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Imagining the Otherwise Curriculum: Choose Your Own Adventure
by Lucila Sandoval & Fenya Fischle | Global Narrative Hive & Intrasentido
2026
Available in English
Developed through a global writers' cohort, this curriculum offers a practical and adaptable framework for facilitating narrative change processes. Structured around five thematic modules, it combines readings, discussion prompts, writing exercises, and collective reflection activities drawing on abolitionist thought, Indigenous resistance practices, queer and feminist literature, historical memory, speculative fiction, and somatic approaches. Throughout, participants are invited to reflect on how stories shape what societies perceive as possible, dangerous, and worth protecting.
Mapping the Currents: A Manual for Community-Centered Cinema
by Jen Tarnate, Aghniadi, Patrick F. Campos, and Karmela Indoyon
2025
Mapping the Currents: A Manual for Community‑Centered Cinema draws on the Cinemata Currents 2025 film festival and hybrid screenings to share lessons on using film as a tool for fostering civic engagement. The guide explores community‑centred curation, collective screenings, and facilitated dialogue, offering case studies, reflections, and practical tools to support locally grounded film programmes and narrative practice across diverse contexts.
Mapping the Global Democracy Narrative Landscape: Research Findings and Applications
2025
Available in English
This resource synthesises data collected between 2022 and 2024 across 11 countries. Combining large‑scale narrative scans, in‑depth case studies, and message testing, it identifies the dominant and salient pro-democracy and pro-authoritarian narratives, as well as the core values that underpin them. The resource provides practical, evidence‑based guidance for developing effective messaging, emphasising the importance of aligning narratives with people’s tangible realities and core values.
Narrative Spices: An Invitational Guide for Flavorful Human Rights
by The Fund for Global Human Rights & Just Labs
2022
Available in English and French
The guide is an invitation to self-refection and creative practice for human rights advoca-tes who are interested in narrative change.
New Tech, New Rules
by Brett Davidson with contributions from Di Luong, IRIS
2026
Available in English
This report explores how civil society organisations are adapting to the challenges and opportunities of AI and algorithm‑driven platforms. Drawing on insights from ten organisations across the Global Majority, it highlights how practitioners are navigating increasingly complex digital environments to sustain civic engagement and resist authoritarian dynamics. The findings point to three key approaches: co‑opting technology and popular culture for resistance, countering surveillance and disinformation, and innovating through new forms of storytelling and organising.
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