Telling Stories To Change The World: Global Voices On The Power Of Narrative To Build Community And Make Social Justice Claims

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. Collectively, These Projects Demonstrate The Contemporary Power Of Stories To Stimulate Engagement, Active Citizenship, The Pride Of Identity, And The Humility Of Human Connectedness.--jacket. Zuni River, Shiwinan K'yawinanne : Cultural Confluence / By Edward Wemytewa And Tia Oros Peters -- The Memory Book Project In Kampala, Uganda : We're Not Going To Die Today Or Tomorrow / By Magaret Ssweankambo ... [et Al.] ; Edited By Madeline Fox -- Telling The Truth : How Breaking Silence Brought Redemption To One Mississippi Town / By Susan M. Glisson -- Our Ancestors Danced Like This : Maya Youth Respond To Genocide Through Ancestral Arts / By Czarina Aggabao Thelen -- An Unlikely Alliance : Germans And Jews Collaborate To Teach The Lessons Of The Holocaust / By Deborah Roth-howe ... [et Al.] -- Storytelling In Sistersong And The Voices Of Feminism Project / By Loretta J. Ross -- Our Stories Told By Us : The Neighborhood Story Project In New Orleans / By Rachel Breunlin, Abram Himelstein, And Ashley Nelson -- A Story Of Suicide And Social Change In Contemporary China / By Sharon R. Wesoky -- Depo Diaries And The Power Of Stories / By Etobssie Wako And Cara Page --^ Immigrant Stories In The Hudson Valley / By Jo Salas -- Our Stories, Their Decisions Voter Education Project / By Natasha Friedus -- Drawing Attention To Darfur / By Annie Sparrow -- Insan Natak : Phoenix Or Dodo In Lahore / By Muhammad Mushtaq -- Everyone Needs To Know : Five Stories About Aids And Art In India / By Nandita Palchoudhuri ... [et Al.] -- The We That Sets Us Free : Imagining A World Without Prisons / By Alice Do Valle -- Hearing The Great Ancestors And Women Living Under Muslim Laws / By Aisha Lee Fox Shaheed -- Creating A Forum : Lgbtq Youth And The Home Project In Chicago / By Megan Carney -- From Storytelling To Community Development : Jaghori, Afghanistan / By Wahid Omar -- Sins Invalid : Disability, Dancing, And Claiming Beauty / By Patty Berne -- Anne Braden, Fannie Lou Hamer, And Rigoberta Menchu : Using Personal Narrative To Build Activist Movements / By Catherine Fosl --^ Trafficking Trauma : Intellectual Property Rights And The Political Economy Of Traumatic Storytelling In South Africa / By Christopher J. Colvin -- Imagining Cuba : Storytelling And The Politics Of Exile / By Myra Mendible -- Stories In Law / By Martha Minow. Edited By Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox, And Kayhan Irani. Includes Bibliographical References.