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Providing a summary of the main arguments and findings of the book, this chapter sets out a series of propositions for a subset discipline of activist memory studies. In doing so, ‘Assemblage Memories: Walking through Emergent and Restless Methods’ reintroduces earlier memory scholarship that sees memory as both a political practice and an object of study. Taking an autobiographical activist memory as an illustrative example, this chapter documents the assemblage approach developed in the book and demonstrates it in a microcosm.
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Chidgey, R. (2018). Assemblage Memories: Walking Through Emergent and Restless Methods. In: Feminist Afterlives. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98737-8_8
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