Week 10: The Politics of Culture

Question 1

Stocker, “An Invitation to Action.”

Answer 1

-Case studies focus on youth-led, solution-oriented social movements that are artful, inclusive, and collaborative
- Intersectional in their approach

Question 2

Emic

Answer 2

“insider” approach

Question 3

Etic

Answer 3

“outsider” approach

Question 4

Millennial Movements

Answer 4

1. Placemaking, Community-Building, and Appropriation of Public Space
2. Urban Environmental Sustainability and Eradication of Sexism
3. Growers’ Markets, Local Foods, and Sustainable Business Models
4. A Pay-it-Forward Strategy to Combat Food Insecurity
5. Successful Offshoots of a Supposedly Failed Movement
6. LGBTQ+ Activism in the Long Term
7. An Invitation to Action

Question 5

Connections and Themes (Ch 8 Millennial Movements)

Answer 5

• Youth-led social movements
• Proactive, collaborative, and solution-oriented
• Intersectional
• Small scale and local, but often connected to wider global movements and concerns (“glocal”)
• Mutual support and “translatable”
• Artful

Question 6

Intersectionality

Answer 6

The concept of intersectionality describes the ways in which systems of inequality based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, class and other forms of discrimination “intersect” to create unique dynamics and effects.

Question 7

Types of Community

Answer 7

Community of proximity
Community of identity
Community of purpose
Community of circumstance
Virtual Community

Question 8

Some student group examples

Answer 8

Students against sweatshops
Buy nothing day
Campus safety initiatives like
Safe Walk