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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Davis, Joseph E.
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002], ©2002.
Subjects:
Storytelling.
Social movements.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Physical Description:vii, 286 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.