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.