Feminist Afterlives

Chidgey, Red

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“…and how cultural memory of earlier struggles informs new movements in the present'. The aforementioned link between memory and activism was also approached by other recent works in the European context (Chidgey, 2018;Treré, 2018;Zamponi, 2018).…”

Section: Embodied Practices Of Memorymentioning

confidence: 85%

Fue el estado (‘It was the state’): Embodied practices of memory and the re-writing of Mexico’s genealogy of violence

Zícari

2021

Memory Studies

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In the midst of the activism outburst after the Ayotzinapa crisis, the Mexican collective ‘Rexiste’ wrote the phrase ‘It was the state’ in Mexico City’s main square. I define such action as an embodied practice of memory, which re configurates Mexico’s history of violence. Based on an affective approach, I delve into the kinaesthetic of the performance to show how the action is summoning archived repertoires of Mexican activism post-1968. I first refer to the foundation of human rights committees in the late 70s and their main repertoire of action, hunger strikes, to then consider the funeral re-enactments of the late 1990s after the Aguas Blancas and Acteal massacres. Through this unarchiving I want to analyse how the unresolved past re-emerges in the creation of a non-teleological temporality of state-fostered violence.

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Section: Embodied Practices Of Memorymentioning

confidence: 85%

Fue el estado (‘It was the state’): Embodied practices of memory and the re-writing of Mexico’s genealogy of violence

Zícari

2021

Memory Studies

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“…Much of the scholarship on cultural memory, as Daphi and Zamponi (2019) note, draws from Maurice Halbwachs’ conception of memory “as a collective and social phenomenon” (p. 401). Collective memory studies depart from the assumption that memories are not mirrored representations of the past but are socially and culturally constructed (Chidgey, 2018, 2020; Daphi and Zamponi, 2019; Hoskins, 2009; Merrill et al, 2020; Molden, 2016; Neiger et al, 2011; Reading, 2016; Zelizer, 2004). This scholarly tradition invites us to ask how memories are formed, and the conditions and implications of memory work.…”

Section: Collective Memory and Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this paper, I elaborate on how the Marielle Franco’s Institute functions as a counter-hegemonic agent of memory in Brazil through digital practices that articulate what I call a haunting online presence of Marielle on social media. I rely on the concept of haunting (Gordon, 2008), theorizing on collective mediated memory (Hoskins, 2009; Kitch, 2018; Molden, 2016; Neiger et al, 2011; Tenenboim-Weinblatt, 2013; Zelizer, 2004), and digital memory (Birkner and Donk, 2020; Chidgey, 2018, 2020; Hess, 2007; Martini, 2018; Merrill et al, 2020; Reading, 2016; Smit et al, 2018) to discuss two interrelated processes involved in the construction of a haunting online presence: mediating a resistant specter and mediating “something-to-be-done.” Through a critical rhetorical analysis of the Institute’s YouTube and Instagram accounts, I also explicate how the notion of haunting online presence can be used as a heuristic framework to analyze cases of digital memorialization as culturally, politically, and historically situated practices.…”

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confidence: 99%

Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media

de Carvalho

2024

Media, Culture & Society

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Social media has transformed how we construct collective memory, with increased opportunities for dispersed individuals and groups to participate in collective remembrance. With the ever-changing nature of social media practices, the field of critical memory studies begs for more research on the role of digital media in memory construction. Based on a critical rhetorical analysis of YouTube and Instagram archives, I examine how social media is used to remember Marielle Franco, a Brazilian black queer city councilwoman killed in 2018 by former police officers. Specifically, I argue that two communication strategies – mediating a resistant specter and mediating something-to-be-done – are articulated on social media in the construction of a haunting online presence of Marielle. I further suggest that this digital memorialization is consequential for how Brazil remembers the racial, gendered, and social injustices that inform Brazil’s past, present, and possible future. The analysis contributes to previous literature on cultural memory by articulating the notion of haunting online presence as a heuristic tool to theorize about public mourning, digital memory, and activism.

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“…In a more extensive work, Feminist Afterlifes: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times , Red Chidgey (2018) uses assemblage as an approach and a tool to explore feminist activism and memory.…”

Section: From Mnemonic Objects To Mnemonic Assemblagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The digital turn in memory studies

Mandolessi

2023

Memory Studies

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This article examines the changes experienced by collective memory in the digital era. Contrary to the thesis that digital memory entails a new type of memory, which is radically different from the traditional conceptualization, I argue that the practice of digital memory materializes and implements the theoretical claims made by Memory Studies since the field’s inception – collective memory conceived as a process, mediated and remediated by multiple media, with the participation of dynamic communities that perform rather than represent the past. In the article, I address what I propose are the following four major transformations that collective memory has undergone in the digital era: (1) the new ontology of the digital archive; (2) the shift from narrative as a privileged form of collective memory to the cultural form of the database; (3) the reconfiguration of agency, in which a distributed memory is performed by human and non-human agents in a dynamic entanglement; and (4) the shift from mnemonic objects to mnemonic assemblages, comprising persons, things, artefacts, spaces, discourses, behaviours and expressions in dynamic relatedness.

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Feminist Afterlives

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Fue el estado (‘It was the state’): Embodied practices of memory and the re-writing of Mexico’s genealogy of violence

Fue el estado (‘It was the state’): Embodied practices of memory and the re-writing of Mexico’s genealogy of violence

Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media

The digital turn in memory studies

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