Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of StoryWhy do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur. |
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... extent to which we rely on narrative to provide order to the chaos , as it were . Stories abound and we are inclined to seek a way to give them a form , a shape , we recognize and to imbue them with meaning . As will become evident in ...
... extent that they exist , are presented as caught in the crossfire . In those rare instances where state power is seized , the revolutionaries then reconstruct state and society along new material and ideological lines , pleasing enough ...
... extent that England had a real revolution , or at least some- thing approximating to one that most would recognize , it is the 1640–60 English Civil War , referred to by some as the ' Puritan Revolution ' ( e.g. Walzer , 1982 ) and by ...
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stories and social change | 23 |
THREE Myth memory mimesis | 48 |
FIVE The story of civilizing and democratizing | 96 |
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