Remembering hope : the cultural afterlife of protest / Ann Rigney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rigney, Ann, author.

Series:

Studies in collective memory.

Oxford scholarship online.

Studies in collective memory

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--History.

Protest movements.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

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. Rigney's long-term approach shows that cultural memory and activism are deeply entwined across generations and reveals how cultural memory work has been used as a form of resistance to historical outcomes and as a tool for kick-starting older campaigns in new contexts. Above all, the book challenges the assumption that grievance rather than active citizenship has always been at the heart of collective memory.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 14, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-778974-9

0-19-778973-0

0-19-778972-2

OCLC:

1532410510