This cutting-edge research volume advances the perspective that cultural factors are key influences in movement trajectories, organizational forms, recruitment, strategies, and ideologies. Hank Johnston brings together international experts in cultural analysis to focus on narratives, frames, speech acts, subcultural networks, and cultural theory. By introducing innovative analytical methods, this title will be of key importance to scholars in sociology, political science, geography, anthropology, and women's studies.

Contents: Part I The Cultural Analysis of Social Movements: Protest cultures: performance, artifacts, and ideations, Hank Johnston. Part II Narratives and Stories in Social Movements: Storytelling in social movements, Francesca Polletta; Claiming credit: stories of movement influence as outcomes, David S. Meyer; Notorious support: the America First committee and the personalization of policy, Gary Alan Fine. Part III New Directions in Cultural Analysis: Speech act theory and protest discourse: normative claims in the communicative repertoire of 3 Russian movements, Sveta Klimova; Frames, framing, and keying: biographical perspectives on social movement participation, Ingrid Miethe; Figurative speech and cognition: metaphoric analysis of a shipyard union dispute, Gabriel Ignatow. Part IV Strategy, Innovation, and Cultural Performance: 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. Part V Resistant Cultures: Strategic Islam and the transformational grammar of Chechen nationalism, Hank Johnston; Scenes and social movements, Darcy K. Leach and Sebastian Haunss; Works cited; Index.

Hank Johnston is Associate Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University, USA.