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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Becoming (Un)Productive: Grieving Death, Reclaiming Life

“Say Their Names”: Uncovering A “Good Story” Among Protestors

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25071/2563-3694.56
Submitted
August 30, 2020
Published
2021-09-27

Abstract

Katherine Bischoping and Amber Gazso (2016) use the notion of a “good story” to evaluate how successfully the storyteller conveys their message to the reader. The goal of this observational reflection paper is to explore whether the same criteria of good storytelling (i.e., good reportability, good liveability, good coherence, and good fidelity) can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of narratives told by prisoner rights protestors. I draw on my firsthand experience of a protest outside the Central East Correctional Facility in Lindsay, Ontario to develop my evaluation and conclude that the stories I observed can be analyzed using this criterion.