Francesca Polletta is professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling and Protest Politics and Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements, and coeditor of Passionate Politics: Emotions in Social Movements, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

"Imagining the Ties That Bind is a perceptive meditation on the capacities and deceptions of everyday social imaginaries. Polletta has given us a powerful thinking tool to enrich our research with a broader and more piercing sociological imagination."

• Preface1 Relationships, Real and Imagined2 Free-Riders and Freedom Riders3 Whom One Oweswith Zaibu Tufail4 Publics, Partners, and the Promise of Dialogue5 The Art of Authentic Connection6 Solidarity without Intimacy7 The Uneasy Balm of CommunicationNotesIndex

Francesca Polletta is professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling and Protest Politics and Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements, and coeditor of Passionate Politics: Emotions in Social Movements, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

"Imagining the Ties That Bind is a perceptive meditation on the capacities and deceptions of everyday social imaginaries. Polletta has given us a powerful thinking tool to enrich our research with a broader and more piercing sociological imagination."

• Preface1 Relationships, Real and Imagined2 Free-Riders and Freedom Riders3 Whom One Oweswith Zaibu Tufail4 Publics, Partners, and the Promise of Dialogue5 The Art of Authentic Connection6 Solidarity without Intimacy7 The Uneasy Balm of CommunicationNotesIndex

Francesca Polletta is professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling and Protest Politics and Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements, and coeditor of Passionate Politics: Emotions in Social Movements, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

"Imagining the Ties That Bind is a perceptive meditation on the capacities and deceptions of everyday social imaginaries. Polletta has given us a powerful thinking tool to enrich our research with a broader and more piercing sociological imagination."

• Preface1 Relationships, Real and Imagined2 Free-Riders and Freedom Riders3 Whom One Oweswith Zaibu Tufail4 Publics, Partners, and the Promise of Dialogue5 The Art of Authentic Connection6 Solidarity without Intimacy7 The Uneasy Balm of CommunicationNotesIndex