Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox, and Lisa Szabo-Jones Publish Book on Storytelling, Knowledge-Sharing, and Relationship

How does telling a story affect the way we understand, share, and create knowledge? With their new book, “Activating the Heart: Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing and Relationship” (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, June 2018) 2008 Foundation scholar Julia Christensen, 2009 Foundation scholar Christopher Cox, and 2009 Foundation scholar Lisa Szabo-Jones weave an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue on the significance of narrative and story – most saliently in Indigenous knowledge frameworks. Through theoretical, empirical, and literary work, the authors demonstrate how storytelling is a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies.

This book is the result of a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation-funded workshop  held in 2012 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Order the book here.