recession stories trailer

A project by Muni Citrin, Michaela Walsh, Andy Rice, Andrew Whitworth-Smith, and Chuck Miller

This project is an effort to make an intervention into the dominant narratives that have become the default articulations of the causes and consequences of, as well as the tenable solutions to, the current economic malaise and its associated social consequences. These pervasive narratives left unchallenged create constraints on both discussion and action that threaten to prematurely foreclose on creative and even radical solutions.

This intervention focuses on the analyses and experiences of people in the epicenter of the crisis, Southern California. With a manic housing market, looming ecological disaster, dramatic spectrum of ideological convictions, and a legacy for setting precedents for political and cultural trends that then move east, Southern California serves as fertile terrain for assessing the broad range of social expressions that constitute the practices and ideological commitments developing from the economic crisis

Category:

Education

Tags:

• recession
• southern california
• foreclosure
• eviction
• tea party
• tax day
• alternative narratives