“Cultural Acupuncture”: Fan Activism and the Harry Potter Alliance

Abstract

Written two decades apart, these statements by Fiske and Slack illustrate shifts in how fan activity connects the popular imagination and real-world politics. Both claim that fandom’s “sense of solidarity… [and] shared resistance” empowers individuals to make decisive steps towards collective action. Fiske sees fandom as an informal set of everyday practices and personal identities, while Slack describes organisations with institutional ties to NGOs. In Fiske’s view, participants’ fantasies shape how they see themselves and the world, while Slack describes a conscious rhetorical strategy mapping fictional content worlds onto These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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