Samuel Merrill
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Social movements are not only remembered in personal experience, but also through cultural carriers that shape how later movements see themselves and are seen by others. The present collection zooms in on the role of photography in this memory-activism nexus. How do iconographic conventions shape images of protest? Why do some images keep movements in the public eye, while others are quickly forgotten? What role do images play in linking different...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization provides an accessible overview of cultural memory studies, a field substantially shaped by Ann Rigney. In more than sixty short chapters, leading and emerging scholars in the field present key concepts for the study of cultural memory - from 'divided narratives' to 'the platformization of memory' and 'the memory of activism'. The volume includes voices from literary studies, media studies, history, sociology, political...