Remembering social movements : activism and memory

Author(s)

• Berger, Stefan
• Scalmer, Sean
• Wicke, Christian

Bibliographic Information

Remembering social movements : activism and memory

edited by Stefan Berger, Sean Scalmer and Christian Wicke

（Remembering the modern world）

Routledge, 2021

• : pbk

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Remembering Social Movements offers a comparative historical examination of the relations between social movements and collective memory. A detailed historiographical and theoretical review of the field introduces the reader to five key concepts to help guide analysis: repertoires of contention, historical events, generations, collective identities, and emotions. The book examines how social movements act to shape public memory as well as how memory plays an important role within social movements through 15 historical case studies, spanning labour, feminist, peace, anti-nuclear, and urban movements, as well as specific examples of 'memory activism' from the 19th century to the 21st century. These include transnational and explicitly comparative case studies, in addition to cases rooted in German, Australian, Indian, and American history, ensuring that the reader gains a real insight into the remembrance of social activism across the globe and in different contexts. The book concludes with an epilogue from a prominent Memory Studies scholar. Bringing together the previously disparate fields of Memory Studies and Social Movement Studies, this book systematically scrutinises the two-way relationship between memory and activism and uses case studies to ground students while offering analytical tools for the reader.

Table of Contents

1 Memory and social movements: an introduction 1 Stefan Berger, Sean Scalmer and Christian Wicke 2 The ascension of 'comfort women' in South Korean colonial memory 26 Lauren Richardson 3 The past in the present: memory and Indian women's politics 41 Devleena Ghosh and Heather Goodall 4 History as strategy. Imagining universal feminism in the women's movement 60 Sophie van den Elzen and Berteke Waaldijk 5 'The memory of history as a leitmotif for nonviolent resistance' - peaceful protests against nuclear missiles in Mutlangen, 1983-7 83 Richard Rohrmoser 6 Atomic testing in Australia: memories, mobilizations and mistrust 95 David Lowe 7 'The FBI Stole My Fiddle': song and memory in US radical environmentalism, 1980-95 113 Iain McIntyre 8 Memory 'within', 'of' and 'by' urban movements 133 Christian Wicke 9 Memory as a strategy? - dealing with the past in political proceedings against communists in 1950/60s West Germany 156 Sarah Langwald 10 'We believe to have good reason to regard these comrades, who died in March, to be ours.' The remembrance of the Marzgefallenen by workers' organizations during the Weimar Republic 180 Jule Ehms 11 Memory as political intervention: labor movement life narration in Australia, Jack Holloway and May Brodney 199 Liam Byrne 12 Remembering the movement for eight hours: commemoration and mobilization in Australia 219 Sean Scalmer 13 The memory of trade unionism in Germany 240 Stefan Berger 14 Protest cycles and contentious moments in memory activism: insights from postwar Germany 260 Jenny Wustenberg 15 Social movements, white and black: memory struggles in the United States South since the Civil War 280 W. Fitzhugh Brundage 16 Afterword: the multiple entanglements of memory and activism 299 Ann Rigney

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC15138939
• ISBN:
  • 9780367541552
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Abingdon ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 321 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HM881
  • DC23 : 303.48/4
  • DC23 : 303.484
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Social movements -- Historiography
  • LCSH : Social movements -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Protest movements -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Collective memory -- Political aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB15241500