Telling Stories to Change the World (eBook, ePUB)

Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims
Redaktion: Solinger, Rickie; Irani, Kayhan; Fox, Madeline

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a powerful collection of essays about community-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Collectively these narratives demonstrate the contemporary power of stories to stimulate engagement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135901264
• Artikelnr.: 38252583

Autorenporträt

Rickie Solinger is a historian and curator, author of books including Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America and Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade. Madeline Fox is an educator and researcher currently pursuing her PhD in Social Personality Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Kayhan Irani is a community arts practitioner who in 2007 was awarded a certificate of recognition by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg for her arts work in immigrant communities.

Inhaltsangabe

I "The Language of the People Was Born:" Stories in the Service of Healing
Tradition
Cultural Vitality
History 1. Zuni River - Shiwinan K'yawinanne: Cultural Confluence
Edward Wemytewa and Tia Oros Peters 2. The Memory Book Project in Kampala
Uganda: "We're Not Going to Die Today or Tomorrow
" Magaret Ssweankambo
Naome Kuteesa
Margaret Nabuma
and Joyce Kasujja ; edited by Madeline Fox 3. Telling the Truth: How Breaking Silence Brought Redemption to One Mississippi Town
Susan M. Glisson 4. Our Ancestors Danced Like This: Maya Youth Respond to Genocide Using Ancestral Arts
Czarina Aggabao Thelen 5. An Unlikely Alliance: Germans and Jews Collaborate to Teach the Lessons of the Holocaust
Deborah Roth-Howe
Herbert L. Roth
Gabrielle Schmitt
Dr. Annegret Wenz-Haubfleisch
and Rabbi Robert Sternberg 6. Storytelling in SisterSong and the Voices of Feminism Project
Loretta J. Ross II "This Needs Urgent Attention:" Stories in the Service of Protecting
Defending
Building Audience and Allies 7. "Our Stories Told By Us": The Neighborhood Story Project in New Orleans
Rachel Breunlin
Abram Himelstein
and Ashley Nelson 8. A Story of Suicide and Social Change in Contemporary China
Sharon R. Wesoky 9. Depo Diaries and the Power of Stories
Etobssie Wako and Cara Page 10. Immigrant Stories in the Hudson Valley
Jo Salas 11. Our Stories
Their Decisions Voter Education Project
Natasha Friedus 12. Drawing Attention to Darfur
Annie Sparrow 13. INSAN NATAK: Phoenix or Dodo in Lahore
Muhammad Mushtaq 14. Everyone Needs to Know: Five Stories About AIDS and Art in India
Nandita Palchoudhuri
David Gere
Monimala Chitrakar
Samiran Panda
and Mithu Jana III "Weaving Freedom into New Tongues:" Stories in the Service of Challenging and Transforming Beliefs 15. The We That Sets Us Free: Imagining a World Without Prisons
Alice do Valle 16. Hearing the Great Ancestors and "Women Living Under Muslim Laws"
Aisha Lee Fox Shaheed 17. Creating a Forum: LGBTQ Youth and THE HOME PROJECT in Chicago
Megan Carney 18. From Storytelling to Community Development: Jaghori
Afghanistan
Wahid Omar 19. Sins Invalid: Disability
Dancing
and Claiming Beauty
Patty Berne IV The Power and the Limits of Stories 20. Anne Braden
Fannie Lou Hamer
and Rigoberta Menchu: Using Personal Narrative to Build Activist Movements
Catherine Fosl 21. Trafficking Trauma: Intellectual Property Rights and the Political Economy of Traumatic Storytelling in South Africa
Christopher J. Colvin 22. Imagining Cuba: Storytelling and the Politics of Exile
Myra Mendible 23. Stories in Law
Martha Minow