry Potter burlesque--not only reimagines the canon but also challenges consumerism, questions notions of identity, and fosters participatory culture. The contributors explore issues applicable to fan studies and performance studies at large, such as the role of performance, the nature of community, and questions of representation and ownership in the digital age. Presented in three parts, the essays discuss discrepancies between sanctioned versions of Harry Potter and fan creations, the reenactment and reinterpretation of the original narrative in fan performance, and collaborative and participatory performances that break down the boundaries between actors and audiences.
