TY  - BOOK
AU  - Polletta,Francesca
TI  - It was like a fever: storytelling in protest and politics 
SN  - 9780226673776 (electronic bk.)
AV  - GR72.3 .P65 2006eb (Online)
U1  - 808.5/43 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Storytelling
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Communication
KW  - Politics and culture
KW  - Communication in folklore
KW  - Social movements
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Verhalen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Politieke aspecten
KW  - Protestbewegingen
KW  - Politik
KW  - swd
KW  - Erzählen
KW  - Protestbewegung
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-230) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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