Museums, Archives and Protest Memory

✍ Scribed by Red Chidgey; Joanne Garde-Hansen

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 171
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the emergence of ‘protest memory’ as a powerful contemporary shaper of ideas and practices in culture, media and heritage domains. Directly focused on the role of museum and archive practitioners in protest memory curation, it makes a compelling contribution to our understanding of how social movements and activist experiences are publicly remembered and activated for social and environmental justice.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Praise for Museums, Archives and Protest Memory
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 The Afterlives of Protest
Introduction: The Protest (Memory) Boom
The Afterlives of Protest Research Network
Activism and the Cultural Sector
Conceptualising Protest Memory in the Cultural Sector
Overview of Chapters
Notes
References
2 Museums, Archives and Protest Memory
Introduction
Understanding the Terrain: Protest, Activism and Social Movements
Between the Fragility and Memorability of Protest: Objects, Images and Material Culture
The Media-Memory-Activism Nexus3
Memories of Activism
Memories in Activism
Memory Activism
Between Memory Activism, Museum Activism and Archival Activism
Conclusion
Notes
References
3 Towards a Protest Memory Framework
Introduction
Museums and Archives as Sites of Protest (see Table 3.1, Row 1)
Museums and Archives as Agents of Protest (see Table 3.1, Row 2)
Museums and Archives as Domains of Protest Memory (see Table 3.1, Row 3)
Museums and Archives as Co-Creators of Protest Memory (see Table 3.1, Row 4)
Museums and Archives as Protectors, Carers and Innovators of Protest Memory (see Table 3.1, Row 5)
Conclusion
Notes
References
4 Rapid Response Collecting
Introduction: The Women’s March and Prospective Memory
Social Media, the Bishopsgate Institute and the Decision to Collect
Protest Signs, Preservation and Issues of ‘Dead Memory’ at the People’s History Museum
The Pink Pussyhat: A Contested Design Object for the V&A Museum
Conclusion: Institutional Activism and Feminist Afterlives
Notes
References
5 Activist Memory and the Archive
Introduction: ‘Waters of Forgetfulness’
Still Waters (1992)
The ‘Museum Of…’: Co-Creation of Climate Protest Memory
The Museum of London as Co-Creator (But Not Carer) of Climate Protest Memory
The Artist-Activist as Provocateur of Protest Memory
The Bishopsgate Institute as Carer and Protector of (Most But Not All) Protest Memory
Conclusion: A Slow Protest Memory of Hydrocitizenship
Notes
References
6 Reflections on Precarity and Risk
Notes
References
Index