Writing Banal Inequalities: How to Fabricate Stories That Disrupt

TY - BOOK

T1 - Writing Banal Inequalities: How to Fabricate Stories That Disrupt

AU - Cowan, Hannah

AU - Del Percio, Alfonso

PY - 2023/12

Y1 - 2023/12

N2 - In this Element, the authors write about the everyday production and experiences of banal inequality. Through a series of sections, each comprising of a blogpost written for Disruptive Inequalities, and a commentary from the author on the predicaments they encountered in the writing process, this Element shares, and confronts, the ways we fabricate stories and use writing to resist. It makes visible the choices, practices, and reflections that have led to the writing of our stories and offers the tools we have used to fabricate them, to all those who may find them meaningful to appropriate, adapt, and translate to fight the struggles that they want to fight. These tools are formulated in a way for writers to develop their own methods of storytelling and activism. The authors hope this Element contributes to an ongoing debate on how writing serves banal resistance.

AB - In this Element, the authors write about the everyday production and experiences of banal inequality. Through a series of sections, each comprising of a blogpost written for Disruptive Inequalities, and a commentary from the author on the predicaments they encountered in the writing process, this Element shares, and confronts, the ways we fabricate stories and use writing to resist. It makes visible the choices, practices, and reflections that have led to the writing of our stories and offers the tools we have used to fabricate them, to all those who may find them meaningful to appropriate, adapt, and translate to fight the struggles that they want to fight. These tools are formulated in a way for writers to develop their own methods of storytelling and activism. The authors hope this Element contributes to an ongoing debate on how writing serves banal resistance.

U2 - 10.1017/9781009104449

DO - 10.1017/9781009104449

M3 - Book

SN - 9781009104449

T3 - Elements in Applied Linguistics

BT - Writing Banal Inequalities: How to Fabricate Stories That Disrupt

PB - Cambridge University Press (CUP)

ER -