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EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: In a series on making \u201cgood trouble\u201d through journalism<\/strong><\/a>, Paul A. Kramer of Vanderbilt University argues for seven approaches that can help create partnerships between writers and readers in ways that can better address social problems. From his introduction: \u201cThe best narrative non-fiction writing on social problems \u2026 grapples with a particular social reality in order to question it, subject it to critical attention and convince readers that its existence and continuance is not inevitable.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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The fourth of the re-frames calls for re-specification: stories that help align tracing the root causes of current problems. Additional approaches will be posted this week and next.<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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You have something to do with why this problem is happening.<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Responsibility work takes on things that readers know are problems \u2014 problems in which they are complicit and may even hurt people they care about but for which they don\u2019t feel responsible. Readers may think that this isn\u2019t their problem, not because it doesn\u2019t affect them but because they don\u2019t feel it is their fault.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Here the writer\u2019s job is to show readers how, even without knowing it, they participate in instigating, permitting or perpetuating the problem through their actions or inactions. To do this, writers may need to take on readers\u2019 assumed understandings of how causation works in the world and how far one\u2019s responsibility extends.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Readers come to a piece with powerful but usually subterranean moral maps that tell them how far out their actions and inactions extend; these maps may be vastly inaccurate, tailored by political ideology and the pursuit of limited liability rather than by the demands of justice. So writers may need to establish causal connections that link one thing to another in ways that are compelling and believable even, or especially, if they are unconventional.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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For an outstanding example of responsibility work, take Nicolas Niarchos\u2019 New Yorker portrait in 2021 of cobalt extraction in Congo, \u201cThe Dark Side of Congo\u2019s Cobalt Rush.\u201d<\/a> The piece reveals how, in the context of oppressive poverty resulting from colonialism, dictatorship and civil war, skyrocketing prices for cobalt have fueled a rush of dangerous mining in Congo. The industry is overseen by Chinese company officials and supplied by a hyper-exploited labor force that includes children as young as 4.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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The article brings these realities home to the very technologies on which readers are likely reading it: Cobalt is currently an essential element in many electronic devices, preventing them from overheating. The piece makes clear exactly how much company profits and consumer convenience depend on harrowing, exploitative relationships. The author extends responsibility to readers, whose material goods and ways of living are tied to oppressive conditions they subsidize with their everyday choices, knowingly or not.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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At one point, Niarchos asks Ziki, a former child cobalt miner, \u201cwhat he thought of people who profited from cobalt mining. \u2018I have sadness in my heart when I think of people who buy the minerals,\u2019 he said. \u2018They make so much money, and we have to stay like this.\u2019 When I told him that Americans paid more than a thousand dollars for the latest iPhone, he replied, \u2018It really hurts me to hear that.\u201d Later, Niarchos notes that in 2016, Apple issued a self-exonerating statement stating that \u201cunderage labor is never tolerated\u201d in their supply chains. \u201cThe following year, after a report by Sky News showed that cobalt mined by children was still being used in the company\u2019s devices, Apple suspended purchases of hand-mined cobalt, but once the media attention died down the practice continued.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Missteps in responsibility-focused stories can include simplistic and linear causal chains, or assigning responsibility to actors or institutions that aren\u2019t really that blameworthy. There are conspiracy\u2019s mental comforts, the tightly woven spider-charts of nefarious cause-and-effect. There is the risk of charging readers with complicity in a way that\u2019s alienating rather than activating, perhaps with the writer casting themselves as righteous and blameless.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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There\u2019s also the opposite problem of not making a convincing case for responsibility, instead counting on readers to feel responsible before they are convinced. And there is always the danger of making the case for responsibility in ways that promote self-indulgent guilt.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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But with attention and craft, there are balances to be struck here, which allow readers to encounter and experience responsibility in ways that remain joined to the people affected by their actions or inactions.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Related Posts<\/h2>\n\n
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Introduction<\/a>:\u00a0Making good trouble<\/p>\n

I.\u00a0Exposure<\/a>:\u00a0Highlighting overlooked problems<\/p>\n

II.\u00a0Urgency<\/a>:\u00a0Revealing the immediacy of problems<\/p>\n

III.\u00a0Activation<\/a>:\u00a0Challenging a sense of powerlessness<\/p>\n

IV.\u00a0Re-specification<\/a>:\u00a0Reconsidering causes and effects of a problem<\/p>\n

V.\u00a0Solidarity<\/a>:\u00a0Standing with those affected<\/p>\n

VI.\u00a0Responsibility<\/a>:\u00a0Connecting action to consequence<\/p>\n

VII.\u00a0Value-switching<\/a>:\u00a0Considering different moral stances<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/a>:\u00a0The gift of narrative nonfiction<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\t\n<\/div> \n

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NEXT: Considering other value systems<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Paul A. Kramer <\/strong>is an associate professor at Vanderbilt University<\/a>, where he teaches history and non-fiction writing. He is the author of several academic studies and essays that have been published by major news sites. His book, \u201cThe Blood of Government,\u201d has won several awards, including being named a finalist for the Philippines National Book Award in the social science category.<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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