An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines - Softcover

Riordon, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1896357938 ISBN 13: 9781896357935

Verlag: BETWEEN THE LINES, 2005

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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.

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MICHAEL RIORDON teaches writing, and has written three books of oral history: *Out our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country, **Eating Fire: Family Life on the Queer Side*, and *Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine*. He lives near Picton, Ontario.

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• Verlag: BETWEEN THE LINES
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1896357938
• ISBN 13: 9781896357935
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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