Memory And Social Movements In Modern And Contemporary History

Author : Stefan Berger,Christian Koller
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 3031528182

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Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary History by Stefan Berger,Christian Koller Pdf

Reflecting the growing interest of historians in memory studies, this edited collection examines the relationship between memory and global social movements from 1848 to the present. For a long time, there has been little attempt by historians to consider memory and social activism in an integrated, systematic, and comparative way. However, in recent years, scholars have demonstrated that social movements rely on collective memories to assert claims, mobilize supporters, and legitimize their political visions, while also helping to further shape collective memories. This book delves into the synergies between memory studies and social movements, exploring how social movements have been constructing and creating memories of their own activity, how specific landscapes of memory have influenced social movements, and how activists have used memory as a cultural resource to further their own goals and ambitions. The case studies presented cover a range of different types of political activism, including the fights for workers’, gay, feminist, and pacifist rights, as well as ecological, urban, and far-right movements across the globe, portraying the diverse interrelations that exist between social movements and collective memory.

Author : Stefan Berger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031528194

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Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary History by Stefan Berger Pdf

Author : Samuel Merrill,Emily Keightley,Priska Daphi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030328276

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Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media by Samuel Merrill,Emily Keightley,Priska Daphi Pdf

This collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, it reveals how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, its contributors address mobilizations of mediated remembrance in the USA, Germany, Sweden, Italy, India, Argentina, the UK and Russia.

Author : Stefan Berger,Sean Scalmer,Christian Wicke
Publisher : Remembering the Modern World
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 0367541556

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Remembering Social Movements by Stefan Berger,Sean Scalmer,Christian Wicke Pdf

"This book offers a comparative historical examination of the relations between social movements and collective memory. It 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 that ensure the reader gains a real insight into the remembrance of social activism across the globe and in different contexts. Bringing together the 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"--

Author : Stefan Berger,Christoph Cornelissen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030038045

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Marxist Historical Cultures and Social Movements during the Cold War by Stefan Berger,Christoph Cornelissen Pdf

This book explores the relationship between diverse social movements and Marxist historical cultures during the second half of the twentieth century in Western Europe, with special emphasis on the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy. During the Cold War, Marxist ideas and understandings of history informed not only the traditional Communist Parties in Western Europe, but also influenced a range of new social movements that emerged in the 1970s in the wake of the 1968 student rebellions. The generation of 1968 was strongly influenced by neo-Marxist ideas that they subsequently carried into the new social movements. The volume asks how Marxist historical cultures influenced third world movements, anti-fascist movements, the peace movement and a whole host of other new social movements that signaled a new vibrancy of civil society in Western Europe from the 1970s onwards.

Author : Lorenzo Zamponi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319685519

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Social Movements, Memory and Media by Lorenzo Zamponi Pdf

Cultural factors shape the symbolic environment in which contentious politics take place. Among these factors, collective memories are particularly relevant: they can help collective action by providing symbolic material from the past, but at the same time they can constrain people's ability to mobilise by imposing proscriptions and prescriptions. This book analyses the relationship between social movements and collective memories: how do social movements participate in the building of public memory? And how does public memory, and in particular the media’s representation of a contentious past, influence strategic choices in contemporary movements? To answer these questions the book draws its focus on the evolution of the representation of specific events in the Italian and Spanish student movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Furthermore, through qualitative interviews to contemporary student activists in both countries, it investigates the role of past waves of contention in shaping the present through the publicly discussed image of the past.

Author : Valesca Lima,Rafaela N. Pannain,Gabriela Pereira Martins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000641783

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The Consequences of Brazilian Social Movements in Historical Perspective by Valesca Lima,Rafaela N. Pannain,Gabriela Pereira Martins Pdf

This book sheds light on the outcomes of social movements in Brazil. It provides an extensive analysis of how and when collective mobilization and protest activities brought about social and political change. Charting the dynamics and characteristics of Brazil’s social movements from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the present day, the contributors to this edited volume demonstrate the processes of social movement activism in Brazil, and its relations with political institutions across various types of governments and political regimes. They bring to light both political opportunity structures of different historical periods, and the political and cultural consequences of mobilization stemming from the collective action of social movements. Showcasing various approaches, the book encompasses a plurality of methodological perspectives including network analysis, collective memory, trajectories, and quantitative techniques of process analysis. Ultimately, the authors present new empirical evidence about social movement outcomes in Brazil, including the mobilization for housing rights, institutionalization processes in a re-democratized society, the effects of anti-dictatorship movements on activists, transformations of political agendas and the diffusion of social protests. Interdisciplinary at its core and highly engaging, The Consequences of Brazilian Social Movements in Historical Perspective offers essential reading on social movement studies to academics, activists and students.

Author : M. Beyen,B. Deseure
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137469380

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Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World by M. Beyen,B. Deseure Pdf

In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political élites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop out of a never-ending, triangular negotiation between local, national and transnational actors.

