SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bricolage, Adbusters, Cultural Capital
16 Nov 2016
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Resistance to one form of consumption often takes the form of another (e. g. adbusters, adbusters one-dot shoes) Can be read as a practice that ends up reproducing capitalist and consumer logics (e. g. new sources of distinction, spectacle, cultural capital) Ducille (1994): how barbie and multicultural barbie dolls are sites where dominant ideas and mythologies of race and gender are reproduced. Hegemony as a way that power operates in society not through coercion but through consent. Klein (2000): how artists, cultural producers and activists interrupt dominant cultural narratives through creative and expressive practices. Exploring how culture jamming can be understood as a site of resistance to dominant narratives (of consumerism, of gender, etc. ) Murthy (2010), textbook, hebdige (1979): how subcultures can be understood as sites of resistance to dominant culture. Expressing ideas and values that fall outside of the mainstream forming communities that are organized differently.
