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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Joseph E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Social movements.

Storytelling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 286 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite the amount of storytelling in social movements, little attention has been paid to narrative as a form of movement discourse or as a mode of social interaction. Stories of Change is a systematic study of narrative as well as a demonstration of the power of narrative analysis to illuminate many features of contemporary social movements. Davis includes a wide array of stories of change—stories of having been harmed or wronged, stories of conflict with unjust authorities, stories of liberation and empowerment, and stories of strategic success and failure. By showing how these stories are a powerful vehicle for producing, regulating, and diffusing shared meaning, the contributors explore movement stories, their functions, and the conditions under which they are created and performed. They show how narrative study can illuminate social movement emergence, recruitment, internal dynamics, and identity building.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-273) and index.

ISBN:

9780791489536

0791489531

9780585450742

0585450749

OCLC:

61367503