Writing Banal Inequalities
How to Fabricate Stories Which Disrupt

Explores how to disrupt banal inequalities through writing in ways which are accessible and challenge current social linguistic regimes.

Hannah Cowan (Edited by), Hannah Cowan (Author), Alfonso Del Percio (Edited by), Alfonso Del Percio (Author)

9781009108515, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 June 2023

75 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm, 0.135 kg

In this Element, the authors write about the everyday production and experiences of banal inequality. Through a series of sections, each comprising of a blogpost written for Disruptive Inequalities, and a commentary from the author on the predicaments they encountered in the writing process, this Element shares, and confronts, the ways we fabricate stories and use writing to resist. It makes visible the choices, practices, and reflections that have led to the writing of our stories and offers the tools we have used to fabricate them, to all those who may find them meaningful to appropriate, adapt, and translate to fight the struggles that they want to fight. These tools are formulated in a way for writers to develop their own methods of storytelling and activism. The authors hope this Element contributes to an ongoing debate on how writing serves banal resistance.

1. Introduction: Writing Banal Inequalities Alfonso Del Percio and Hannah Cowan
2. Everything is Genre William Nyerere Plastow
3. Writing Through Mess Natassia Brenman
4. On Poverty Porn Alfonso Del Percio
5. Writing the Other Amal Latif
6. Writing As Rioting: The Resistance of the Object Sibo Kanobana
7. Finding Places to Disrupt Hannah Cowan
8. Conclusion: Forming a Banal Resistance Hannah Cowan.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]