Culture, social movements, and protest

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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors PART I: THE CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 1 Protest Cultures: Performance, Artifacts, and Ideations PART II: NARRATIVES AND STORIES IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 2 Storytelling in Social Movements 3 Claiming Credit: Stories of Movement Influence as Outcomes 4 Notorious Support: The America First Committee and the Personalization of Policy PART III: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CULTURAL ANALYSIS 5 Speech Act Theory and Protest Discourse: Normative Claims in the Communicative Repertoire of Three Russian Movements 6 Frames, Framing, and Keying: Biographical Perspectives on Social Movement Participation 7 Figurative Speech and Cognition: Metaphoric Analysis of a Shipyard Union Dispute PART IV: STRATEGY, INNOVATION, AND CULTURAL PERFORMANCE 8 Making the New Polis: The Practice of Deliberative Democracy in Social Forums 9 Movement Strategizing as Developmental Learning: Perspectives from Cultural-Historical Activity Theory PART V: RESISTANT CULTURES 10 Strategic Islam and the Transformational Grammar of Chechen Nationalism 11 Scenes and Social Movements Works Cited Index The goal of this volume is to present cutting-edge empirical research that demonstrates the centrality of a different set of cultural processes in explaining protest movements and their development