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This book offers a comparative historical examination of the relations between social movements and collective memory. It brings together the previously disparate fields of Memory Studies and Social Movement Studies, and uses case studies to ground students while offering analytical tools for the reader.
Sommario
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 1950/60sWest 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
Märzgefallenen 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 Wüstenberg
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
Info autore
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany. He is also executive chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr, and an honorary professor at Cardiff University in theUK. His books on social movements include (with Holger Nehring)
The History of Social Movement in Global Perspective (2017).
Sean Scalmer is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His books on social movements and politics include
Dissent Events (2002),
Activist Wisdom (2006),
Gandhi in the West (2011),
On the Stump (2017), and
Democratic Adventurer (2020).
Christian Wicke is Assistant Professor of Political History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He wrote
Helmut Kohl's Quest for Normality (2015). He recently edited (with Ulf Teichmann) an issue of
Arbeit-Bewegung-Geschichte on the relationship between 'old' and 'new' social movements (2018/III).
Riassunto
This book offers a comparative historical examination of the relations between social movements and collective memory. It brings together the previously disparate fields of Memory Studies and Social Movement Studies, and uses case studies to ground students while offering analytical tools for the reader.
