Culture, social movements, and protest / edited by Hank Johnston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnston, Hank, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--Cross-cultural studies.

Social movements.

Culture.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

x, 317 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]

Contents:

Protest cultures : performance, artifacts, and ideations / Hank Johnston

Storytelling in social movements / Francesca Polletta

Claiming credit : narratives of social movement influence as outcomes / David S. Meyer

Notorious support : the America First Committee and the personalization of policy / Gary Allen Fine

Speech act theory and protest discourse : normative claims in the communicative repertoire of three Russian movements / Sveta Klimova

Frames, framing, and keying: biographical perspectives on social movement participation / Ingrid Miethe

Figurative speech and cognition : a metaphoric analysis of a shipyard union dispute / Gabriel Ignatow

Making the new polis : the practice of deliberative democracy in social forums / Donatella della Porta

Movement strategizing as developmental learning : perspectives from cultural-historical activity theory / John Krinsky and Colin Barker

Strategic Islam and the transformational grammar of Chechen nationalism / Hank Johnston

Scenes and social movements / Darcy K. Leach and Sebastian Haunss.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-310) and index.

ISBN:

9780754674467

0754674460

OCLC:

234176114