Memory StudiesPub Date : 2024-10-09eCollection Date: 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980241262390
Samuel Merrill, Ann Rigney
{"title":"Remembering activism: Means and ends.","authors":"Samuel Merrill, Ann Rigney","doi":"10.1177/17506980241262390","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17506980241262390","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This editorial introduces the 12 articles collected in this special issue on <i>Remembering Activism: Explorations in the memory-activism nexu</i>s. It frames the articles within current debates in the field of memory studies and social movement studies on the entanglements between memory work, on the one hand, and activism directed towards social transformation, on the other. In particular, it highlights the ways in which the memory of earlier activism is mobilised within later movements; in the process, it also identifies various forms of activist memory work where remembrance is an integral part of the activist repertoire and one of the means used to achieve political ends.</p>","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"17 5","pages":"997-1003"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11486545/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142485978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2024-10-09eCollection Date: 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980241277517
Duygu Erbil
{"title":"Commodification anxiety and the memory of Turkish revolutionary Deniz Gezmiş.","authors":"Duygu Erbil","doi":"10.1177/17506980241277517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241277517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the impact of commodification on the memory-activism nexus in relation to the cultural afterlife of Deniz Gezmiş. It reframes discussions of the 'commodification' of the revolutionary in terms of 'celebrification' and examines why this process generates social unease in Turkey. It shows that this anxiety emerges from the perception that once memory is brought into the circuit of exchange-value, it risks losing its use-value in activism. Cultural memory is indeed becoming increasingly mediated by market relations. Yet, this article calls attention to activist remembrance which occurs within the interstices of capitalist property relations and is therefore not necessarily <i>dependent</i> on the market. As such, it supports a shift from the 'passive consumer' paradigm to the recognition of the political and narrative agency of remembering subjects, demonstrating that people often contest processes of commodification, especially in the context of anti-capitalist activism.</p>","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"17 5","pages":"1039-1055"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11481043/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142485977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2024-10-09eCollection Date: 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980241262391
Tashina Blom
{"title":"My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements.","authors":"Tashina Blom","doi":"10.1177/17506980241262391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241262391","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article discusses how the reproductive rights slogan 'my body my choice' - which functions as a carrier of feminist cultural memory - was weaponised when it gained traction in anti-vaccine movements that appropriated it. During the global Covid-19 pandemic, transnationally coordinated groups associated with the far right and characterised by nationalist and pro-life values started using the protest slogan to politicise their resistance to local lockdown restrictions and vaccine and mask mandates. The article shows that their use of the slogan was a hostile form of mnemonic appropriation and analyses the discursive mechanisms used to discredit the reproductive rights movement. It demonstrates that when slogans become carriers of cultural memory, they can be used in claim-making by movements on opposing sides of the political spectrum. It concludes that protest memories can be used politically both in the advancement of social movement causes as well as in the backlash against those causes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"17 5","pages":"1089-1104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11481044/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2024-10-09eCollection Date: 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980241263237
Sophie van den Elzen
{"title":"Solidarity: Memory work, periodicals and the protest lexicon in the long 1960s.","authors":"Sophie van den Elzen","doi":"10.1177/17506980241263237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241263237","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the lexical memory work performed by the British New Left as it differentiated itself from the organised labour movement post-1956. It argues that activists use memory to reframe the meaning of keywords in the 'protest lexicon', and that this is an important, though usually implicit, activist cultural practice. Based on previous work in conceptual history and cognitive science, it begins by situating lexical memory work as an activity on the border between narrative historical memory, semantic memory and implicit collective memory. It then discusses the resignification of the word <i>solidarity</i> during the long 1960s, when lexical work was a key feature of the New Left's apostasy from traditional Marxism. Finally, it examines the case of the British heterodox Marxist journal, <i>Solidarity</i>, outlining how it intervened in the protest lexicon by wrenching free the keyword <i>solidarity</i> from previous meanings, changing its historical referent and, ultimately, resignifying it.</p>","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"17 5","pages":"1073-1088"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11481006/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142485979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-29DOI: 10.1177/17506980231219586
Valentina Infante Batiste
{"title":"Pro-dictatorship memorialization in democratic Chile (1990–2020): How is it maintained?","authors":"Valentina Infante Batiste","doi":"10.1177/17506980231219586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231219586","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the combinations of conditions that explain the maintenance of pro-dictatorship memorialization in democratic Chile, where various pro-dictatorship memory sites, memorials, squares, and street names still positively commemorate the military dictatorship or associated elements (1973–1990). The study used four main explanatory factors and subjected them to a Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The procedure revealed that, in Chile, pro-dictatorship memory sites are maintained through two main paths. On one hand, “Walls” (veto players) block elimination demands and guarantee the pro-dictatorship sites’ maintenance. On the other hand, it is the combination of “Silence” (absence of human rights organizations denouncing the site) and “Local and/or Institutional Support” (protection granted by local communities or state agencies) that explain the maintenance of pro-dictatorship memorialization. These results reflect a unique sociological attempt to understand the phenomenon of pro-dictatorship legacies and their permanence in democracy.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"143 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139146258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-29DOI: 10.1177/17506980231219588
