Stories of change : narrative and social movements / edited by Joseph E. Davis.

Other author Davis, Joseph E.
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Descriptionvii, 286 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Narrative and social movements: the power of stories / Joseph E. Davis -- Plotting protest: mobilizing stories in the 1960 student sit-ins / Francesca Polletta -- Controlling narratives and narratives as control within social movements / Robert D. Benford -- "Getting our histories straight": culture, narrative, and identity in the self-help movement / John Steadman Rice -- Moving toward the light: self, other, and the politics of experience in new age narratives / Michael F. Brown -- Fundamentalism: when history goes awry / Joshua J. Yates and James Davidson Hunter -- Drug court stories: transforming American jurisprudence / James C. Nolan Jr. -- compassion on trial: movement narrative in a court conflict over physician-assisted suicide / Jeffrey D. Tatum -- Movement advocates as battered women's storytellers: from varied experiences, one message / Bess Rothenberg - The storied group: social movements as "bundles of narratives" / Gary Alan Fine.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-273) and index.
LCCN 2001020146
ISBN0791451917 (alk. paper)
ISBN0791451925 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GR72.3 .S755 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold