Re: [xmca] Summer reading

On this topic: there's an edited collection by Maxine Hong Kingston based on
her "healing workshops" she's conducted with war veterans (mainly Vietnam, but
others; and including war widows), in which they use literary forms to work
through their war experiences. Bill Moyers dedicated an entire program to her
and the book earlier this summer.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:37:21 -0400
>From: Emily Duvall <duvalleg@comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [xmca] Summer reading
>To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>
>Wow - that sounds amazing.
>I would begin investigating what UNICEF has done with children such as
>Bael, particularly their use of storytellers to facilitate.
>Actually I'm quite intrigued by personal narratives, why we write them
>/and /read them. My husband is a Viet Nam vet - he was attached to the
>Marine Corp and did recon, basically hired kills in his case - and he
>has slowly been emerging from the horrors not only through
>psychotherapy, behavior management, and medication, but also through
>storytelling opportunities. Last year some students interviewed him for
>an undergrad film-making project (they were interviewing vets) and the
>video recordings were ultimately placed not only in the Penn State
>archives, but in a local war museum and has been placed in the federal
>archives for future researchers and interested members of the public. He
>was given a copy and it's fascinating to see him tell his stories, but
>also to listen to him reflect on the process of telling his story to
>these two young people.
>I guess it sounds a little too "oh the healing power of story", but I
>think there is something to the externalization end of the process, said
>the non-psychologist.
>Nonetheless, it would be interesting and potentially useful to consider
>guerrilla and paramilitary methods, not to mention reintegration of the
>children, in terms of the internalization process that might be going on
>within these 'cultural' activities.
>I hope you'll keep us posted. I think this could be valuable work in
>terms of the gang cultures as well.
>~ Em
>P.S. Has there been any investigations of the Hitler youth or the
>children involved in the cultural revolution in China?
>
>Martin Packer wrote:
>> Last year I had the opportunity to talk with staff at the Colombian Ministry
>> of Education in Bogotá, and learned from them about the problems of the
>> Œreinserted¹ children - former child soldiers who were recruited or simply
>> kidnapped by guerilla or paramilitary groups there. As these children are
>> escaping, or as the groups are disbanding, they are becoming the
>> responsibility of the Ministry. We started to think about a possible
>> research project that might benefit all concerned. One possibility we
>> discussed was that we might learn a great deal from these children about
the
>> rationality and motivation of the guerilla and paramilitary groups ­ that
>> interviews with them could throw light on the sources of conflict and
>> possible pathways to peace for these groups, and also on the best way to
>> facilitate the reintegration of the children into mainstream society.
>>
>> If anyone would be interested in collaborating on such a project, or has
>> suggestions on how best to carry it out, or improve it, please let me know.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/13/07 8:09 PM, "Cunningham, Donald James"
<cunningh@indiana.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Em, I first heard of the book here:
>>>
>>> http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/
celebrity_inter
>>> views/index.jhtml?playVideo=82274
>>>
>>> An odd source, I know, but Jon Stewart may be our most astute journalist
>>> today.
>>>
>>> Persevere!
>>>
>>> Don Cunningham
>>> Indiana University
>>>
>>> Ancora Imparo!
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-
bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
>>> On Behalf Of E Duvall
>>> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 4:58 PM
>>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] Summer reading
>>>
>>> Thank you for the recommendation Donald... I went up on line to
>>> http://www.alongwaygone.com/index.html
>>> and read about the book, read an excerpt and watched a video recording.
>>> This short visit was... that feeling you get when you don't know what's
>>> around the corner, but you need to look some truth in the eye but you're
>>> scared to look because you don't know what the looking will do to you.
>>> I'm a little scared to read the book; I hope to persevere.
>>> ~ Em
>>>
>>> --
>>> He only earns his freedom and his life, who takes them every day by
>>> storm.
>>> -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
>>>
>>> Emily Duvall
>>> Doctoral Candidate (ABD) / Graduate Assistant-Instructor
>>> Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
>>> Department of Curriculum and Instruction
>>> College of Education
>>> Penn State University
>>> 256 Chambers Bldg.
>>> University Park , PA 16802
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>> From: "Cunningham, Donald James" <cunningh@indiana.edu>
>>>
>>>> Tony,
>>>>
>>>> Instead of the Garfinkle book you might read "A Long Way Gone" by
>>>> Ishmael Beah. It has nothing and everything to do with the issues we
>>>> have been discussing...........djc
>>>>
>>>> Don Cunningham
>>>> Indiana University
>>>>
>>>> Ancora Imparo!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-
bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
>>>> On Behalf Of Tony Whitson
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:26 AM
>>>> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>>>> Subject: [xmca] no Garfinkel book, after all
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:13:55 -0700 (PDT)
>>>> From: "order-update@amazon.com" <order-update@amazon.com>
>>>> To: "twhitson@udel.edu" <twhitson@UDel.Edu>
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Harold Garfinkel, Anne Rawls (Editor) "Sociology of Information"
>>>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594512817
>>>>
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>--
>He only earns his freedom and his life, who takes them every day by storm.
>-- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
>
>Emily Duvall
>Doctoral Candidate (ABD) / Graduate Assistant-Instructor
>Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
>Department of Curriculum and Instruction
>College of Education
>Penn State University
>256 Chambers Bldg.
>University Park , PA 16802
>814-861-3315 (home)
>814-404-6175 (cell)
>814-863-4511 (office)
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