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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781009703321

Autore

Zingaro Linde

Titolo

Speaking out : storytelling for social change / / Linde Zingaro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-41993-9

1-315-41992-0

1-59874-739-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series

Disciplina

808.5/43

808.543

Soggetti

Storytelling

Social change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2009 by Left Coast Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Disclosure Consequences; CHAPTER 2 Ideology, Terminology, and Method; CHAPTER 3 Conversations in Which Silence Is Not Consent; CHAPTER 4 Vignettes: Professional Confessions; CHAPTER 5 Voicing and Silence: Speaking for Others by Speaking about Ourselves; CHAPTER 6 Preparation for Speaking Out: Polishing the Story; CHAPTER 7 Pedagogical Confessions: Narrating Empowerment for Knowledge Production; CHAPTER 8 Testimony: Performing the Polished Story; CHAPTER 9 Conclusions/Closing: The Portrait of a Practice; Notes; References; Index

About The Author

Sommario/riassunto

Many professionals in health, education, and community service roles are caught in a particular bind of identity-they live in a complex social borderland of credibility and professional authority while experiencing or having experienced the same discrimination, violence or trauma that they are committed to conquering. For some, the disclosure of their own stories of marginalization has become a tool for advocacy, for telling a larger truth; for others, self-disclosure is a more personal action, intended to assist isolated others in developing trust and connection. Linde Zingaro, a lifelon