Stories of change
Subtitle: narrative and social movements
By: edited by Joseph E. Davis
Contributors: Davis, Joseph E
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Storytelling; Social movements; Discourse analysis, Narrative
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-273) and index
Table of contents: title: Narrative and social movements: the power of stories / Joseph E. Davis; title: Plotting protest: mobilizing stories in the 1960 student sit-ins / Francesca Polletta; title: Controlling narratives and narratives as control within social movements / Robert D. Benford; title: "Getting our histories straight": culture, narrative, and identity in the self-help movement / John Steadman Rice; title: Moving toward the light: self, other, and the politics of experience in new age narratives / Michael F. Brown; title: Fundamentalism: when history goes awry / Joshua J. Yates and James Davidson Hunter; title: Drug court stories: transforming American jurisprudence / James C. Nolan Jr.; title: compassion on trial: movement narrative in a court conflict over physician-assisted suicide / Jeffrey D. Tatum; title: 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