Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe

Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe

Publications

  • Sophie van den Elzen and Ann Rigney, editors. Memory and the Language of Contention. Brill, 2025. Available open access here.
  • Sophie van den Elzen,  Introduction to Memory and the Language of Contention, pp.1-23. Available open access here.
  • Tashina Blom, “No Gods No Masters: Anarchist mots de mémoire from Titles to T-Shirts,” in Memory and the Language of Contention,  pp. 231-247. Available open access here.
  • Ann Rigney, “Epilogue: Words between Memory and Hope,” in Memory and the Language of Contention, pp.282-289. Available open access here.
  • Ann Rigney, “Memory in Progressive Politics: How the Commune was Recollected in Nuit Debout,” in Alice Mattoni, ed., Handbook of Progressive Politics. Elgar, 2025. pp. 34-51.  ISBN: 978 1 80088 063 4.
  • Duygu Erbil, Ann Rigney, Clara Vlessing, editors. Remembering Contentious Lives. Palgrave Macmillan,  2025. Available open access here.
  • Duygu Erbil, “Life Writing as Solidarity Work in the 1970s Turkish Left,” in Remembering Contentious  Lives, pp. 107-131. Available open access here.
  • Clara Vlessing, “Writing Louise Michel: The Formation and Development of a Mythologised Revolutionary,” in Remembering Contentious Lives, pp.133-154. Available open access here.
  • Special issue of Memory Studies 17.5 (2024): Remembering Activism: Critical Perspectives on the Memory-Activism Nexus. Editorial by Samuel Merrill and Ann Rigney. Available open access here.
  • Sophie van den Elzen, “Solidarity: Memory Work, Periodicals and the Protest Lexicon in the Long 1960s,” Memory Studies 17.5 (2024; special issue on Remembering Activism). Available open access here.
  • Duygu Erbil, “Commodification Anxiety and the Memory of Turkish Revolutionary Deniz Gezmiş,”  Memory Studies 17. 5 (2024; special issue on Remembering Activism). Available open access here.
  • Tashina Blom, “My Body My Choice: The Hostile Appropriation of Feminist Cultural Memory in American Anti-Vaccine Movements,” Memory Studies 17.5 (2024; special issue on Remembering Activism). Available open access here.
  • Ann Rigney, “Prefigurative Remembrance: Archiving as Activist Mnemonic Practice,” Memory Studies 17.5 (2024; special issue on Remembering Activism). Available open access here.
  • Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney, editors. Archiving Activism in the Digital Age. Institute of Network Cultures, 2024. Available open access here.
  • Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney. “Archiving Activism in the Digital Age: Introduction”.  Archiving Activism in the Digital Age. Institute of Network Cultures, 2024, pp. 5-24. Available open access here.
  • Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits. “Introduction.” The Visual Memory of Protest. Amsterdam University Press, 2023, pp. 9-31. EAN: 9789463723275. Available open access here
  • Clara Vlessing, “Scarcity in Visual Memory: Creating a Mural of Sylvia Pankhurst.” The Visual Memory of Protest, edited by Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits, Amsterdam University Press, 2023, pp. 115-132. Available open access here
  • Thomas Smits and Ruben Ros, “Space and Place in Online Visual Memory: The Tank Man in Hong Kong, 2013–2020.” The Visual Memory of Protest, edited by Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits, Amsterdam University Press, 2023, pp. 201–225. EAN: 9789463723275. Available open access here.
  • Duygu Erbil, “Deniz Gezmiş takes to the Streets: From Photograph to Silhouette.” The Visual Memory of Protest, edited by Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits, Amsterdam University Press, 2023, pp. 75-94. Available open access here.
  • Emilia Salvanou, “Μια ατελείωτη ομιλία της 25ης Μαρτίου. Πώς γιόρταζαν οι Λαμπράκηδες την εθνική επέτειο” [An unfinished speech for March 25: How did the Lambrakis Youth celebrate the national anniversary?].” Εθνικές επέτειοι. Μορφές διαχείρισης της μνήμης και της ιστορίας [National anniversaries. Forms of negotiating memory and history], edited by H. Athanassiades and P. Voglis, Alexandreia, 2023, pp. 95-112 (in Greek). Available open access here.
  • Emilia Salvanou, “Ζ: Memory Politics in Youth Activism in the Greek 1960s.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies, vol. 41, no. 2, 2023, pp. 189-212. Available open access here.
  • Clara Vlessing, “Reparative Remembrance: Feminist Mobilizations of Louise Michel, Emma Goldman, and Sylvia Pankhurst.” Histoire Sociale/Social History Special Issue: “Sites of Feminist Memory: Remembering Women’s Suffrage in Europe, the United States, and Australasia”, vol. 56, no. 116, 2023, pp. 417-438. Available open access here.
  • Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits, editors. The Visual Memory of Protest. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. ISBN 9789048555475. Available open access here. Watch the recording of the online book launch here.

