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The Story-Takers charts new territory in public pedagogy through an exploration of the multiple forms of communal protests against the mafia in Sicily. Writing at the rich juncture of cultural, feminist, and psychoanalytic theories, Paula M. Salvio draws on visual and textual representations including shrines to those murdered by the mafia, photographs, and literary and cinematic narratives, to explore how trauma and mourning inspire solidarity and a quest for justice among educators, activists, artists, and journalists living and working in Italy.
Salvio reveals how the anti-mafia movement is being brought out from behind the curtains, with educators leading the charge. She critically analyses six cases of communal acts of anti-mafia solidarity and argues that transitional justice requires radical approaches to pedagogy that are best informed by journalists, educators, and activists working to remember, not only victims of trauma, but those who resist trauma and violence.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Story-Taking, Public Pedagogy and the Challenges of Transitional Justice
Chapter 1:‘To Tarry With Grief’: Spontaneous Shrines, Public Pedagogy and the Work of Mourning
Chapter 2: ‘Eccentric Subjects’: Female Martyrs and the Antimafia Public Imaginary
Chapter 3: ‘Children of the Massacre’: Public Pedagogy and Italy’s Non-Violent Protest Against Mafia Extortion
Chapter 4: On the Road to a New Corleone: Digital Screen Cultures and Citizen Writers
Chapter 5: Reconstructing memory through the archives: public pedagogy, citizenship and Letizia Battaglia’s photographic record of mäa violence
Chapter 6: ‘The Duty to Report’: Political Judgment, Public Pedagogy and the Photographic Archive of Franco Zecchin
EPILOGUE
WORKS CITED
NOTES
INDEX
About the author
Paula M. Salvio is a professor in the Department of Education at the University of New Hampshire.
Summary
The Story-Takers charts new territory in public pedagogy through an exploration of the multiple forms of communal protests against the mafia in Sicily.