Author : Donatella Della Porta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190860936

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Legacies and Memories in Movements by Donatella Della Porta Pdf

Legacies and Memories in Movements addresses the long term effects of democratic transitions on social movements in Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain. Donatella della Porta and her collaborators examine the concepts of historical legacy and memory, suggesting ways to apply them in analyses of the long-term effects of movements, movement participation, and movement strategies and tactics.

Author : Guido Bartolini,Joseph Ford
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783111013503

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Mediating Historical Responsibility by Guido Bartolini,Joseph Ford Pdf

Mediating Historical Responsibility brings together leading scholars and new voices in the interdisciplinary fields of memory studies, history, and cultural studies to explore the ways culture, and cultural representations, have been at the forefront of bringing the memory of past injustices to the attention of audiences for many years. Engaging with the darkest pages of twentieth-century European history, dealing with the legacy of colonialism, war crimes, genocides, dictatorships, and racism, the authors of this collection of critical essays address Europe’s ‘difficult pasts’ through the study of cultural products, examining historical narratives, literary texts, films, documentaries, theatre, poetry, graphic novels, visual artworks, material heritage, and the cultural and political reception of official government reports. Adopting an intermedial approach to the study of European history, the book probes the relationship between memory and responsibility, investigating what it means to take responsibility for the past and showing how cultural products are fundamentally entangled in this process.

Author : Roberta Villalón
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442267268

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Memory, Truth, and Justice in Contemporary Latin America by Roberta Villalón Pdf

This powerful text provides the first systematic analysis of the second wave of memory and justice mobilization throughout Latin America. Pairing clear explanations of concepts and debates with case studies, the book offers a unique opportunity for students to interpret the history and politics of Latin American countries. The contributors provide insight into human rights issues and grassroots movements that are essential for a broader understanding of struggles for justice, memory, and equality across the globe, especially during our current unsettled times of political polarization, violence, repression, and popular resistance worldwide.

Author : Luis van Isschot
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780299299842

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The Social Origins of Human Rights by Luis van Isschot Pdf

Offering deep insight to the lives of human rights activists in a conflict zone, against the backdrop of major historical changes that shaped Latin America in the twentieth century, this book illuminates the critical role of human rights organizations in bringing violence to public attention and analyzing its causes and consequences.

Author : Yifat Gutman,Jenny Wüstenberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000646290

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The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism by Yifat Gutman,Jenny Wüstenberg Pdf

This Handbook is the first systematic effort to map the fast-growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies. From Charlottesville to Cape Town, from Santiago to Sydney, we have recently witnessed protesters demanding that symbols of racist or colonial pasts be dismantled and that we talk about histories that have long been silenced. But such events are only the most visible instances of grassroots efforts to influence the meaning of the past in the present. Made up of more than 80 chapters that encapsulate the rich diversity of scholarship and practice of memory activism by assembling different disciplinary traditions, methodological approaches, and empirical evidence from across the globe, this Handbook establishes important questions and their theoretical implications arising from the social, political, and economic reality of memory activism. Memory activism is multifaceted, takes place in a variety of settings, and has diverse outcomes – but it is always crucial to understanding the constitution and transformation of our societies, past and present. This volume will serve as a guide and establish new analytic frameworks for scholars, students, policymakers, journalists, and activists alike.

Author : Georg G Iggers,Q. Edward Wang,Supriya Mukherjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134856404

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A Global History of Modern Historiography by Georg G Iggers,Q. Edward Wang,Supriya Mukherjee Pdf

The first book on historiography to adopt a global and comparative perspective on the topic, A Global History of Modern Historiography looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere around the world over the course of the past two and a half centuries. This second edition contains fully updated sections on Latin American and African historiography, discussion of the development of global history, environmental history, and feminist and gender history in recent years, and new coverage of Russian historical practices. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, the authors analyse historical currents in a changing political, social and cultural context, examining both the adaptation and modification of the Western influence on historiography and how societies outside Europe and America found their own ways in the face of modernization and globalization. Supported by online resources including a selection of excerpts from key historiographical texts, this book offers an up-to-date account of the status of historical writing in the global era and is essential reading for all students of modern historiography.

Author : Mikyoung Kim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030059064

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Korean Memories and Psycho-Historical Fragmentation by Mikyoung Kim Pdf

This pioneering book is the first English volume on Korean memories. In it, Mikyoung Kim introduces ‘psycho-historical fragmentation’, a concept that explains South Korea’s mnemonic rupture as a result of living under intense temporal, psychological and physical pressure. As Korean society has undergone transformation at unusual speed and intensity, so has its historical memory. Divided into three sections, on lingering colonial legacies, the residuals of the Cold War and Korean War, and Korea’s democracy movement in the 1980s, Korean Memories and Psycho-Historical Fragmentation aims to tell multi-layered, subtle and lesser-known stories of Korea’s historical past. With contributions from interdisciplinary perspectives, it reveals the fragmentation of Korean memory and the impact of silencing.