Overview
- Explores the relationship between social movements and collective memories
- Focuses on past and present student movements in Italy and Spain to analyse contemporary representations of a contentious past
- Presents the results of interviews with contemporary student activists, assessing the relationship between public memory and the strategic choices of today’s social movements
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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Table of contents(9 chapters)
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Introduction, Background and Methods
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Memory in Discourse: Representations of the 1960s and 1970s in the Media Forum
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Memory in Action: Mnemonic Practices, Collective Identities and Strategic Choices in Contemporary Student Movements
About this book
This book analyses the relationship between social movements and collective memories: how do social movements participate in the building of public memory? And how does public memory, and in particular the media’s representation of a contentious past, influence strategic choices in contemporary movements? To answer these questions the book draws its focus on the evolution of the representation of specific events in the Italian and Spanish student movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Furthermore, through qualitative interviews to contemporary student activists in both countries, it investigates the role of past waves of contention in shaping the present through the publicly discussed image of the past.
Reviews
“A truly innovative study of the role historical memory plays in social movements. This richly empirical comparative study is path-breaking in its conceptualization and design.” (Ron Eyerman, Yale University)
Authors and Affiliations
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Scuola Normale Superiore, Firenze, Italy
Lorenzo Zamponi
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Movements, Memory and Media
Book Subtitle: Narrative in Action in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements
Authors: Lorenzo Zamponi
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68551-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68550-2Published: 08 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09839-1Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68551-9Published: 26 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 339
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Sociology, Memory Studies, European Politics, Media Sociology