Spaces of transmission: Storytelling and remembrance of the 1973 Athens Polytechnic Uprising

Iossifidis, Miranda Jeanne Marie

doi:10.1016/j.ccs.2020.100355

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“…Partially drawing on insights from social movement studies, shared memories have been found to provide an identity within social movements themselves (Daphi, 2017a: 25–27; Pile, 1997). Shared memories might become a vehicle to pass on strategic and political knowledge (Della Porta and Diani, 2020: 47–49) or a form of protest in itself, for example, through public displays of mourning (Iossifidis, 2020: 3). Place holds an important mnemonic role linking past experiences with activist strategies and discourses (Merrill and Lindgren, 2020: 658).…”

Section: Placing Memory: Powerful Meanings Contested Sites and The Re...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Geographers have often understood movement memories as a means to ‘animate contemporary political imaginaries’ (Featherstone, 2005: 265), linking past and present struggles through places of memory. Based on Bloch’s concrete utopianism, Iossifidis (2020) conceptualizes the remembrance of the 1973 Athens Polytechnic Uprising as a space of transmission in which anti-austerity and anti-fascist politics and socially just futures became tangible. Courtheyn’s (2016) ethnography of the San José Peace Community in Colombia outlines how embodied acts of remembrance can rupture capitalist subjectivities while also providing a resource for sustained activism (p. 945).…”

Section: Placing Memory: Powerful Meanings Contested Sites and The Re...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Suffering ought not to be’: Adorno on the dialectics of memory

Kübler

2023

Environment and Planning F

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In recent decades, social and cultural memories have been much discussed in human geography. In line with an increasing interest in the nexus between memory and social justice, this article theoretically investigates the political geographies of remembering and its emancipatory potential. Surveying recent literature on the topic, I argue for a more nuanced consideration of capitalist thought forms as generally hindering remembrance. To pin down this argument, I draw on Theodor W. Adorno’s negative dialectics, stressing the all-encroaching totality of capitalist thought forms while adhering to the hope of overcoming them. While this perspective stresses how capitalist relations render remembrance precarious, it also enables us to conceptualize spontaneous, embodied moments of memory as acts of resistance against the dominance of these capitalist thought forms. Thus, this article introduces negative dialectics as an approach to consider how places of memory might challenge capitalist relations by circumventing the respective thought forms and transforming society through tenderness and solidarity between diverse people.

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