Storied Social Change
Recovering Jane Addams's Early Model of Constituent Storytelling to Navigate the Practical Challenges of Speaking for Others
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12147182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Kiefer Fenton (Marquette University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 391-409 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/hyp.2021.19 |
| OpenAlex | W3157352611 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
This essay recovers Jane Addams's (1860–1935) practice of constituent storytelling as a resource for contemporary social-change-nonprofit professional practice and activism. Whereas feminist theorizing is rich with resources for theorizing about constituent storytelling, Addams, as both a publicly engaged philosopher and a social-change-nonprofit professional, is uniquely situated to provide practical ways forward for social-change practitioners navigating the lived complexities of speaking for others in light of spatial stratification, subordinating structures, and epistemic exclusion. As a hybrid activist-scholar situated across diverse spaces, Addams serves as a bridge between feminist theorizing about speaking for others, and practices of it among social-change-nonprofit professionals and activists. I show that Addams reveals new ways of thinking about the practice of constituent storytelling for social-change-nonprofit professionals. Namely, in this lived context, speaking for others entails speaking for them through one's own story . Responsible constituent storytelling names oneself as a speaker, owns one's own social standpoint in this rhetorical naming practice, and orients the story through one's own journey—a journey inevitably riddled with failures and faulty assumptions—toward democratic neighborship with the Other across difference
Art · Context (archaeology · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Rhetorical question · Situated · Social change · Sociology · Storytelling · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · History · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918
Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing
Evaluation of intergroup dialogue
The Impact of Stereotypical Versus Counterstereotypical Media Exemplars on Racial Attitudes, Causal Attributions, and Support for Affirmative Action
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Inclusion and Democracy
Democracy and Social Ethics
This Story Is Not for Everyone
Inclusion and Democracy
The Epistemology of Resistance
Justice and the Politics of Difference
With Us Always
Jane Addams
Typecasts, Tokens, and Spokespersons
Narrative as a Resource for Feminist Practices of Socially Engaged Inquiry
Pragmatists Jane Addams and John Dewey Inform the Ethic of Care
Insubordinate Spaces
The hidden price tag
Socializing Democracy
With Us Always
Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing
Jane Addams's Social Thought as a Model for a Pragmatist-Feminist Communitarianism
The Problem of Speaking for Others
The Privatization of Political Representation
Insubordinate Spaces
Gender as Seriality
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |