The Routledge Handbook Of Memory Activism / edited by Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg ; with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham.

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English
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
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The Routledge history handbooks
Biographical/​Historical note
Yifat Gutman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York (2012). Her research focuses on memory activism and political change in and after ethnonational conflict. Jenny Wüstenberg is Professor of History and Memory Studies and the Director of the Centre for Public History, Heritage and Memory at Nottingham Trent University. She is Co-Founder and Co-President (2016-2022) of the Memory Studies Association, as well as the Chair of the COST Action CA20105 on Slow Memory (2021-2025).
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"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 Capetown, 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 multi-faceted, 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, policy makers, journalists, and activists alike"-- Provided by publisher.
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  • 1000646173 ((adobe pdf))
  • 1000646297 ((epub))
  • 100312755X ((ebook))
  • 9781000646177 ((adobe pdf))
  • 9781000646290 ((epub))
  • 9781003127550 ((ebook))
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2022012565
OCLC
1315574578
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  • 10.4324/9781003127550
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