Storying Social Movement/s: Remaking Meaning in the Mobilization of Identity

This book stories social movements on the margins. Foregrounding historically silenced, dismissed and ignored Aboriginal, young, voiceless, and intersex Australian activists, the book theorizes how movement away from exclusionary praxis at the margins can offer renewed hope. Using diverse and creative forms of research underpinned by storying, social movement and critical race theoretical knowledge with a commitment to social justice, this book will be of interest and value to scholars of cultural studies, Indigenous studies, education, human geography, political sciences, and sociology. Louise Gwenneth Phillips is an Associate Professor in Education at Southern Cross University, Australia. Tracey Bunda is Academic Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland, Australia Foreword Standing Foreword Preface References Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures Chapter 1: Storying: The Vitality of Social Movements Who We Are in Story and Social Movements Storying and Social Movements Movement as Activism Movement as the Stories Bodies Tell Storied Learning Through Social Movements Overview of Chapters References Chapter 2: Learning with Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta Activism Locating Self in Social Movement Irati Wanti—Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta Learning by Example Activism and Embodied Pedagogy: Theory, Protocol, and Priority Raising Public Awareness and Focusing Attention by Speaking Out Strong Articulating the Counter-narrative: Inma Activism, Embodiment, and Healing Enactment, ‘Situatedness’, and ‘Really Useful Knowledge’ Activism, Embodiment, and Inter-Generational Practice: The Royal Commission, 2015 ‘Deliberative Democracy’ and the Power of ‘Story’ in Public Discourse Story and Deliberative Democracy Meet: Citizens’ Jury—A ‘Speed Dialogue’? Making It Real Outcome of the Citizens’ Jury Report: When Democracy Isn’t Really Democracy Privileging Aboriginal Voices: The Final Words Conclusion Tracey Responds References Chapter 3: How Breaking the Rules Is Changing the World Locating Self in Social Movements Becoming an Activist in the Climate Movement Becoming an Organizer Intersection of Learning, Opportunities and Challenges Between School and Activist Lives Working with the Media Family Support Activism During a Pandemic Legal Action Negative Responses Balancing Schooling, Family and Activism Demands Louise Responds References Chapter 4: Kooriography: Revolutionary Acts of Dance Locating Self in Social Movement Cultures’ Funeral Ceremony Crafting the Tools of the Storyteller Culture of the Individual Reality: Same, Same But Different Reflection—(Personal) Tracey Responds References Chapter 5: Brotherhood of the Wordless: Voiceless Wonders Locating in Story and Movement Louise Responds References Chapter 6: Always Pull Your People Up with You: The Liworaji Aboriginal Corporation Locating Ourselves Generational Activism Doing Something—Being Responsible Starting our Own Organisation Mission Legacies Without Fear-Safe Spaces The Code of Sisterhood Proper Protocols Making it Better for the Next Generation Tracey Responds Chapter 7: Developing an Individuated Sensibility at the Margins Acknowledgement of Country Prologue The Personal Worldview The Professional/Academic Worldview From the World in Between From the World in Between—Inward From the World in Between—Outward From the World in Between—Forward Louise Responds References Index