LABR 1F99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Student Protest
23 Feb 2016
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Cultural resistance: practice of using meanings and symbols that is, culture to contest and combat a dominant power, often constructing a different vision of the world in the process. Modes of cultural expression: banners, song, theatre, dance, painting. Working class cultures of resistance: culture of labour movement and working class politics and of working class subcultures, such as punk/hip hop music. There are cultures which have bubbled up from below, from working class ppl themselves, not from society"s dominant institutions and class. From slave songs to cultural expressions of unions and lm to working class subcultures. One view: power as rooted in control of resources (derives from those who have resources) Control of economic resources (wealth), force and other coercive resources (authority) or institutional positions that yield these resources. Employers over employees, landlords over tenants, principles over students, university admin over students and education workers etc.
