Remembering Hope: The Cultural Afterlife of Protest (Studies in Collective Memory)

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence.It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. How are social movements remembered and how does that memory impact later mobilizations?Does the memory of earlier defeats inspire or inhibit civil resistance?How does forgetting figure in these dynamics? In Remembering Hope, Ann Rigney examines the role of storytelling in transferring hope in social transformation from one generation of activists to another.She uses the tools of cultural memory studies to explain how shared narratives about protest are produced using words, images, video, and performance.Referring to a wide range of cultural forms--periodicals, documentaries, archives, photography, but also graffiti and calendars--Rigney argues that storytelling itself intervenes in the present by mobilizing the power of cultural expression to reconnect with t