Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles

If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural scripts for human agency, solidarity, resilience and human kindness.

The most valuable contribution of this book is to remind us of the political significance of remembering and archiving. There are other resources available that give more depth and breadth about past movements, but for activists concerned with strategic campaign planning and movement-building this book makes the case for understanding the importance of cultural memory. This is especially important if we are to learn from nonviolent successes and make relevant archival material available and visible in society. (Rachel Julian, Peace News, Vol. 2590-2591, February-March, 2016)

Autorentext
Bernhard Forchtner, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany Dr Colin Harvey, Kings College, University of London, UK Christoffer Kølvraa, Aarhus University, Denmark Red Chidgey, King's College, London, UK David Torell, King's College London, UK Dr Hart Cohen, University of Western Sydney, Australia Irit Dekel, Humboldt University of Berlin and Bard College Berlin, Germany Michelle Caswell, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Ornit Shani, University of Haifa, Israel Susan C. Pearce, East Carolina University, USA Yifat Gutman, Hebrew University, Israel

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Anna Reading and Tamar Katriel 2. Gandhi's Salt March: Paradoxes and Tensions in the Memory of Nonviolent Struggle in India; Ornit Shani 3. A Modest Reminder: Performing Suffragette Memory in a British Feminist Webzine; Red Chidgey 4. Krieg dem Kriege: The Anti-War Museum in Berlin as a Multilayered Site of Memory; Irit Dekel and Tamar Katriel 5. Film as Cultural Memory: The Struggle for Repatriation and Restitution of Cultural Property in Central Australia; Hart Cohen 6. Remember The Russell Tribunal?; David Torell 7. Peace and Unity: Imagining Europe in the Founding Fathers' House Museums; Bernhard Forchtner and Christoffer Kolvraa 8. Singing for my life: Memory, Nonviolence and the Songs of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp; Anna Reading 9. Who Owns a Movement's Memory? The Case of Poland's Solidarity; Susan C. Pearce 10. Documenting South Asian American Struggles Against Racism: Community Archives in a Post-9/11 World; Michelle Caswell 11. The Wall Must Fall: Memory Activism, Documentary Filmmaking, and the Second Intifada; Tamar Katriel and Yifat Gutman 12. Remembering to Play/Playing to Remember: Transmedial and Intramedial Memory in Games of Nonviolent Struggle; Colin B Harvey