Other’s voices: Why “Dispatches from the Street”?

Crispin Thurlow & Amoshaun Toft

She slept in tents on the street to write about the homeless, worked in the fields to write about migrant workers and sat through countless meetings of patriot groups to write about their politics. “Deborah was always interested in giving voice to the voiceless,” said her brother Gordon Kaplan. (Seattle P-I, 2006, Nov 23)

Thurlow, C., & Toft, A. (2008). Other’s voices: Why “Dispatches from the Street”? International and Intercultural Communication, 1(4), 265-268. (personal copy) An introduction for the posthumously published Kaplan, D. (2008). Dispatches from the Street. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1(4), 269-289.