Researching Protest Literacies: Literacy as Protest in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

ISBN-13: 9780367374013 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 252 str.

Jamie D. I. Duncan

Opis

By focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents, social movements, and media producers to policy changes implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, this book studies the development of literacy as a tool to mobilize, perform, and disseminate protest.

O autorze

Jamie D. I. Duncan completed his PhD at Lancaster Literacy Research Center, Lancaster University, UK. His academic research is situated within the ethnographic and historical traditions of the New Literacy Studies and his professional background includes work in the UK and Brazil across the fields of social housing, adult education, and applied linguistics.