Sujatha Fernandes

Curated Stories (eBook, ePUB)

The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling

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Produktbeschreibung

Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. Heartbreaking accounts of poverty, mistreatment, and struggle may move us deeply. But what do they move us to do? And what are the stakes in the crafting and use of storytelling? In Curated Stories, Sujatha Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the broader shift to neoliberal, free-market economies. She argues that stories have been reconfigured to promote entrepreneurial self-making and restructured as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward utilitarian ends. Fernandes roams the globe and returns with stories from the Afghan Women's Writing Project, the domestic workers movement and the undocumented student Dreamer movement in the United States, and the Misi?n Cultura project in Venezuela. She shows how the conditions under which certain stories are told, the tropes through which they are narrated, and the ways in which they are responded to may actually disguise the deeper contexts of global inequality. Curated stories shift the focus away from structural problems and defuse the confrontational politics of social movements. Not just a critical examination of the contemporary use of narrative and its wider impact on our collective understanding of pressing social issues, Curated Stories also explores how storytelling might be reclaimed to allow for the complexity of experience to be expressed in pursuit of transformative social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190618070
• Artikelnr.: 48880458

Autorenporträt

Sujatha Fernandes is Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney. She was previously a Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. A former member of the Princeton Society of Fellows, she is the author of Cuba Represent!, Who Can Stop the Drums?, and Close to the Edge. She has written for The New York Times, The Nation, and Dissent, among other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Chapter 1: Curated Storytelling
* Chapter 2: Charting the Storytelling Turn
* Chapter 3: Stories and Statecraft: Why Counting on Apathy Might Not
Be Enough
* Chapter 4: Out of the Home, Into the House: How Storytelling at the
Legislature Can Narrow Movement Goals
* Chapter 5: Sticking to the Script: The Battle Over Representations
* Chapter 6: Rumbas in the Barrio: Personal Lives in a Collectivist
Project
* Epilogue: New Movements, New Stories?
* Bibliography
* Index