Memory and the Language of Contention

Sophie van den Elzen, Ann Rigney (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

608 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004692961 (ISBN)

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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.

How does language shape the memory of activism? And how do memories, of hope or of repression, inflect the language used by social movements in the present day?

This edited volume, featuring international scholars across literary and cultural studies, anthropology, legal studies, and linguistics, shows how memories of activism live in the medium of language. It contends that working with, and working on, the historical resonance of words and linguistic commonplaces is a central feature of political contention.

Dr. Sophie van den Elzen teaches modern literature at Utrecht University and researches cultural memories of activism and language as a medium for social change. She is the author of Slavery in the International Women's Movement, 1832-1914: Memory Work and the Legacy of Abolitionism (CUP, 2025). Ann Rigney is professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University. She directed the ERC-Funded project Remembering Activism (2019-2024) and recently co-edited The Visual Memory of Protest (2023). She is finishing a new book called Remembering Hope.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Mobilizing Memories ; 1
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	636 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
ISBN-13	9789004692961 / 9789004692961
Zustand	Neuware