Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/storselfsoci.15.2.0191
Antoinette E. Denapoli
Abstract:This article argues that an Indian, female religious leader (guru) (henceforth, “Guru Ma”) transforms received understandings of dharma, which has often been translated in western scholarly discourse as “religion,” through the everyday, devotional practice of storytelling. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted with Guru Ma between 2013 and 2015 in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, and through a discourse-centered analysis of her narratives, the article contends that Guru Ma uses storytelling as a modality to construct the idea of the “modern” with respect to a religiously pluralistic “dharmic” sensibility of empathy, flexibility, adaptability, cooperation, and beneficence. By emphasizing that the modern comprises cultivating a dharmic mindset, rather than imitating a westernized lifestyle based on the mindless consumption of goods, Guru Ma's telling of stories disrupts mainstream cultural perceptions of dharma as opposed and even contradictory to the modern. Her narrative performances foreground what the author terms “the modernity of dharma” for people in whose understandings modern identity associates with westernized consumer capitalist values, and not with the dharmic mindset emphasized in Guru Ma's stories.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/storselfsoci.16.1.0080
Kaitlin Debicki
Abstract:Rotinonhsonni thoughtways understand trees to be part of an interconnected network of land-based knowledge that spans from time immemorial to the present. As extensions of First Woman, trees are literally my relations, my ancestors. While onkwehonwe (original peoples) have long been able to tap into the knowledge of the land (and many still do), colonialism has significantly disrupted our landed and place-based relationships and consequently our ability to read the land. This article explores, through juxtapositions of Rotinonhsonni oral histories, contemporary Indigenous literature, and a series of trees, the possibility of (re)learning to read and communicate with the land. Renewing relations and modes of relationality to the land in this way has the potential to strengthen Indigenous efforts for self-determination, knowledge resurgence, land reclamation, and nation-to-nation alliances.Each human is a complex, contradictory story. Some stories within us have been unfolding for years, others are trembling with fresh life as they peek above the horizon. Each is a zigzag of emotional design and ancestral architecture. All the stories in the earth's mind are connected.—Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/storselfsoci.15.2.0246
Henricsson, Claesson
Abstract:This article takes its point of departure in Bangalore, India, where through a cultural exchange program, we worked together with storytellers from a storytelling organization. During the project, we also met many active teachers; those encounters made us want to find out more about how Indian teachers describe their experience of telling stories in school contexts. The aim of this study is to deepen the knowledge about Indian teachers' experiences of telling stories in teaching. We found that the teachers' storytelling is closely connected to the content being taught and that their storytelling unfolds in and from the context. In addition, it appears to us that the teachers tell stories to provide an answer to a pedagogical question about how to make teaching more relational, emotional, and ethical.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/storselfsoci.16.1.0108
C. Neile
{"title":"“Bio-storying”: Reflections on Form and Function in Peninnah's World","authors":"C. Neile","doi":"10.13110/storselfsoci.16.1.0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/storselfsoci.16.1.0108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"16 1","pages":"108 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43273570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/storselfsoci.15.2.0270
C. Zalka
{"title":"On Original Bavarian Folktales by Franz Xaver von Schöwerth, translated by M. Charlotte Wolf; and The Turnip Princess, and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales, by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, translated by Erika Eichenseer","authors":"C. Zalka","doi":"10.13110/storselfsoci.15.2.0270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/storselfsoci.15.2.0270","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"15 1","pages":"270 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48069948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/storselfsoci.16.1.0143
Kaitlin E. Cannava
{"title":"On A Multimodal Perspective on Applied Storytelling Performance: Narrativity in Context","authors":"Kaitlin E. Cannava","doi":"10.13110/storselfsoci.16.1.0143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/storselfsoci.16.1.0143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"16 1","pages":"143 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45812173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.16.2.0200
Adam Brown, Emily Wade
Abstract:The social media landscape has fundamentally reshaped the conventional notion of “authenticity,” raising pressing questions regarding how educators might construct credible and compelling personas to facilitate student learning online. Such questions are now more important than ever in an environment where the global COVID-19 pandemic has enticed countless more educators to explore the potentialities of the digital world for engaging students. This article takes a collaborative autoethnographic approach to examining the use of live Periscope video broadcasts in higher education. Adopting the “Media Studies 2.0” model and positioning themselves as “meddlers in the middle,” the authors unpack the complex and fluid nature of “authentic” teacher performances in relation to serendipity, vulnerability, and imperfection.
{"title":"Serendipity, Vulnerability, and Imperfection: Harnessing Live Video for “Authentic” Teacher Performances","authors":"Adam Brown, Emily Wade","doi":"10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.16.2.0200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.16.2.0200","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The social media landscape has fundamentally reshaped the conventional notion of “authenticity,” raising pressing questions regarding how educators might construct credible and compelling personas to facilitate student learning online. Such questions are now more important than ever in an environment where the global COVID-19 pandemic has enticed countless more educators to explore the potentialities of the digital world for engaging students. This article takes a collaborative autoethnographic approach to examining the use of live Periscope video broadcasts in higher education. Adopting the “Media Studies 2.0” model and positioning themselves as “meddlers in the middle,” the authors unpack the complex and fluid nature of “authentic” teacher performances in relation to serendipity, vulnerability, and imperfection.","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"16 1","pages":"200 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47065368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.16.2.0153
Amanda Hill
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue: Looking to the Digital: An Introduction to Digital Storytelling","authors":"Amanda Hill","doi":"10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.16.2.0153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.16.2.0153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"16 1","pages":"153 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41805459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.15.1.0071
Roanne Thomas, Christine Novy, W. Gifford, V. Grandpierre, Jennifer Poudrier, Ovini Thomas
Abstract:Known gaps in health and social care, largely stemming from colonization, result in poorer outcomes for Indigenous peoples with cancer as compared to non-Indigenous peoples. Also, few researchers have focused on the strengths of Indigenous peoples in dealing with such challenges. Of note is a lack of research exploring Indigenous knowledge in this context and the ways in which such knowledge may be conveyed through stories and visual arts. With a view to exploring Indigenous cancer experiences, we completed a qualitative project with five communities in Canada. Data were collected via sharing sessions, photography and journaling, and individual interviews; all of these methods resulted in stories that were selected and shared by the participants themselves in their own words. The intersections of storytelling and visual arts were interpreted, resulting in three themes:(1) Singing, painting, and drawing stories connects to tradition;(2) Crafting stories connects the traditional and contemporary; and(3) Sharing stories connects participants to others.The results of this study have implications for culturally safe health care for Indigenous peoples with cancer, but also for the exploration of storytelling and the visual arts in health care more broadly.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.13110/storselfsoci.16.1.0033
Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon
Abstract:From Safe to Brave is a performance piece developed from the stories of fifty-seven voices from the Temple University community, including students, faculty, administrators, and nearby residents. The project involved six Interactive Community Conversations. The project drew on numerous arts-based methodologies, including poetic ethnography and body-map storytelling in order to interrogate the dynamics of power, privilege, racism, prejudice, institutional racism, violence, and activism as portrayed in a representation of people's lived experience.
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