Format:
1 Online-Ressource (269 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781848135369
,
184813536X
,
9781282473089
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1282473085
Content:
Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur. This book argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political and social structural conditions to the thoughts and feelings of the people who make revolutions
Content:
Acknowledgments -- 1 | A prolegomenon, an apologia, and an overture -- What's the story? -- The return of stories -- What is to be done? Bringing story back in -- 'Resistance,' 'rebellion,' and 'revolution': a necessary if parenthetical intervention -- Stories of revolution -- The rest of the story -- 2 | The case for stories: stories and social change -- Pre-theory: a quick methodological dodge -- Back to our story -- 'The trouble with stories' -- Tilly's challenge: his 'trouble with stories' -- Creating and telling stories: the art of bricolage -- The role of narrative: the story of story -- Our story so far -- 3 | Myth, memory, mimesis -- Cinderella: on 'the chimera of origins' -- Myth: once upon a time… -- Memory: 'we must remember this…' -- Mimesis: adoption and adaptation -- Myth, memory, and mimesis: three is the magic number -- 4 | 'The uprising of the anecdotes': four stories of revolution -- The trouble with stories redux: a few caveats -- Who tells the stories and who hears them? -- Revolutionary romanticism and revolutionary tradition -- 'Secret' histories, or the parts we 'forget' to tell -- Making history and making connections without exoticizing and fetishizing others -- The four stories of revolution: a final thought before we go -- 5 | The story of civilizing and democratizing revolutions -- The Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian base -- 'The Glorious Revolution' or not: England's liberal moment of 1688 -- A revolutionary tradition of opposing revolution: America in 1776 and since -- When good revolutions go bad: France's cautionary tale of 1789 -- Back to the future: revolutionary returns of the liberal revolutions -- 6 | The story of social revolution -- The foundational moment: 1789 France and the new meaning of revolution -- Revolution in the 'real' world: Russia in 1917 -- Revolution in the 'modern' world: Cuba in 1959
Content:
The story of revolution -- 7 | The freedom and liberation story of revolution -- A cast of thousands: four broad categories -- Haiti and Mexico: moments of freedom and liberation -- 'Keep your eyes on the prize' -- 8 | Revolutions of the lost and forgotten: stories we don't know and won't tell -- Sparks of hope: vital vignettes of lost and forgotten revolutions -- The greatest 'forgotten' revolution: the 1871 Paris Commune -- Mexico City's 1912-16 proletarian revolution -- Socialist rebels in rural Oklahoma: the 1917 Green Corn Rebellion -- Trying to herd cats: a few more evanescent instances -- Vectors of revolution: a brief aside -- Lost and forgotten but only a memory away -- 9 | Stories of resistance, rebellion, and revolution unfold -- One last story: an intervention of sorts -- 'We tell ourselves stories in order to live' -- Resistance, rebellion, and revolution: people make their own history -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- References -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-248) and index
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Acknowledgments; 1 - A prolegomenon, an apologia, and an overture; 2 - The case for stories: stories and social change; 3 - Myth, memory, mimesis; 4 - 'The uprising of the anecdotes': four stories of revolution; 5 - The story of civilizing and democratizing revolutions; 6 - The story of social revolution; 7 - The freedom and liberation story of revolution; 8 - Revolutions of the lost and forgotten: stories we don't know and won't tell; 9 - Stories of resistance, rebellion, and revolution unfold; Notes; References; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848130173
Additional Edition:
Print version Selbin, Professor Eric Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance : The Power of Story London : Zed Books,c2013 ISBN 9781848130173
Language:
English
