How can hope flourish from the devastation of war, oppression, and forced migration?
For the people featured in this book, this is not a philosophical question – it is a lived reality. Drawn from first-hand experience of violent conflict and displacement, the stories in this book belong to three extraordinary individuals who found a path to hope through action in the face of violence.
Ideal reading for academics, artists, and activists who are working around issues of social justice, Creative Resistance highlights the extraordinary actions of ordinary people in dark times.
Table des matières
1: The role of storytelling and narrative in transformation
2: Monirah Hashemi: Who lights the stars?
3: Halleh Ghorashi: From revolutionary to engaged academic
4: Diala Brisly: ’The braver you are, the more you will see’
5: Can stories inspire response-ability?
A propos de l’auteur
Professor Laura Hammond Ph D is Pro-Director (Pro-Vice Chancellor) of Research and Knowledge Exchange at SOAS University of London and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She has conducted research on food security, conflict, migration and diasporas in and from the Horn of Africa since the early 1990s. She is Head of the London International Development Centre-Migration Leadership Team, Team Leader of the EU Trust Fund’s Research and Evidence Facility on migration and conflict in the Horn of Africa, and Co-Director of the SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies. She is the author of This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia.