Culture, Social Movements, and Protest

by Johnston,Hank; Johnston,Hank

• ISBN13: 9780754674467
• ISBN10: 0754674460
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This cutting-edge research volume advances the widely accepted perspective that cultural factors are central elements in shaping trajectories, organizational forms, recruitment, protest strategies and ideologies of social movements. Hank Johnston brings together international experts in cultural analysis to focus on narratives, frames, speech acts, subcultural networks, and new developments in cultural theory. By introducing innovative methodologies, this title will be of key importance to scholars across the social sciences, including sociology, political science, geography, anthropology, and women's studies. Johnston's exciting book is a significant contribution to the cultural analysis of social movements.

Table of Contents

The Cultural Analysis of Social Movements

Protest cultures: performance, artifacts, and ideations

Narratives and Stories in Social Movements

Storytelling in social movements

Claiming credit: stories of movement influence as outcomes

Notorious support: the America First committee and the personalization of policy

New Directions in Cultural Analysis

Speech act theory and protest discourse: normative claims in the communicative repertoire of 3 Russian movements

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

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

Strategy, Innovation, and Cultural Performance

Making the new polis: the practice of deliberative democracy in social forums

Movement strategizing as developmental learning: perspectives from cultural-historical activity theory

Resistant Cultures

Strategic Islam and the transformational grammar of Chechen nationalism

Scenes and social movements

Works cited

Index

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