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Politics of Storytelling
Michael Jackson
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Description for Politics of Storytelling
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Hannah Arendt famously argued that politics are best understood as a power relationship between private and public realms. And storytelling, she argued, creates a vital bridge between these realms, a place where individual passions and shared perspectives can be contested and interwoven. In The Politics of Storytelling , anthropologist Michael Jackson explores and expands on Arendt's notions, bringing stories from all around the world into impressive cross-cultural analysis. Jackson retells stories from the Kuranko in Sierre Leone, the Australian Aboriginals, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- by refugees, renegades, and war veterans. Focusing on the violent and volatile conditions under which stories are told -- or silenced -- he explores the power of narrative to remake reality, enabling people to symbolically alter their relations and help reclaim an existential viability. Above all, he shows how Arendt's writings on narrative deepen our understanding of the critical, therapeutic, and politic role of storytelling, that it is one of the crucial ways by which we understand one another.
Product Details
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
322
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Copenhagen, Denmark
ISBN
9788763540360
SKU
V9788763540360
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About Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School.
Reviews for Politics of Storytelling
Michael Jackson's The Politics of Storytelling is a radical book for our time. I have never read a more compelling vision of how human beings creatively negotiate the borderlands between their private and public worlds. Not since Clifford Geertz has an anthropologist written with such innovative narrative skill, reaching beyond the academy to illuminate what is culturally at stake in our need to tell stories about the shared worlds we inhabit and remake.
David Carrasco, author of City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Vi Michael Jackson s The Politics of Storytelling is a radical book for our time. I have never read a more compelling vision of how human beings creatively negotiate the borderlands between their private and public worlds. Not since Clifford Geertz has an anthropologist written with such innovative narrative skill, reaching beyond the academy to illuminate what is culturally at stake in our need to tell stories about the shared worlds we inhabit and remake.
David Carrasco, author of City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Vi Michael Jackson's The Politics of Storytelling is a radical book for our time. I have never read a more compelling vision of how human beings creatively negotiate the borderlands between their private and public worlds. Not since Clifford Geertz has an anthropologist written with such innovative narrative skill, reaching beyond the academy to illuminate what is culturally at stake in our need to tell stories about the shared worlds we inhabit and remake.
David Carrasco, author of City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Vi
David Carrasco, author of City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Vi Michael Jackson s The Politics of Storytelling is a radical book for our time. I have never read a more compelling vision of how human beings creatively negotiate the borderlands between their private and public worlds. Not since Clifford Geertz has an anthropologist written with such innovative narrative skill, reaching beyond the academy to illuminate what is culturally at stake in our need to tell stories about the shared worlds we inhabit and remake.
David Carrasco, author of City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Vi Michael Jackson's The Politics of Storytelling is a radical book for our time. I have never read a more compelling vision of how human beings creatively negotiate the borderlands between their private and public worlds. Not since Clifford Geertz has an anthropologist written with such innovative narrative skill, reaching beyond the academy to illuminate what is culturally at stake in our need to tell stories about the shared worlds we inhabit and remake.
David Carrasco, author of City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Vi