Recording of Sujatha Fernandes, ‘Curated stories: How storytelling is hindering social change’

The Department of Political Economy, together with the Department of Anthropology, hosted an outstanding seminar by Professor Sujatha Fernandes to a packed audience at the University of Sydney on 13 October 2016.

Professor Fernandes spoke about her notion of the ‘political economy of storytelling’, developed in her forthcoming book, Curated Stories: How Storytelling is Hindering Social Change, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2017.

There are also articles out now in the following journals that may be of interest:

A full recording of the talk and Q and A session can be streamed below.

Author: Gareth Bryant

Gareth Bryant is a political economist at the University of Sydney. He works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Economy and as economist-in-residence with the Sydney Policy Lab.

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Recording of Sujatha Fernandes, ‘Curated stories: How storytelling is hindering social change’