Stories, Identities, and Political Change

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 257 sider
An award winning sociologist, Charles Tilly has been equally influential in explaining politics, history, and how societies change.

Tilly's 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, both as means of creating personal identity, but also as explanations, true or false, of political tensions andrealities. He uses well known examples from around the world -- the Zapatista rebellion, Hindu-Muslin 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.

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Introduction
3
Softcore Solipsism 31555
15
The Trouble with Stories
25
Copyright

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Om forfatteren (2002)

Charles Tilly, the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, is the author of more than thirty books. He lives in Manhattan, New York.

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