ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|60 pages
“The Language of the People Was Born”
chapter 2|8 pages
The Memory Book Project in Kampala, Uganda
chapter 4|16 pages
“Our Ancestors Danced Like this”
chapter 5|10 pages
An Unlikely Alliance
part II|86 pages
“This Needs Urgent Attention”
part III|54 pages
“Weaving Freedom into New Tongues”
part IV|51 pages
The Power and the Limits of Stories