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Liberation Stories : Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthews, Shanelle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social movements.
- Communication in social action.
- Communication in politics.
- Strategic planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (461 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, The, 2025.
- Summary:
- From an international cast of leading activist communicators, a timely and instructive handbook for telling stories that change the world The twenty-first century has seen a profound shift in the global sociopolitical and economic landscape, shaped by seismic interventions ranging from the War on Terror to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Weaponizing Rhetoric: Legitimations of State Violence in the War on Terror
- Echoes of the Nakba: The Battle for Narrative Power in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle
- Reframing Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Movement Convergence in the Wake of the 2020 Uprisings
- More Than a Check: Building Narrative Power for Black Reparations
- Liberation Is Coming: The Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty
- Narratives of Resilience and Resistance: The Evolution of me too. and Survivor Justice
- Root Causes and Radical Change: Reimagining Gun Violence Prevention in America
- The Best Defense Is a Good Offense
- Beyond Borders: Building Power and Counter narratives in the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Community
- Asserting Humanity: Lessons from the Drop the I-Word Campaign
- Relief for All of Us or Relief for None of Us
- "They Don't Care About Us, But We Care"
- From "Safe, Legal, and Rare" to "Everyone Loves Someone Who Had an Abortion": How We Shifted the Abortion Conversation
- Building People Power: How to Shift the Health Care Narrative in the United States
- Building a Fat-Positive Future: Strategies for Advocacy and Change
- The Power to Win: Occupy Wall Street, the Fight for 15, and Multidimensional Power
- Reframing the Retail Apocalypse: Narrative Strategies for the Future of Worker Organizing
- The Past, Present, and Future Narratives of Philanthropy
- Refusing the Status Quo: How Narrative Power Can Shape Policy Change
- Understanding and Combating OnlineRacialized Disinformation in the 21st Century
- Data for Liberation: The Role of Surveys in Social Movement Infrastructure
- Storytelling and the Power of Visual Media
- Cultural Engineering: The Use of Design and Creative Strategy in Revolutionary Movements
- Disrupting the Status Quo: Direct Action as a Narrative Force in Uprisings.
- The Messenger Matters: Influencer Partnerships as a Tool for Narrative Change
- The Narrative Influence of #EndSARS: How Young Nigerians' Advocacy Against Police Brutality Went from Twitter to the Streets
- Black Bixas Blooming Self-Love and Affection
- Countering Fascism: Narrative Power, Social Movements, and the Fight for Justice in the UK and Poland
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- About the Authors
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-62097-942-X
- OCLC:
- 1520916444
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