[ecrea] New book: "Social Movements, Memory and Media. Narrative in Action in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements"

Available in e-book and hardcover: 
https://www.palgrave.com/it/book/9783319685502


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

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 mobilise by imposing proscriptions and prescriptions.

This book analyses the relationship between social movements and 
collective memories: how do social movements participate in the building 
of public memory? And how does public memory, and in particular the 
media’s representation of a contentious past, influence strategic 
choices in contemporary movements? To answer these questions the book 
draws its focus on the evolution of the representation of specific 
events in the Italian and Spanish student movements of the 1960s and 
1970s. Furthermore, through qualitative interviews to contemporary 
student activists in both countries, it investigates the role of past 
waves of contention in shaping the present through the publicly 
discussed image of the past.

“While a quite popular topic in cultural history, memory has been  
rarely addressed from social movement studies. With its careful 
conceptualization and rich empirical analysis of mnemonic practices 
around transformative protest events in mass media and among movement 
activists, Lorenzo Zamponi’s work gives a fundamental contribution to 
the bridging of memory studies and studies on contentious politics.” 
(Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore)

“A truly innovative study of the role historical memory plays in social 
movements. This richly empirical comparative study is path-breaking in 
its conceptualization and design.” (Ron Eyerman, Yale University)


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