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Atom Araullo: A View from the Ground

Atom Araullo: A View from the Ground

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"Atom Araullo writes with the truth of what he sees. In A View from the Ground, he brings you right up there, where it happened, so that it's impossible to look away. Which is the purpose of this book: to make you bear witness, too." - Ricky Lee, National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts

Araullo's essays begin with detailed portraits of individuals, including an island doctor, a weightlifter, and a scavenger, effectively drawing the reader into their lives. However, the subsequent incorporation of data, interviews, and research disrupts these narratives, leading to discussions on hunger and exploitation, gender and culture, sports and politics. The concluding images focus on individuals and the metaphors of their lives, such as a fisherman's remark about earning a livelihood and the smoke rising from a sugar refinery. Araullo's work underscores that investigative journalism is fundamentally anchored in the ability to listen and asserts that critical inquiry into the root causes of inequity is of greater significance than the "wheres" and "whens." - Joi Barrios, Poet and Fictionist

"A View from the Ground tells the stories of invisible. The telling is not loud and angry. It is focused, draws from a journalist's basic tool: the interview, and while it stays with the uncomfortable, complex facts of extreme poverty and hunger, injustice and inhumanity, the words quietly fill the spaces in between with empathy and hope. the overlooked, the neglected, the The big social issues stare at us as the precise details haunt us: storytelling as portraits of the marginalized, and as commentary on the state of things in our country. But also as Hope that somehow holds up their worlds." - Karina Africa Bolasco, Publisher

"An interesting approach that moves from a specific story to background on social, cultural, and current events, then cycles back to the story. It reads like a film documentary in print. It is a fine example of journalism that is engaging and informative. Journalism students and other aspiring writers can learn a lot from the writer's approach to the story." - Paulynn Sicam, Journalist, Columnist, and Editor
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Author: Atom Araullo

Publisher: The University of the Philippines

Year: 2025

Condition: New

Cover: Paperback

Language: English

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