Salba Istorya/Salba Buhay: Save Story/Save Life: Collaborative Storying in the Wake of Typhoons

Abstract

Bobis proposes a creative–critical methodology of “saving stories/saving lives” through the collaborative storying among diverse modes of knowing and making sense of typhoons. Focusing on two super typhoons in the Philippines (Reming/Durian, 2006; Yolanda/Haiyan, 2013), Bobis places the storytelling by typhoon survivors in conversation with “stories” from literature and the creative arts, indigenous and religious faith, and science. How can this collaborative saving of stories save lives? To respond to this question, she threads the geographical and cultural context of the disasters with the creative production of a radio ficto-documentary on Philippine typhoons, and the development of a community storytelling project for disaster management and precaution around an environmentally vulnerable river in her native region.