It was like a fever : storytelling in protest and politics /
Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960 four black college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave. Within a month sit-ins spread to thirty cities in seven states. St...
| Основен автор: | Polletta, Francesca. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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Print version::
It was like a fever. |
Съдържание:
- Why stories matter
- "It was like a fever
- " : why people protest
- Strategy as metonymy : why activists choose the strategies they do
- Stories and reasons : why deliberation is only sometimes democratic
- Ways of knowing and stories worth telling : why casting oneself as a victim sometimes hurts the cause
- Remembering Dr. King on the House and Senate floor : why movements have the impacts they do
- Conclusion: folk wisdom and scholarly tales.