1st Edition
Cultural Production and Participatory Politics Youth, Symbolic Creativity, and Activism
Introduction – Creation as participation/participation as creation: Cultural production, participatory politics, and the intersecting lines of identification and activism
Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández and Alexandra Arráiz Matute
1. Learning connected civics: Narratives, practices, infrastructures
Mizuko Ito, Elisabeth Soep, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson and Arely Zimmerman
2. New media literacies as social action: The centrality of pedagogy in the politics of knowledge production
Korina M. Jocson
3. Public pedagogy in the creative strike: Destabilizing boundaries and re-imagining resistance in the University of Puerto Rico
Melissa Rosario
4. Educating for cultural citizenship: Reframing the goals of arts education
Paul J. Kuttner
5. The art of youth rebellion
Nathalia E. Jaramillo
6. Shooting back in the occupied territories: An anti-colonial participatory politics
Chandni Desai
7. Glyphing decolonial love through urban flash mobbing and Walking with our Sisters
Karyn Recollet
Biography
Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada, and Editor-in-chief of Curriculum Inquiry. He is Director of the Youth Research Lab and Principal Investigator of the Youth Solidarities Across Boundaries Project, a participatory action research project with Latinx and Indigenous youth in the city of Toronto, Canada. His theoretical work focuses on the relationship between creativity, decolonization, and solidarity.
Alexandra Arráiz Matute is Assistant Professor of Childhood and Youth Studies in the Institution for Interdisciplinary Studies in Carleton University, Canada. Her research and pedagogical interests lie at the intersections of identity, culture, race, migration, and (de)colonization. Her past research has focused on the importance of relationships in teaching and learning, as a site of healing and resistance for marginalized communities.
