This edited volume explores using popular culture to teach peace and justice, covering topics like racism, domestic violence, structural violence, conflict analysis, decolonization, critiques of capitalism, and peacebuilding. It includes theoretical backgrounds and concrete lessons using TV, film, music, graphic novels, and more.
Drawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume illustrates the many ways that popular culture can be used to teach peace and justice. Chapters address such topics as teaching about racism, domestic violence, structural violence, conflict analysis, decolonization, critiques of capitalism, and peacebuilding, showing how different forms of popular culture can be utilized to enhance student learning. Contributors provide both theoretical backgrounds and concrete lessons using TV, film, music, graphic novels, and more.
Acknowledgments and Dedication; Laura L. Finley.
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1. Introduction; Laura L. Finley.
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2. Using Horror Films to Teach About Structural Violence and
Nonviolent Conflict Resolution; Laura L. Finley.
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3. Runnin' From The Pharcyde and T.I.'s Warzone: Sneaking Peace and
Social Justice Into the Classroom; Wim Laven.
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4. Armageddon It Been in Effect: Utopia, Dystopia, or UNtopia? A
Conversation With Ursula K. Le Guin, Sarah Pinsker, & N. K. Jemisin; G.
Michelle Collins-Sibley.
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5. Dangerous Education: Teaching College Writing Using Nonfiction
Graphic Novels; Heidi Huse.
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6. Using Popular Culture to Teach About Domestic Abuse and Healthy
Relationships; Laura L. Finley.
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7. Stephen King's Horror Films and Child Abuse and Neglect: Lessons
to Be Learned for Understanding, Assistance, and Prevention; Laura L.
Finley.
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8. The Critiques of Structural Functionalism, Colonialism, and
Capitalism Using Violence in Modern Science Fiction Classics: The Matrix,
Alien: Resurrection, and Starship Troopers; Christian A. I. Schlaerth and
Aaron Puhrmann.
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9. Learning to Transform Conflict Through Popular Culture Analysis;
Dean J. Johnson.
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10. A Literature, Design, and Arts-Based English as a Second Language
(ESL) Classroom Model; Kyra E. Whitehead.
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11. Hearing All of the Americas: Coloniality and Authenticity in the
Music of Kendrick Lamar and Residente; Heather Rae Brady.
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12. Conclusion; Laura L. Finley.
About the Editor and Authors.