Philip McDermott
{"title":"Migrants, transcultural memory and World War I commemoration in post-conflict Northern Ireland","authors":"Philip McDermott","doi":"10.1177/17506980231219588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231219588","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores a community memory project on World War I led by first-generation migrants living in Northern Ireland. As a location recovering from 30 years of political violence, debates on commemoration are frequently reduced to the bi-partisan lens of Irish nationalism or British unionism. World War I is one episode often interpreted through this exclusivist framework. Recent immigration, however, raises questions as to how those who are neither nationalist nor unionist can partake in public memory debates. Drawing on the project’s experiences, I argue that incorporating migrants’ worldviews on the past can elucidate important transcultural analysis and positively aid in reframing simplistic ethno-national interpretations. Transcultural methods can illuminate cross-cultural themes and explicate differences and similarities across multiple groups rather than just two historically divided communities. Thus, transcultural approaches offer a novel means of generating holistic dialogue on memory which has transformative potential for a society transitioning from conflict to peace.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"230 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139145552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-29DOI: 10.1177/17506980231219596
William N Holden
{"title":"Gibsland, Louisiana’s memoryscape of Bonnie and Clyde: Putting the past in the present","authors":"William N Holden","doi":"10.1177/17506980231219596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231219596","url":null,"abstract":"A memoryscape is a place where memories are anchored in space. One cannot travel back in time to when an event occurred, but one can travel in space to where an event occurred. On 23 May 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed near Gibsland, Louisiana, by a posse of law enforcement officers. There is a monument at the ambush’s location, and since 1993, there has been the Authentic Bonnie and Clyde Festival commemorating the ambush and culminating with its re-enactment. The re-enactment demonstrates putting the past into the present, and while watching it, one feels being taken back in time to when the ambush occurred and experiences living history. The ambush’s re-enactment commemorates not only the end of Bonnie and Clyde’s crime wave but also the beginning of the end of the Public Enemy Era.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"108 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139146976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-27DOI: 10.1177/17506980231219585
Magdalena Zolkos
{"title":"Colonial imagery of ‘Arctic hysteria’ and its resignification in Pia Arke’s work of counter-memory","authors":"Magdalena Zolkos","doi":"10.1177/17506980231219585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231219585","url":null,"abstract":"The figure of the ‘Arctic hysteric’ emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the discourses of polar explorations and Arctic colonisation as part of photographic and narrative archive of Westerners’ encounter with Greenlandic populations. This racialised and gendered trope made a mark on the European collective memory of Arctic explorations, solidifying an image of native Greenlanders as infantile, frail and in need of protection from the deleterious effects of civilisation. As such, post-colonial scholars have suggested that ‘Arctic hysteria’ cannot be regarded as a solely psychological diagnostic, but needs to be historicised in the context of colonisation and the social disruptions and hardship it brought about for the Inuit. This article, first, undertakes an analysis of the photographic figurations of ‘Arctic hysteria’ to investigate their place in the collective memories of polar explorations, including erasing the role of Indigenous people in these explorations, and, more broadly, construing imaginary geography of the Arctic as an uninhabited and empty place, a canvas for colonial projections, rather than a native homeland. Next, it focuses on artistic resignifications of ‘Arctic hysteria’ in the work of Greenlandic-Danish artist, Pia Arke, and argues that these resignifications are an example of a decolonial project of counter-memory of the Arctic, which is based on a refusal of regarding colonisation as past. Tracing coloniality and its effects in the domains of the body, affect and intimacy, Arke explores the possibilities of creating a shared and relational Arctic memory.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"95 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139153254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231204204
Jessica K Young
{"title":"Memory studies on the frontlines of the culture wars","authors":"Jessica K Young","doi":"10.1177/17506980231204204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231204204","url":null,"abstract":"On 6 January 2023, New College of Florida, a small public liberal arts college, made headlines when it was announced that prominent figures in the American culture wars were appointed to its board of trustees in an effort to turn this progressive institution into a test bed for right-wing educational reform. This pedagogical reflection examines how the culture wars enact illiberal legislative and curricular reforms that attempt do more than censor difficult histories, they seek to keep the traumatic past in the past. Teaching under increasingly precarious conditions, I argue that it is more important than ever to connect history to the present in our classrooms and offer insights into how a pedagogy of vulnerability might lead to reconciliation despite the right’s efforts to foment division and polarization.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" 1283","pages":"1702 - 1708"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138610340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231213578a
Sharon D. Raynor
{"title":"Book reviews: Return to Vietnam: An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys Mia Martin Hobbs","authors":"Sharon D. Raynor","doi":"10.1177/17506980231213578a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231213578a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" 11","pages":"1713 - 1716"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138617741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}