Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles Powerful Times

by Reading, Anna; Katriel, Tamar

• ISBN13: 9781137032713
• ISBN10: 1137032715
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-06-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles: Powerful Times marks a new trajectory in memory studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles. The book highlights the cultural forgetting and memory of Gandhi's Salt March, the suffragette struggle in Britain, the Russell Tribunal, 'House Museums' in Europe, the anti-nuclear campaign at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, Poland's Solidarity movement, cultural repatriation and indigenous Australians, the Anti-War Museum in Berlin, a South Asian community archive, peaceful alternatives in video games and Palestinian activism against the Wall. The chapters explore how memories of nonviolent struggles are mobilized through digital archiving, documentary film-making, video-gaming, and on-the-ground practices such as music, memorial museums, and the building of monuments. By foregrounding an alternative line of memory work whose goal is to commemorate nonviolent struggles in contemporary local, national and global memory cultures, the book opens up new pathways of human hope and agency to the study of cultural memory.

Author Biography

Anna Reading is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at Kings College, University of London, UK. Aged ten she led a school strike; at fifteen she formed part of a human chain; at twenty she co-founded Rape Crisis in York. Her books, plays and teaching tell the stories of human struggles against atrocity, genocide and war.

Tamar Katriel is Professor of Communication and Education, University of Haifa, Israel. She is the author of Talking Straight (1986); Communal Webs (1991); Performing the Past (1997); Dialogic Moments (2004), a Hebrew book collection Keywords (1999) as well as a range of articles in journals and book collections.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Anna Reading and Tamar Katriel
2. Gandhi's Salt March: Paradoxes and Tensions in the Memory of Nonviolent Struggle in India; Ornit Shani
3. A Modest Reminder: Performing Suffragette Memory in a British Feminist Webzine; Red Chidgey
4. Krieg dem Kriege: The Anti-War Museum in Berlin as a Multilayered Site of Memory; Irit Dekel and Tamar Katriel
5. Film as Cultural Memory: The Struggle for Repatriation and Restitution of Cultural Property in Central Australia; Hart Cohen
6. Remember The Russell Tribunal?; David Torell
7. Peace and Unity: Imagining Europe in the Founding Fathers' House Museums; Bernhard Forchtner and Christoffer Kølvraa
8. Singing for my life: Memory, Nonviolence and the Songs of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp; Anna Reading
9. Who Owns a Movement's Memory? The Case of Poland's Solidarity; Susan C. Pearce
10. Documenting South Asian American Struggles Against Racism: Community Archives in a Post-9/11 World; Michelle Caswell
11. The Wall Must Fall: Memory Activism, Documentary Filmmaking, and the Second Intifada; Tamar Katriel and Yifat Gutman
12. Remembering to Play/Playing to Remember: Transmedial and Intramedial Memory in Games of Nonviolent Struggle; Colin B Harvey