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Re : Imagining Change:How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World.
Title:
Re : Imagining Change:How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World.
Author:
Canning, Doyle.
ISBN:
9781604863567
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (145 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Advance Praise for. . . -- Table of Contents -- Gratitude and Acknowledgements -- Epigraph -- I. INTRODUCTION: THE POWER OF STORY -- 1.1 From Improvement to Innovation -- 1.2 Our Approach: Story-based Strategy -- 1.3 About Re:Imagining Change -- Story-based Strategy Campaign Model -- II. NARRATIVE POWER ANALYSIS -- 2.1 We Are Made of Stories -- 2.2 Narrative Power Analysis -- Reflections: Storytelling -- 2.3 Power and Mythology -- 2.4 Creation Myths of the United States -- Reflections: Narrative Power -- 2.5 Filters vs. Facts -- 2.6 Designer Stories & the Branded World -- 2.7 Memes -- Movement Memes -- Reflections: Memes -- 2.8 Control Memes -- 2.9 Applying Narrative Power Analysis: Elements of Story -- Reflections: Elements of a Story -- III. WINNING THE BATTLE OF THE STORY -- 3.1 The Story of the Battle -- 3.2 The Battle of the Story -- Reflections: Story of the Battle -- Worksheet: Battle of the Story -- 3.3 Framing the Conflict -- Reflections: Information Warfare -- 3.4 Creating Narrative Frames -- 3.5 Reframing -- 3.6 Characters -- 3.7 Imagery: Show Don't Tell -- 3.8 Foreshadowing -- Brand Busting -- 3.9 Designing a Framing Narrative -- 3.10 Action Logic & Meta-Verbs -- 3.11Going Viral: Meme Campaigns -- IV. POINTS OF INTERVENTION -- 4.1 Social Change as Intervention -- 4.2 Point of Production -- 4.3 Point of Destruction -- 4.4 Point of Consumption -- 4.5 Point of Decision -- 4.6 Point of Assumption -- 4.7 Offering New Futures -- 4.8 Reframing Debates -- 4.9 Subverting Spectacles -- Selling the World Bank on eBay -- 4.10 Repurposing Pop(ular) Culture Narratives -- 4.11 Making the Invisible Visible -- Reflections: Starting with Assumptions -- Worksheet: Point of Intervention -- V. CHANGING THE STORY -- 5.1 Strategic Improvisation -- 5.2 Greenpeace: Save the Whales -- 5.3 Rural Vermont: One Contaminated Farm is One Too Many.

5.4 Protect Our Waters: Our Most Precious Resource -- 5.5 The Coalition of Immokalee Workers: Consciousness + Commitment = Change -- VI. FACING THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS: A CALL TO INNOVATION -- 6.1 Beyond Talking Points -- 6.2 The Slow-Motion Apocalypse -- 6.3 Psychic Breaks -- 6.4 Toward Ecological Justice -- ENDNOTES -- GLOSSARY -- FURTHER READING -- ABOUT SMARTMEME -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- ABOUT PM PRESS -- FRIENDS OF PM PRESS.
Abstract:
An inspirational inside look at the trailblazing methodology developed by the nonprofit strategy and training organization, smartMeme, this unique exploration provides progressive activists with the tools to get stories into the media, build successful campaigns, and connect with other organizations the world over. Providing resources, theories, hands-on tools, and illuminating case studies for the next generation of activists, this resource shows how culture, media, memes, and narrative intertwine with social-change strategies and offers practical methods to amplify progressive causes in popular culture. A summation of the smartMeme approach, this study in memetics provides practical exercises to augment movements for justice, ecological sanity, and transformative social change.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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