Resources
ASO Communications: Applying tools from cognition and linguistics, we uncover where people are capable of going and how to use our words, images and stories to move them.
The Center for Story-Based Strategy: Center for Story-based Strategy cultivates imagination spaces where story, grassroots leadership, organizing, and democracy are interwoven strategies to build power.
Convergence Magazine: Article Collection on Narrative Strategy.
George Lakoff: Framing for Activists.
Narrative Initiative: We collaborate with social movements to transform deeply held beliefs and values to make equity and justice the foundations of multiracial democracy.
Race-Class Academy: A 12-video introduction to how together we can beat dog whistle politics by building cross-racial and cross-class solidarity.
Reframing America: Reframing America is about questioning the assumptions in our public debate that restrict our thinking, and proposing new and better ways of talking about what’s happening in our country and in our lives.
Nayantara Sen: How the Light Gets In: Narrative Power Building through the Arts.
Words to Win by Podcast: Takes listeners on a journey around the globe with renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor Anat Shenker-Osorio as she unpacks real-world narrative shifts that led to real-world victories.
Books
Lee Anne Bell: Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching.
Doyle Canning & Patrick Reinsborough: Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World.
Micharl Jackson: The Politics of Storytelling: Variations on a Theme by Hannah Arendt.
Claire Keifer & Cliff Mayotte (editors): Say it Forward: A Guide to Social Justice Storytelling.
Sonali Kolhatkar: Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice.
Ian Haney López: Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America.
Nesrine Malik: We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom.
Annalee Newitz: Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind.
Francesca Polletta: It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics.
Rebecca Solnit: Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters.
Books About Storytelling & Human Nature
Brian Boyd: On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction.
Jonathan Gottschall:
- The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human.
- The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down.
Will Storr: The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better.