An Unauthorized Biography of the World
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An Unauthorized Biography of the World

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An Unauthorized Biography of the World

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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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Publisher
Between the Lines
Year
2004
ISBN
9781897071762
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1: Finding Voice, Making Sense
  7. 2: Kanien’keha/Ts’eouli (First Nations, Canada)
  8. 3: Land and Life (First Nations, Canada)
  9. 4: Umut/Hope (Turkey)
  10. 5: The Messenger (Chicago, Illinois)
  11. 6: The Gale Began to Rise (Newfoundland, Canada)
  12. 7: The Whole Truth (Peru)
  13. 8: Passion in the Archives (Canada)
  14. 9: 9/11/01 (New York)
  15. 10: 9/11/01 + 2 (New York)
  16. 11: History on the Floor (Labour, Canada)
  17. 12: Turning the Tables (On the Author)
  18. 13: A Really Tender One-Night Stand (gay, Canada)
  19. 14: Keep Asking Questions! (Cleveland, Ohio)
  20. 15: A Map of the Holy Land (Israel-Palestine)
  21. Oral History Resources List