Remembering Hope : The Cultural Afterlife of Protest

• Autore: Rigney Ann
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene -- Memory Studies Beyond "Never Again -- Hope as a Practice of Possibilities -- The Memory-Activism Nexus -- Cultural Memory Work -- . . . With Activism-Specific Variations -- The Many Returns of the Paris Commune -- Scope and Outline -- 1 Memory in Activism: The Commonweal, 1885-1894 -- Marx on the Spirits of the Past -- A Radical Hub: Between Socialism and Anarchism -- Memory Work Through Print -- Historical Narratives and Metahistorical Frames -- Poetry and Affective Recycling -- Memory Work Through Commemoration -- Narrativizing the Commune -- Celebrating the Chicago Martyrs -- Shifting Memoryscapes -- 2 Marking Time with Radical Calendars -- The Power of an Anniversary -- Scheduling Remembrance -- Resetting the Clock in the French Revolution -- Revolutionary Calendars: The Persistence of a Genre -- Pocket Agendas: Micropolitics in the Interval -- The Contentious Potential of Commemoration -- 3 Mediations of Outrage: Remembering as Nonviolent Resistance -- The Salience of Unlawful Killings -- Mnemonic Jiu-Jitsu -- Narrative Schemata, Narrative Metonyms -- Differential Memorability -- Bloody Sundays -- Melodramatic Reversals -- Civic Martyrdom in the Present -- Witnessing: The Face of Opposition -- The Stories That Get Away -- 4 The Agency of the Aesthetic: Keeping the Commune Alive -- Vive la Commune": in Nuit Debout (2016) -- Mediation: Shorthand and Longhand -- Martyrs of the Commune: Seeing Red -- The Centenary in a Flea Market (1971) -- The Power of Aesthetics -- Storytelling That Resists Outcomes -- The New Babylon (1929) -- Memory Work as a Practice of Possibilities -- 5 Toppling Monuments: End or Means? -- Down with the Vendme Column (1871) -- Memory Activism -- X Must Fall, but Why?. ; The Cultural Dynamics of Un-Forgetting -- How Monuments Become Toxic -- Erected and Rejected by the Citizens of Bristol -- The Limits of Memory Activism -- 6 Activist Archiving as Prefigurative Practice -- Communards Posing for Posterity (1871) -- Archiving as Activist Memory Work -- A Changing Praxis -- Toward Living Archives -- Archives from the Squares (2011-2016) -- Temporal Rollovers: Between Prospective and Retrospective -- Prefiguration and the Storing of Dreams -- From Impact to Cultural Afterlife -- 7 Memory Work in Climate Activism -- The Commune Meets COP21 -- Memory Studies in the Face of Ecological Collapse -- Climate Activism: A Shifting Assemblage -- Affirmative Memoryscapes -- Cultural Memory as Renewable Resource -- Storytelling in Mobilization -- Documentary Film as Active Witness -- Living Among the Trees -- Hambi (2019) -- Small Wins, Big Stakes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Remembering Hope, Ann Rigney examines the role of storytelling in transferring hope in social transformation from one generation of activists to another.She uses the tools of cultural memory studies to explain how shared narratives about protest are produced using words, images, video, and performance.
• Titolo autorizzato: Remembering Hope
• ISBN: 0-19-778974-9; 0-19-778973-0; 0-19-778972-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911042725903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Collective Memory Series