By Rickie Solinger,Madeline Fox,Kayhan Irani
Telling tales to alter the World is a robust choice of essays approximately community-based and interest-based tasks the place storytelling is used as a technique for talking out for justice. participants from destinations around the globe—including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa, New Orleans, and Chicago—describe grassroots initiatives during which groups use narrative as a fashion of exploring what a extra simply society could appear like and what civic engagement ability. those compelling bills of resistance, wish, and imaginative and prescient show off the facility of the storytelling shape to generate critique and collective motion. jointly, those initiatives show the modern energy of news to stimulate engagement, energetic citizenship, the delight of identification, and the humility of human connectedness.
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