Remembering Contentious Lives (Hardcover)

Ann Rigney

ISBN 10: 3031734491 / ISBN 13: 9783031734496

Published by Springer International Publishing AG, 2025

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Hardcover. This collection addresses two interrelated questions: How are the lived experiences of contention remembered in the form of auto/biography? How is life writing, as an act of cultural remembrance, used in activism? Building on cutting-edge scholarship on the socio-political potential of narrating lived experience, this volume takes life-writing as a new point of observation on the entanglement between memory and activism.This is an open access book. This collection addresses two interrelated questions: How are the lived experiences of contention remembered in the form of auto/biography? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remembering Contentious Lives (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031734491
• ISBN 13: 9783031734496
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This collection addresses two interrelated questions: How are the lived experiences of contention remembered in the form of auto/biography? How is life writing, as an act of cultural remembrance, used in activism? Building on cutting-edge scholarship on the socio-political potential of narrating lived experience, this volume takes life-writing as a new point of observation on the entanglement between memory and activism.

This is an open access book.

About the Author

Duygu Erbil is affiliate researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON), Utrecht University. She completed her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature at Utrecht University in 2024. Her PhD project analysed the cultural afterlife of Deniz Gezmiş and was part of the project Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (ReAct).

Ann Rigney is professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University and PI of the Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (ReAct). She has published widely in the field of cultural memory studies, including most recently The Visual Memory of Protest (edited with Th. Smits, Amsterdam UP, 2023) and Remembering Hope (forthcoming).

Clara Vlessing is a lecturer at Utrecht University and a postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University, Nijmegen. She completed her doctoral degree at Utrecht University in 2023. Her PhD analysed the cultural afterlives of three women revolutionaries and was part of the project Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (ReAct).