Full Description
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.
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 Kolvraa 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
