Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements

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Contents Acknowledgments vii PART ONE Narrative and the Sociology of Social Movements 1. Narrative and Social Movements: The Power of Stories Joseph E. Davis 3 2. Plotting Protest: Mobilizing Stories in the 1960 Student Sit-Ins Francesca Polletta 31 3. Controlling Narratives and Narratives as Control within Social Movements Robert D. Benford 53 PART TWO Analysis of Narrative in Social Movements 4. “Getting Our Histories Straight”: Culture, Narrative, and Identity in the Self-Help Movement John Steadman Rice 79 5. Moving Toward the Light: Self, Other, and the Politics of Experience in New Age Narratives Michael F. Brown 101 6. Fundamentalism: When History Goes Awry Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter 123 v 7. Drug Court Stories: Transforming American Jurisprudence James L. Nolan Jr. 149 8. Compassion on Trial: Movement Narrative in a Court Conflict over Physician-Assisted Suicide Jeffery D. Tatum 179 9. Movement Advocates as Battered Women’s Storytellers: From Varied Experiences, One Message Bess Rothenberg 203 PART THREE Conclusion 10. The Storied Group: Social Movements as “Bundles of Narratives” Gary Alan Fine 229 Bibliography 247 Contributors 275 Index 279 vi CONTENTS ...