  • Ann Rigney, “Decommissioning Monuments, Mobilizing Materialities.” The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism, edited by Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg, Routledge, 2023, pp. 21-27. ISBN 9780367650391. Available open access here.

  • Daniele Salerno and Marit van de Warenburg. “‘Bella ciao’: A Portable Monument for Transnational Activism.” International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, 2023, pp. 164-181. Available open access here.
  • Emilia Salvanou, “Transnational memory in 1960s protest movements: The case of Greece”. Historein, vol 20, no. 2, 2023. Available open access here.
  • Ann Rigney, “Toxic Monuments and Mnemonic Regime Change.” Studies on National Movements (SNM), vol. 9, no. 1, 2022, pp. 7-41. Availabe open access here.
  • Ann Rigney, “Firebrand Folklore: Musical Memory and the Making of Transnational Networks.” Networks, Narratives and Nations: Transcultural Approaches to Cultural Nationalism in Modern Europe and Beyond, edited by M. Brolsma et al., Amsterdam University Press, 2022, pp. 75-83. Available open access here.
  • Emilia Salvanou,“Memory and Protest in the West German Peace Movement of 1960s”, Open Journal of Political Science, vol 12, no. 3, 2022. Available open access here.
  • Duygu Erbil, “The Making of a Young Martyr: Discursive Legacies of the Turkish “Youth Myth” in the Afterlife of Deniz Gezmiş.” Youth and Memory in Europe: Defining the Past, Shaping the Future, edited by F. Krawatzek and N. Friess, De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 113-126. Available open access here.
  • Thomas Smits and Melvin Wevers. “The Agency of Computer Vision Models as Optical Instruments.” Visual Communication, vol. 21, no. 2, 2021, pp. 329–349. DOI: 10.1177/1470357221992097. Available open access here.
  • Thomas Smits, “A network of photographs: The visual public memory of the Dutch Provo movement, 1967–2016.” Memory Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 2021, pp. 184–203. DOI: 10.1177/17506980211037282. Available open access here.
  • Thomas Smits and Ruben Ros. “Does transnational contention lead to transnational memory? The online visual memory of the February 2003 anti-Iraq War protests.” Social Movement Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, 2021, pp. 23-45. Available open access here.
  • Thomas Smits and Ruben Ros. “Dataset belonging to the article ‘Does transnational contention lead to transnational memory? The online visual memory of the February 2003 anti-Iraq War protests’.” Zenodo, 2021. Available open access here.
  • Thomas Smits and Ruben Ros. “Distant reading 940,000 online circulations of 26 iconic photographs.” New Media & Society, 2021. DOI: 10.1177/14614448211049459. Available open access here.
  • Thomas Smits and Ruben Ros. “Dataset and trained models belonging to the article ‘Distant reading patterns of iconicity in 940.000 online circulations of 26 iconic photographs’.” Zenodo, 2020. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4244001. Available open access here.
  • Ann Rigney,  “Afterword: The Multiple Entanglements of Memory and Activism.” Remembering Social Movements: Activism and Memory, edited by S. Berger, S. Scalmer, and C. Wicke, Routledge, 2021, pp. 299-304. ISBN 9780367541552. Available open access here.
  • Sophie Van den Elzen and  Berteke Waaldijk. “History as Strategy: Imagining Universal Feminism in the Women’s Movement.” Remembering Social Movements: Activism and Memory, edited by Stefan Berger, Sean Scalmer and Christian Wicke, Routledge, 2021. Available here.
  • Clara Vlessing, “Campaigns to Remember: Writing in the Afterlives of Sylvia Pankhurst.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2021. Available open access here.
  • Ann Rigney, “Mediations of Outrage: How the Killing of Demonstrators is Remembered.” Social Research, vol. 87, no. 3 (Fall), 2020, pp. 707-733.. Available open access here.