An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the official versions.
Michael Riordon has thirty years' experience as a writer and broadcaster in the field. Readers will encounter a gallery of brave, passionate people who gather silenced voices and lost life stories. The canvas is broad, the stakes are high: the battles for First Nations lands in Canada; environmental justice in Chicago; genocide in Peru; homeless people organizing in Cleveland; September 11/01, and after, in New York City; gay survivors of electroshock in Britain; the struggle to preserve a people's identity in Newfoundland; peasant resistance to a huge transnational gold mine in Turkey.
Michael Riordon has thirty years' experience as a writer and broadcaster in the field. Readers will encounter a gallery of brave, passionate people who gather silenced voices and lost life stories. The canvas is broad, the stakes are high: the battles for First Nations lands in Canada; environmental justice in Chicago; genocide in Peru; homeless people organizing in Cleveland; September 11/01, and after, in New York City; gay survivors of electroshock in Britain; the struggle to preserve a people's identity in Newfoundland; peasant resistance to a huge transnational gold mine in Turkey.
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- CaOOCEL
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- 361.1
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781459306417 1896357938
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- HN17.5
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- R56 2004eb
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- 1 electronic text (viii, 322 p.)
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- 1 FINDING VOICE, MAKING SENSE 10
- 2 KANIEN'KEHA/TS'EOULI (First Nations, Canada) 18
- 3 LAND AND LIFE (First Nations, Canada) 41
- 4 UMUT/HOPE (Turkey) 55
- 5 THE MESSENGER (Chicago, Illinois) 76
- 6 THE GALE BEGAN TO RISE (Newfoundland, Canada) 92
- 7 THE WHOLE TRUTH (Peru) 119
- 8 PASSION IN THE ARCHIVES (Canada) 145
- 9 9/11/01 (New York) 159
- 10 9/11/01 + 2 (New York) 179
- 11 HISTORY ON THE FLOOR (labour, Canada) 205
- 12 TURNING THE TABLES (on the author) 235
- 13 A REALLY TENDER ONE-NIGHT STAND (gay, Canada) 249
- 14 KEEP ASKING QUESTIONS! (Cleveland, Ohio) 276
- 15 A MAP OF THE HOLY LAND (Israel-Palestine) 303
- Oral History Resources List 332
