PEACJUST 2C03
PEACE, JUSTICE, AND POPULAR CULTURE
This course investigates how and why popular culture and media normalize or challenge inequities, injustice, and ecological destruction in historical and contemporary contexts. Lectures …
Winter 2026 · C01
This course investigates how and why popular culture and media normalize or challenge inequities, injustice, and ecological destruction in historical and contemporary contexts. Lectures …
Readings
- Chapter 1 from "Pulse of the People"University of Pennsylvania Press
- Chapter 12 from 'Black Popular Culture and Social Justice'Routledge
- Scaling Social Movements through Social Media: The case of Black Lives MatterSocial Media+Society
- Theatre of the OppressedPluto Press
- "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" from 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes'Penguin Random House Canada
- Blood Quantum and Fourth Cinema: Post- and Paracolonial ZombiesQuarterly Review of Film and Video
- "Peace and the Arts" by Patrick McCarthy, in Handbook of Peace and Conflict StudiesRoutledge
- Chapter 7 and Chapter 23 from "#Metoo and the Politics of Social Change"Springer
- PrisonersDirected by Dennis Villeneuve
- Blood Quantum
- Rear Window
- The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (Documentary)
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
- All Quiet on the Western FrontNetflix
- Chapter 12 from 'Black Popular Culture and Social Justice' Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: 2023
- "Peace and the Arts" by Patrick McCarthy, in Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies Authors: Patrick McCarthy Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: 2007
- Chapter 7 and Chapter 23 from "#Metoo and the Politics of Social Change" Authors: edited by Bianca Fileborn and Rachel Loney-Howes Publisher: Springer Publication Date: 2019
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Winter 2026