Remembering Social Movements
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…
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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