Social Movements, Memory and Media Narrative in Action in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements /

• Main Author: Zamponi, Lorenzo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
• Subjects: Political sociology.; Historiography.; Europe-Politics and government.; Mass media.; Communication.; Political Sociology.; Memory Studies.; European Politics.; Media Sociology.

Cultural factors shape the symbolic environment in which contentious politics take place. Among these factors, collective memories are particularly relevant: they can help collective action by providing symbolic material from the past, but at the same time they can constrain people's ability to...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Introduction, Background and Methods
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Memory and Movements: A Long Research Path
• 3. The Student Movements in Italy and Spain and How to Study Their Memories
• Part 2: Memory in Discourse: Representations of the 1960s and 1970s in the Media Forum
• 4. Contentious Memories of the Italian Student Movement: The 'Long 1968' in the Field of Public Memory
• 5. Contentious Memories of the Spanish Student Movement: Representations of the Spanish 1968 in the Public Memory of the Transition
• Part 3: Memory in Action: Mnemonic Practices, Collective Identities and Strategic Choices in Contemporary Student Movements
• 6. Syntax: The Forms of Memory
• 7. Semantics: The Competing Narratives of Student Movement Memories
• 8. Pragmatics: Memory, Identity and Strategy
• 9. Conclusions.