In this Book
- Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: State University of New York Press
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- PART ONE: Narrative and the Sociology of Social Movements
- PART TWO: Analysis of Narrative in Social Movements
- 6. Fundamentalism: When History Goes Awry
- pp. 123-148
- PART THREE: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- pp. 247-273
- Contributors
- pp. 275-277
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791489536
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
52417958
Pages
294
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No