The Visual Memory of Protest

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2023

The Visual Memory of Protest

Edited by: Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits

Volume 27 in the series Protest and Social Movements

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048555475

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About this book

Social movements are not only remembered in personal experience, but also through cultural carriers that shape how later movements see themselves and are seen by others. The present collection zooms in on the role of photography in this memory-activism nexus. How do iconographic conventions shape images of protest? Why do some images keep movements in the public eye, while others are quickly forgotten? What role do images play in linking different protests, movements, and generations of activists? Have the affordances of digital media made it easier for activists to use images in their memory politics, or has the digital production and massive online exchange of images made it harder to identify and remember a movement via a single powerful image? Bringing together experts in visual culture, cultural memory, social movements, and digital humanities, this collection presents new empirical, theoretical, and methodological insights into the visual memory of protest.

Author / Editor information

Rigney Ann :

Ann Rigney is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. She has published widely on theories of cultural memory and on memory cultures in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her books include The Afterlives of Walter Scott (OUP, 2021) and Transnational Memory (co-edited with C. De Cesari, De Gruyter, 2014). She is Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (ReAct) (2019–2024).Smits Thomas :

Thomas Smits is a post-doc researcher at the University of Antwerp. A historian with an interest in visual culture and computer-assisted methodologies, he is author of the prize-winning The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News, 1842-1870 (Routledge, 2020). Between 2019-2021, he worked as a post-doc researcher for the Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (ReAct) project. Recent work has been published in New Media and Society, Memory Studies, Visual Communication and Social Movement Studies.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
The Visual Memory of Protest: Introduction Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits Open Access Download PDF	9
Producing Memorable Images
1 Photojournalism, the World Press Photo Awards , and the Visual Memory of Protest Marco Solaroli Open Access Download PDF	35
2 The Photographs of Nair Benedicto and the Memory of Protest in Brazil Erika Zerwes Open Access Download PDF	57
3 Deniz Gezmiş Takes to the Streets: From Photograph to Silhouette Duygu Erbil Open Access Download PDF	75
Reproduction and Remediation
4 Photography, Memory, and Women in May ’68 Antigoni Memou Open Access Download PDF	97
5 Scarcity in Visual Memory: Creating a Mural of Sylvia Pankhurst Clara Vlessing Open Access Download PDF	115
6 Memory, Iconicity, and Virality in Action: Exploring Protest Photos Online Samuel Merrill Open Access Download PDF	133
Mobilizing Visual Memory
7 Visual Memory in Grassroots Mobilizations : The Case of the Anti- Corruption Movement of 2011 in India Alice Mattoni and Anwesha Chakraborty Open Access Download PDF	159
8 Visual Activism in Protests against Disappearances : The Photo-Portraits of the 43 Ayotzinapa Students Sophie Dufays Open Access Download PDF	181
9 Space and Place in Online Visual Memory : The Tank Man in Hong Kong, 2013–2020 Thomas Smits and Ruben Ros Open Access Download PDF	201
List of Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	225
Index Open Access Download PDF	229

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 32
Keywords: activism; protest; cultural memory; visual representation

eBook

Published: August 1, 2023
ISBN: 9789048555475