A Movement Without Memory: Feminism and Collective Memory in Post-Socialist Germany

Guenther, Katja

doi:10.17813/maiq.17.2.p8334vt163677676

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“…This work and others (e.g. Guenther, 2012) provide a renewed examination of framing from a structural perspective – tying framing back into political and national characteristics.…”

Section: The Framing Perspectivementioning

confidence: 95%

Advances in social movement theory since the global financial crisis

Nulman

Schlembach

2017

European Journal of Social Theory

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The social movement literature in Western Europe and North America has oriented much of its theoretical work towards micro-, meso-, and macro-level examinations of its subject of study but has rarely integrated these levels of analysis. This review article broadly documents the leading theoretical perspectives on social movements, while highlighting the contributions made in recent years with regard to the wave of protests across the globetypified by the Occupy movement and the 'Arab Spring' -and grievances that are relatively novel in qualitative or quantitative form such as austerity, precarity, and a sense of democratic deficiency. While these novel social processes have invigorated the specialized arena of 'social movement studies' and generated a resurgence of work on social movements beyond the field, we argue for the need to interconnect levels of analysis in order to develop a more insightful account of contemporary contentious politics.

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“…This work and others (e.g. Guenther, 2012) provide a renewed examination of framing from a structural perspective – tying framing back into political and national characteristics.…”

Section: The Framing Perspectivementioning

confidence: 95%

Advances in social movement theory since the global financial crisis

Nulman

Schlembach

2017

European Journal of Social Theory

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“…Analysts have highlighted the role of collective memory in shaping group identity, validating lived experiences, and interpreting shared realities over time (Cunningham et al, 2010;Halbwachs, 1992;Heersmink, 2023;Olick, 1999;Olick and Robbins, 1998). Moreover, as we discussed above, the development and maintenance of collective memory is a dynamic and subjective enterprise that can either reinforce or challenge dominant narratives about history (Guenther, 2012;Weedon and Jordan, 2012). The results of our analysis highlight the important role that collective memory plays in cases of environmental exposure and illness, especially in cases where there is a significant time lag between contact with hazards and the emergence of symptoms.…”

Section: Collective Memory and Pesticide Exposures In The Case Of The...mentioning

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Folk art, storytelling, and space: Collective memory and pesticide exposure

Adams,

Saville,

Shriver

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Extant research regarding collective memory has established the importance of examining how socially constructed memories shape group identities, lived experiences, and realities over time. In addition, collective memory scholars have underscored the inextricable and co-shaping linkages between space, place, and collective memory. However, comparatively less is known about how collective memories are constructed and articulated in cases of environmental exposures. We argue that it is important to investigate the ways in which exposed communities preserve their stories and how their collective memories influence efforts to seek redress as well as push for broader social change. We examine a case of historical pesticide exposure and related illnesses and mortality among farmworkers in Central Florida. We ask how exposed communities translate their experiences into a cohesive collective memory, how cultural artifacts preserve their stories in the broader discursive context, and how they utilize various histories as a form of health activism. We draw on data including ten years of farmworker blog entries, in-depth interviews, and media coverage. Our analysis revealed how farmworkers created artifacts representative of their memories of environmental exposures and illnesses, as well as how they translated these experiences into a cohesive collective memory.

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“…Collective memory is in this sense imperative as a component for every social group (Halbwachs, 1980(Halbwachs, , 1992, and thereby constitutes a vital resource for social movement formation and endurance (Farthing & Kohl, 2013;Guenther, 2012). As collective memory construction depends on its public articulation (Neiger et al, 2011, p. 4), attention has been brought to how digital media platforms interplay with collective processes of remembering and forgetting (Hoskins, 2017).…”

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The temporal nexus of collective memory mediation: print and digital media in Brazil’s Landless Movement 1984-2019

Lundström

Sartoretto

2021

Social Movement Studies

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Social movement scholarship has increasingly shown how continuous mobilization depends on collective memory construction. This article sets out to study this formative activity in a changing media landscape. It asks how activists navigate the temporal nexus of collective memory mediation. The empirical focus is on Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), a well-established organization that since the early 1980s has communicated its collective memories on several media platforms. This article also demonstrates, through a corpus analysis of MST's internal newspaper, Jornal Sem Terra , and its Facebook page (2014-2019), how collective memories of rural violence serve various functions in these different media. The empirical study verifies the formative implication of rural violence for Brazil's landless movement, but also unveils notable differences between the newspaper and Facebook in this regard. Whereas Jornal Sem Terra employed a horizontal collective memory construction through contemporary documentation of ongoing and upcoming events, the Facebook posts primarily engaged in the vertical extraction of already established memories. In other words, the print media produced a narrative around collective memories of rural violence, and these memories were re-produced through digital media platforms. These empirical findings implicate that renewed methodologies are needed in future studies of social movements.

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A Movement Without Memory: Feminism and Collective Memory in Post-Socialist Germany

Cited by 7 publications

References 48 publications

Advances in social movement theory since the global financial crisis

Advances in social movement theory since the global financial crisis

Folk art, storytelling, and space: Collective memory and pesticide exposure

The temporal nexus of collective memory mediation: print and digital media in Brazil’s Landless Movement 1984-2019

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