Telling Stories to Change the World

<p><em>Telling Stories to Change the World</em> 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.</p>