Culture, social movements, and protest / edited by Hank Johnston.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Protest cultures : performance, artifacts, and ideations / Hank Johnston -- Storytelling in social movements / Francesca Polletta -- Claiming credit : narratives of social movement influence as outcomes / David S. Meyer -- Notorious support : the America First Committee and the personalization of policy / Gary Allen Fine -- Speech act theory and protest discourse : normative claims in the communicative repertoire of three Russian movements / Sveta Klimova -- Frames, framing, and keying: biographical perspectives on social movement participation / Ingrid Miethe -- Figurative speech and cognition : a metaphoric analysis of a shipyard union dispute / Gabriel Ignatow -- Making the new polis : the practice of deliberative democracy in social forums / Donatella della Porta -- Movement strategizing as developmental learning : perspectives from cultural-historical activity theory / John Krinsky and Colin Barker -- Strategic Islam and the transformational grammar of Chechen nationalism / Hank Johnston -- Scenes and social movements / Darcy K. Leach and Sebastian Haunss.