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Memory and the language of contention edited by Sophie van den Elzen, Ann Rigney
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mobilizing memories ; 2667-0690 v. 1
- Mobilizing memories 2667-0690 volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Activism--Personal narratives--History.
- Activism.
- Collective memory--Political aspects--History.
- Collective memory.
- Genre:
- Essays
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden Boston Brill [2025]
- Summary:
- This edited volume shows how memories of activism live in the medium of language and, conversely, how working with the historical resonance of words is a central feature of political contention
- Contents:
- Introduction: Memory and the language of contention / Sophie van den Elzen
- Activist memoirs and the lexicon of contention / Tamar Katriel
- The blessing of tainted memories: witnessing to sexual trauma, language ideology, and activism among pious Jews / Michal Kravel-Tovi
- Scabs, pickets and camaraderie: words and memories of East Midlands coal miners / Natalie Braber
- Performing protest, performing memory: speech act theory and January 6 / Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill
- Reading 'Compañero/a/x' as a contentious keyword in Chile: a Bakhtinian perspective / Nicolás Villarroel, Vic Riveros
- Reclaiming el pueblo: the role of memories of the Unidad Popular in artistic interventions during the Chilean revolt, 2019/20 / Hannah K. Grimmer
- Legislating the historical resonance of boycott in Germany: memory and Staatsräson in the Bundestag's 2019 resolution against BDS / Michiel Bot
- The cultural lives of May 68 slogans: from walls to pages / Zoé Carle
- Contestatory memory work: reading political slogans in the South African communist left / Corinne Sandwith
- No gods no masters: anarchist mots de mémoire from titles to T-shirts / Tashina Blom
- Grammar and its political affordances: the resonance of the middle voice from the Greek crisis decade to 'post-crisis' imaginaries / Maria Boletsi
- Words between memory and hope / Ann Rigney
- Notes:
- Description based on resource, viewed April 7, 2025
- ISBN:
- 9789004692978
- 9004692975
- OCLC:
- 1506477136
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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