Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Anna Reading, Tamar Katriel

   Pages 1-31

3. Gandhi’s Salt March: Paradoxes and Tensions in the Memory of Nonviolent Struggle in India

   • Ornit Shani

   Pages 32-51

4. ‘A Modest Reminder’: Performing Suffragette Memory in a British Feminist Webzine

   • Red Chidgey

   Pages 52-70

5. Krieg dem Kriege: The Anti-War Museum in Berlin as a Multilayered Site of Memory

   • Irit Dekel, Tamar Katriel

   Pages 71-90

6. Film as Cultural Memory: The Struggle for Repatriation and Restitution of Cultural Property in Central Australia

   • Hart Cohen

   Pages 91-110

7. Remember the Russell Tribunal?

   • David Torell

   Pages 111-127

8. Peace and Unity: Imagining Europe in the Founding Fathers’ House Museums

   • Bernhard Forchtner, Christoffer Kølvraa

   Pages 128-146

9. Singing for My Life: Memory, Nonviolence and the Songs of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp

   • Anna Reading

   Pages 147-165

10. Who Owns a Movement’s Memory? The Case of Poland’s Solidarity

    • Susan C. Pearce

    Pages 166-187

11. Documenting South Asian American Struggles against Racism: Community Archives in a Post-9/11 World

    • Michelle Caswell

    Pages 188-204

12. The Wall Must Fall: Memory Activism, Documentary Filmmaking and the Second Intifada

    • Tamar Katriel, Yifat Gutman

    Pages 205-225

13. Remembering to Play/Playing to Remember: Transmedial and Intramedial Memory in Games of Nonviolent Struggle

    • Colin B. Harvey

    Pages 226-244

14. Back Matter

    Pages 245-247

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If 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.

• cultural memory
• nonviolent struggle
• peace movement
• Greenham Common
• women's movement
• anti-nuclear movement
• feminism
• anti-colonialism
• cultural repatriation
• aboriginal memory
• indigenous activism
• suffragettes
• digital activism
• archives
• Solidarity
• Poland
• Palestinian activism
• Gandhi
• anti-war museums
• alternative videogames
• Cultural Memory
• film
• memory
• Transmedial
• violence

“The most valuable contribution of this book is to remind us of the political significance of remembering and archiving. … There are other resources available that give more depth and breadth about past movements, but for activists concerned with strategic campaign planning and movement-building this book makes the case for understanding the importance of cultural memory. This is especially important if we are to learn from nonviolent successes and make relevant archival material available and visible in society.” (Rachel Julian, Peace News, Vol. 2590-2591, February-March, 2016)

"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 emphasises questions of human agency, resilience and collective action. These are vital questions and the book addresses them splendidly." - Michael Pickering, Loughborough University, UK

• King’s College, University of London, UK

  Anna Reading

• University of Haifa, Israel

  Tamar Katriel

Bernhard 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

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