Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims

by Kayhan Irani, Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415960800
• ISBN13: 9780415960809
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"