The Politics of Storytelling

Variations on a Theme by Hannah Arendt

By:

Michael Jackson

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Series:

Critical Anthropology

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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 Arendts 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 Arendts 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.

Author Biography:

Michael Jackson is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School.

Release date Australia

September 1st, 2013

Author

Michael Jackson

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Edition

Second Edition

Pages

312

Series

Critical Anthropology

Dimensions

16x22x2

ISBN-13

9788763540360

Product ID

20969109

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