Special Issue “Remembering Activism: Explorations in the memory-activism nexus”

We are happy to announce the publication “Remembering Activism: Explorations in the memory-activism nexus,” the October 2024 special issue of the SAGE Memory Studies Journal (17:5).

The special issue contains an editorial, twelve research articles and a closing commentary from an interdisciplinary team of authors that together discuss an array of case studies covering diverse contemporary and historical activist causes from across the political spectrum (from climate rebels to anti-vaxxers), and with ties to different communities (from diaspora groups to occupiers) and different generations (from 68 student protestors to those of Gen Z). These publications also reveal the influence that several other actors besides activists have within the memory-activism. Whether these be police or security agencies, market actors, cultural forms and media affordances, or the algorithms that influence the workings of social media platforms and databases, it is clear that activist memory work operates in a complex field of different forces.

To read the special issue please visit: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17506980241262390

The special issue was co-edited by Samuel Merrill and Ann Rigney as part of a collaboration between Utrecht University’s ReAct Project (www.rememberingactivism.eu) and Umeå University’s Department of Sociology and Centre for Digital Social Research (https://www.digsum.org/).

Besides the editorial by Samuel Merrill and Ann Rigney, it includes essays by ReAct members:

Tashina Blom: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17506980241262391

Duygu Erbil: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17506980241277517

Ann Rigney : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17506980241262182

Sophie van den Elzen : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17506980241263237