Stories of change : narrative and social movements /

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Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.
Description:vii, 286 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4607345
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Other authors / contributors:Davis, Joseph E.
ISBN:0791451917 (alk. paper)
0791451925 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-273) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Narrative and the Sociology of Social Movements
  • 1. Narrative and Social Movements: The Power of Stories / Joseph E. Davis
  • 2. Plotting Protest: Mobilizing Stories in the 1960 Student Sit-Ins / Francesca Polletta
  • 3. Controlling Narratives and Narratives as Control within Social Movements / Robert D. Benford
  • Pt. 2. Analysis of Narrative in Social Movements
  • 4. "Getting Our Histories Straight": Culture, Narrative, and Identity in the Self-Help Movement / John Steadman Rice
  • 5. Moving Toward the Light: Self, Other, and the Politics of Experience in New Age Narratives / Michael F. Brown
  • 6. Fundamentalism: When History Goes Awry / Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter
  • 7. Drug Court Stories: Transforming American Jurisprudence / James L. Nolan, Jr.
  • 8. Compassion on Trial: Movement Narrative in a Court Conflict over Physician-Assisted Suicide / Jeffrey D. Tatum
  • 9. Movement Advocates as Battered Women's Storytellers: From Varied Experiences, One Message / Bess Rothenberg
  • Pt. 3. Conclusion
  • 10. The Storied Group: Social Movements as "Bundles of Narratives" / Gary Alan Fine.