It Was Like a Fever Storytelling in Protest and Politics

Name: It Was Like a Fever Storytelling in Protest and Politics
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ISBN: 9780226673769

ISBN-10: 0226673766

ISBN-13: 9780226673769

Edition: 2006

Authors: Francesca Polletta

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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. Student participants told stories of impulsive, spontaneous action—this despite all the planning that had gone into the sit-ins. “It was like a fever,” they said. Francesca Polletta’s It Was Like a Fever sets out to account for the power of storytelling in mobilizing political and social movements. Drawing on cases ranging from sixteenth-century tax revolts to contemporary debates about the future…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



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


Notes


Index