it was like a fever, polletta

(ix): narrative ambiguity --> political resources [WTF]

(3): two claims

1. there are risks (storylines are limiting) and benefits (sustains groups, etc.) to storytelling for disadvantaged groups.
   
2. stories will depend on the context of their telling/hearing

(5): possibilities following from culture are 'unlimited', under structural conditions [WTF is going on here].

(15): relationships between culture, structure, story are variable. sometimes one way, sometimes another. [i.e., you have no idea what you're saying]

(19): example of child abuse laws [where are the movements? this is just insulting]

(34, 51-52): stories as galvanizing for orgs [sometimes, maybe, might be--aside from everything else, the obvious flaw is that there's no evidence that the 'story' being selected is representative of the way in which the movement was actually described. this is the least of the problems, of course.]

(55): need an account of the 'cultural/ideological' context that forecloses some strategic options [yawn]

(58): SNCC abandons participatory democracy when it becomes symbolically associated with 'white' dominance of the org. this in turn rules out local leadership, rules in central leadership which it turns to [hmm]

(84, 107-108): narrative in public deliberation can be both harmful for or facilitative of deliberative democracy, because wile it's normatively powerful it's also considered politically unserious [this arg makes no sense to me, but surely it's important that she is observing a public forum where there is basically no political disagreement?]

(111): casting oneself as victim doesn't necessarily reduce agency. narrative of victim with agency is possible

(143): officials constrained by institutional conventions of storytelling--King integrated into pluralist framework, and elected officials were the bearers of his dream. this was awkward [no shit]

(164-165): Mexicans had Zapata, whereas Sandinistas lacked Sandino, b/c of respective government attitudes [WTF!?!?!]

(166): narrative is both subversive and hegemonic [ok. what are the conditions that produce one or the other?]

(169): for activists, familiar stories are often more an obstacle than a resource. [ok--but the implied counterfactuals, here, are still ludicrous. alternative is to say we weigh tthis with other factors. but when we do that, this is revealed as basically unimportant, i think]

(179): narratives can help you arrive at causal stories [really? bs]