Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (622 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190618051 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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A former member of the Princeton Society of Fellows, she is the author of Cuba Represent!, Who Can Stop the Drums?, and Close to the Edge. She has written for The New York Times, The Nation, and Dissent, among other publications.. About the AuthorSujatha Fernandes is Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney. She was previously a Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York
Not just a critical examination of contemporary use of narrative and its wider impact on our collective understanding of pressing social issues, Curated Stories also explores how storytelling might be reclaimed to allow for the complexity of experience to be expressed in pursuit of transformative social change.. These narratives are typically heartbreaking accounts of poverty, mistreatment, and struggle that often move us deeply. Curated stories shift the focus away from structural problems and defuse the confrontational politics of social movements. Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. But what do they move us to? And what are the stakes in the crafting and use of storytelling?In Curated Stories, Sujatha Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the broader shift to neoliberal, free-market economies to argue that stories have been reconfigured to promote entrepreneurial self-making and restructured as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward utilitarian ends. Fernandes roams the globe and returns with stories from the Afghan Women's Writing Project, the domestic workers movement and the undocumented student Dreamer movement in the United States, and the Misión Cultura project in Venezuela to show how the conditions under which the stories are told, the tropes through w
Sujatha Fernandes is Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney. A former member of the Princeton Society of Fellows, she is the author of Cuba Represent!, Who Can Stop the Drums?, and Close to the Edge. She was previously a Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. She has written for The New York Times, The Nation, and Dissent, among other publications.