For today:
- Stephen Duncombe, "Introduction" to The Cultural Resistance Reader (New York: Verso, 2002)
- Theory Toolbox, Chapter 11 ('Agency')
- Zack Furness, "Alternative Media: The Art of Rebellion," in Eds. Donaldo Macedo and Shirley Steinberg, Media Literacy: A Reader (Peter Lang Publishing: New York, 2007), pp. 187-196
- REMINDER: Be sure to be working on your CASE STUDY PAPER (due by the last day of class).
Reading questions & guides:
- Guide: Agency & Cultural Resistance
- Culture Jamming on Wikipedia
- Andrew Boyd & Stephen Duncombe on activism and What we Can Learn From Las Vegas.
- Interview with Reverend Billy on the 'Church of Stop Shopping'.
- Ross Haenfler, "Rethinking Subcultural Resistance: Core Values of the Straightedge Movement," Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 33 No. 4 (2004), pp. 406-436.
- Sunaina Maira, “Henna and Hip Hop: Cultural Production and the Work of Cultural Studies,” Journal of Asian American Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2000), pp. 329-369.
- Daniel S. Traber, “L. A.’s ‘White Minority’: Punk and the Contradictions of Self-Marginalization," Cultural Critique, No. 48. (Spring, 2001), pp. 30-64.
- Stephen Duncombe, “Identity” in Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (New York: Verso, 1997).
- Fred Turner, "Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community," Technology and Culture, vol. 46 (2005): 485-512.
- Ann Hetzel Gunkel, "The Sacred in the City: Polonian Street Processions as Countercultural Practice," Polish American Studies, Vol. 60, No. 2 (2003), pp. 7-23.
- Tim Cresswell, “Mobility as Resistance: A Geographical Reading of Kerouac’s On the Road,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1993), pp. 249-262.
