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Telling Stories to Change The World

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Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Contributors from locations across the globe―including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa, New Orleans, and Chicago―describe grassroots projects in which communities use narrative as a way of exploring what a more just society might look like and what civic engagement means. These compelling accounts of resistance, hope, and vision showcase the power of the storytelling form to generate critique and collective action. Together, these projects demonstrate the contemporary power of stories to stimulate engagement, active citizenship, the pride of identity, and the humility of human connectedness.

280 pages, Paperback

First published May 19, 2007

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April 26, 2015
Зачастую первый шаг в общественном проекте -- обратиться к людям; и чаще всего в этом обращении важна человеческая перспектива. Не информация в духе бизнес-плана "сейчас всё так-и-так, а через 3 года я хочу того-то и того-то", а объяснение, почему вообще стоит заботиться о вашем деле.

В этом сборнике участники различных общественных проектов говорят о том, какой вклад рассказывание историй внесло в осуществление их начинаний. Книга не является руководством по использованию историй в общественной жизни, зато может показать сомневающемуся, что истории могут приносить пользу в самых разных контекстах.
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July 23, 2009
Some great (some less engaging, depending on your interest) stories by people and communities whose cultures have been interrupted or subordinated--people with dissabilities, transgender youth, people with AIDS in Uganda, Maya Indians--and how they transmit their oppression, courage and culture.
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June 15, 2010
This book is giving me good background for the Social Action Story Swap I'm running in Park Slope.
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