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

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

Autorentext
Lorenzo Zamponi is a Research Fellow in sociology and political science at the Scuola Normale Superiore, in the Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali (Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences) in Italy, where he is part of the COSMOS (Centre on Social Movement Studies) research team. He holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute. His research interests include memory, contentious politics and media analysis.

Inhalt

Part 1: Introduction, Background and Methods .- 1. Introduction .- 2. Memory and Movements: A Long Research Path .- 3. The Student Movements in Italy and Spain and How to Study Their Memories .- Part 2: Memory in Discourse: Representations of the 1960s and 1970s in the Media Forum .- 4. Contentious Memories of the Italian Student Movement: The 'Long 1968' in the Field of Public Memory .- 5. Contentious Memories of the Spanish Student Movement: Representations of the Spanish 1968 in the Public Memory of the Transition .- Part 3: Memory in Action: Mnemonic Practices, Collective Identities and Strategic Choices in Contemporary Student Movements .- 6. Syntax: The Forms of Memory .- 7. Semantics: The Competing Narratives of Student Movement Memories .- 8. Pragmatics: Memory, Identity and Strategy .- 9. Conclusions.