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OverviewIf 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: A. Reading , T. KatrielPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 4.287kg ISBN: 9781137032713ISBN 10: 1137032715 Pages: 259 Publication Date: 05 June 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. 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 HarveyReviewsThis book makes a significant contribution to memory studies. It offsets the excessive attention paid to trauma and the displacement of memory by looking at how nonviolent struggle and its transmission in cultural memory emphasises questions of human agency, resilience and collective action. These are vital questions and the book addresses them splendidly. - Michael Pickering, Loughborough University, UK This book makes a significant contribution to memory studies. It offsets the excessive attention paid to trauma and the displacement of memory by looking at how nonviolent struggle and its transmission in cultural memory emphasizes questions of human agency, resilience and collective action. These are vital questions and the book addresses them splendidly. - Michael Pickering, Loughborough University, UK Author InformationBernhard 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 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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