Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

✍ Scribed by Samuel Merrill (editor), Emily Keightley (editor), Priska Daphi (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, it reveals how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, its contributors address mobilizations of mediated remembrance in the USA, Germany, Sweden, Italy, India, Argentina, the UK and Russia.

✦ Table of Contents

Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Digital Memory Work Practices of Social Movements
Social Movements and Cultural Memory
Cultural Memory and Digital Media
Digital Media and Social Movements
The Digital Memory Work Practices of Social Movement
Structure and Contributions
Claims
Circulations
Curations
Afterword
References
Part I: Claims
Chapter 2: Trans Memory as Transmedia Activism
Introduction
Trans Erasure and Trans Memory
Methodology
Contesting Trans Erasure
Crowdfunding Trans Media and Lives
Questioning Trans Memory Productions
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Who Is the Volk? PEGIDA and the Contested Memory of 1989 on Social Media
Introduction
PEGIDA, Social Media and Mobilisation
PEGIDA’s Reputational Shields and Mnemonic Appropriations
The Battle for Wir sind das Volk on Twitter
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Connective Memory Work on Justice for Mike Brown
Introduction
Memory Work: Rethinking a Travelling Concept1
From Collective to Connective Memory Work in Activism
Researching Memory Work on Justice for Mike Brown
Connective Memory Work on Justice for Mike Brown
Networked Commemoration
Memetic Resurrection
Digital Archiving and Curation
Crowd Reconstruction
Rethinking Activist Memory Work in the Age of Social Media
References
Part II: Circulations
Chapter 5: Following The Woman with the Handbag: Mnemonic Context Collapse and the Anti-fascist Activist Appropriation of an Iconic Historical Photograph
Introduction
(Re)contextualising Photographs and Memory in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Follow the Photograph: Tracing and Tracking Objects of Memory in Action
Runesson’s Decisive Moment
Danielsson’s Media Moment
The Photograph’s Digital Remediation and Translation
The Photograph’s Activist Appropriation and Transduction
The Photograph’s Delayed Virality
Conclusion: Overcoming Context Collapse in Activist Memory Work
References
Chapter 6: #ioricordo, Beyond the Genoa G8: Social Practices of Memory Work and the Digital Remembrance of Contentious Pasts in Italy
Introduction
Theoretical Background: Movements, Memory and Social Media
Memories and Movements
Digital Memories and Social Media
Movement Memories in a Social Media Context
Case Study, Data and Methods
Data and Methods
The Genoa G8 and #ioricordo
#ioricordo, Beyond the Genoa G8
Bologna and the Stragismo, bridging memories
The Foibe and Their Commemoration
The Memory of Mafia Victims
Anniversaries and Commemoration
Authors: Digital Memory Activists, Digitally Networked Individuals, Mnemonic Project Activists and Digital Memory Brokers
Content: Narratives, Counter-Narratives and Digital Memory Practices
Conclusions
References
Chapter 7: In Between Old and New, Local and Transnational: Social Movements, Hybrid Media and the Challenges of Making Memories Move
Introduction
Communicative Power in Hybrid Media Systems: Social Movements, Memory Work, Digital Media
Developing a New Transnational Remembrance: Contesting the Forgetting and Localisation of Bhopal
Remembering the ‘Second Disaster’ Online: Restoring Transnational Valency
Agile Localisations Within a ‘Hybrid Media System’
ICJB in Bhopal (India): Engaging Mainstream Media and Wider Publics
Mnemonic Translations Within the Movement: Mobilising Conversational Remembering
BMA: Hybrid Mobilisations Around the 2012 London Olympics
Conclusion
References
Part III: Curations
Chapter 8: Archiving the Repertoire, Performing the Archive: Virtual Iterations of Second-Generation Activism in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
Introduction
The Legacy of Dictatorship: Afterlives of Repression and the Culture of Impunity
Performing Postmemory: The Next Generation Takes the Stage
Memory Activism Displaced: The Escrache as Performative Protest
Continuity and Change in the Escrache: Ritual and Renewal
‘If There’s No Justice, Escraches Continue’
Repertoires of Contention and Condemnation
What Remains, Who Remembers?
The Escrache Beyond the Streets: Virtual Iterations of Performative Protest
Generation YouTube: Open Access Activism?
Revisiting (or Destabilising?) Archive and Repertoire
By Way of Conclusion: Blurring the Repository and Repertoire
References
Chapter 9: How to Curate a ‘Living Archive’: The Restlessness of Activist Time and Labour
Introduction
Living and Cultural Memory
What Can an Assemblage Memory Approach Do?
The 858 Archive of Resistance
The Occupy Wall Street Archives
Women’s March On Archives
Archival Agents: Social Media, Protestors, Archivists, Journalists as Connective Assemblers
What Makes a Living Archive Live?
In Conclusion: Between Archival Suspicions and Collaborations
References
Chapter 10: ‘We Will Not Forget, We Will Not Forgive!’: Alexei Navalny, Youth Protest and the Art of Curating Digital Activism and Memory in Russia
Introduction
Navalny, the ACF and the Digitalisation of Opposition in Russia
Navalny and the ACF’s Digital Memory Work
Navalny’s Curation of Young Protesters
The Youth of Navalny’s Digital Memory Activism
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: Afterword/Afterweb: The Antisocial Memory Assemblage
Preamble
General Introduction
Recentring the Antisocial in Media, Memory and Movements
The Antisocial Memory Assemblage
Next Steps
References
Index