Feminist Afterlives: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times

by Red Chidgey

Overview

This book interrogates why feminist memories matter. Feminist Afterlives explores how the images, ideas and feelings of past liberation struggles become freshly available and transmissible. In doing so, Red Chidgey examines how popular feminist memories travel as digital and material resources across protest, heritage, media, commercial and governmental sites, and in connection with the concerns and conditions of the present.  Central case studies track repeated invocations to militant suffragettes and the We Can Do It! post-feminist icon over time and space. Assembling interviews, archival research and ethnographic accounts with provocative examples drawn from postfeminist media culture, a UNESCO heritage bid, protest at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and activist remembrance in zines and blogs, this is a broad-ranging study of ‘restless’ feminist pasts – both real and imagined. Richly researched and argued, this volume offers an original framework of ‘assemblage memory’ and sets out a new research agenda for the intersections between everyday activism, protest, and memory practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319987378
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	11/19/2018
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Red Chidgey is Lecturer in Gender and Media at King’s College London, UK. She is co-founder of the Protest Memory Research Network. 

Table of Contents

List of Figures.- Acknowledgements.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Postfeminist Memory Cultures, Late Capitalism and the Organisation of Ghosts.- 3 A Proposition for Remembering Activism: A Toolkit for Assemblage Memory.- 4 The Material of Authorised Protest Pasts.- 5 Embodiment as a Technique of Protest.- 6 Memory Economies of a Feminist Icon.- 7 Remix, Resonance and the New Austerity.- 8 Assemblage Memories: Walking throuhg Emergent and Restless Methods.- Appendix.- Bibliography.- Sources.- Index.

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From the Publisher

“Feminist Afterlives skillfully draws together feminist media studies and memory studies to ask compelling questions about how feminist memories travel across mediated cultures. Drawing on impressive empirical research that took her to archives, zine fairs, and movie theatres, Chidgey re-centers feminist memories as crucial to contemporary feminisms, affirming their power to generate social action and reminding us of the complex histories that inform today’s gender politics.” (Jessalynn Keller, University of Calgary, Canada)