Curated stories : the uses and misuses of storytelling / Sujatha Fernandes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fernandes, Sujatha, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in culture & politics

Oxford studies in culture and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling in mass media.

Storytelling--Political aspects.

Storytelling.

Storytelling--Social aspects.

Narration (Rhetoric)--Political aspects.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Communication in politics.

Physical Description:

xii, 212 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. Heartbreaking accounts of poverty, mistreatment, and struggle may move us deeply. But what do they move us to do? 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. She argues 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 Cultural project in Venezuela. She shows how the conditions under which certain stories are told, the tropes through which they are narrated, and the ways in which they are responded to may actually disguise the deeper contexts of global inequality. Curated stories shift the focus away from structural problems and defuse the confrontational politics of social movements. Not just a critical examination of the contemporary use of narrative and its wider impact on our collective understanding of pressing social issues, Curated Stories also explores how story-telling might be reclaimed to allow for the complexity of experience to be expressed in pursuit of transformative social change. Book jacket.

Contents:

Curated storytelling

Charting the storytelling turn

Stories and statecraft: why counting on apathy might not be enough

Out of the home, into the house: how storytelling at the legislature can narrow movement goals

Sticking to the script: the battle over representations

Rumbas in the barrio: personal lives in a collectivist project.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Fernandes, Sujatha. Curated stories.

ISBN:

9780190618056

0190618051

9780190618049

0190618043

OCLC:

976035756