Stories, Identities, and Political Change

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Stories, Identities, and Political Change

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An award-winning sociologist, Charles Tilly has been equally influential in explaining politics, history, and how societies change. TillyOs newest book tackles fundamental questions about the nature of personal, political, and national identities and their linkage to big events_revolutions, social movements, democratization, and other processes of political and social change. Tilly focuses in this book on the role of stories, as means of creating personal identity, but also as explanations, true or false, of political tensions and realities. He uses well-known examples from around the world_the Zapatista rebellion, Hindu-Muslim conflicts, and other examples in which nationalism and other forms of group identity are politically pivotal. Tilly writes with the immediacy of a journalist, but the profound insight of a great theorist.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Stories and Explanations
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Softcore Solipsism
Chapter 4 The Trouble with Stories
Part 5 Political Identities
Chapter 6 Stein Rokkan and Political Identities
Chapter 7 Political Identities in History
Chapter 8 Micro, Macro, or Megrim?
Chapter 9 Social Movements and Other Political Interactions
Part 10 Contentious Voices
Chapter 11 Voice in Contentious Politics
Chapter 12 Contentious Conversation
Chapter 13 Where Do Rights Come From?
Chapter 14 Power-Top Down and Bottom Up
Part 15 Political Change
Chapter 16 States and Nationalism in Europe 1492-1992
Chapter 17 The Time of States
Chapter 18 Processes and Mechanisms of Democratization
Chapter 19 So What?

Product details

Published Oct 28 2002
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9781461642602
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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