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UNINA9910300015403321 |
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Autore |
Chidgey Red |
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Titolo |
Feminist Afterlives : Assemblage Memory in Activist Times / / by Red Chidgey |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Collana |
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Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, , 2634-6265 |
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Collective memory |
Gender Studies |
Memory Studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Postfeminist Memory Cultures, Late Capitalism and the Organisation of Ghosts -- 3 A Proposition for Remembering Activism: A Toolkit for Assemblage Memory -- 4 The Material of Authorised Protest Pasts -- 5 Embodiment as a Technique of Protest -- 6 Memory Economies of a Feminist Icon -- 7 Remix, Resonance and the New Austerity -- 8 Assemblage Memories: Walking throuhg Emergent and Restless Methods -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book interrogates why feminist memories matter. Feminist Afterlives explores how the images, ideas and feelings of past liberation struggles become freshly available and transmissible. In doing so, Red Chidgey examines how popular feminist memories travel as digital and material resources across protest, heritage, media, commercial and governmental sites, and in connection with the concerns and conditions of the present. Central case studies track repeated invocations to militant suffragettes and the We Can Do It! post-feminist icon over time and space. Assembling interviews, archival research and ethnographic accounts with provocative examples drawn from postfeminist media culture, a UNESCO heritage bid, protest at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and activist remembrance in zines and |
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blogs, this is a broad-ranging study of 'restless' feminist pasts - both real and imagined. Richly researched and argued, this volume offers an original framework of 'assemblage memory' and sets out a new research agenda for the intersections between everyday activism, protest, and memory practices. |
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