Welcome/An Introduction
This blog will explore readings, discussions, experiences, and other forms of communication that bring together social justice, human rights-based education, and folklore studies. The original inspiration for this blog came about during my first semester of graduate school when I discovered that googling “folklore and social justice” resulted in few hits. Over the course of the past year and a half, my work as a Folk Studies graduate student interested in human rights education and social justice activism has led me to believe that each of these areas of action and study have a great deal in common and can learn a great deal from one another. This blog will be an interactive learning tool where I can share what I am reading and learning with others as I continue my exploration in these themes.
No doubt many folklorists already work in areas of human rights based activism and many activists employ the skills of an ethnographer. I hope this blog can highlight that work and those resources and serve as an interactive annotated bibliography of sorts for other folklorists and students interested in such work.
I welcome any comments, discussion, feedback, and reading suggestions. I would like to thank Dr. Tim Evans for serving as the director of my Independent Study of which this blog is a small part.