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Author Hajek, Andrea, 1979- author.

Title Negotiating memories of protest in Western Europe : the case of Italy / Andrea Hajek
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
Contents Introduction: Negotiating Memories of Protest -- 1. 'Years of lead'? Political Violence in Perspective -- 2. 'Wonderful years'? Myth, Nostalgia and Possessive Memory -- 3. The Trauma of 1977 -- 4. Mourning and Moral Duty. The Affective Labour of Victims' Families -- 5. Political Uses of the Past. The Official Memory of 1977 -- 6. Rebuilding Group Identities to the Far Left -- 7. Memory Sites: the Negotiation of Protest in the Urban Space -- Conclusion: Blocked in Private Spaces
Summary Negotiating Memories of Protest in Western Europe explores the transmission of memories of European protest movements in the late 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on the specific case of Italy, the book examines the ways in which different memory agents negotiate memories of violence against left-wing activists, perpetrated by representatives of the state. It does so through a discussion of commemorative rituals, memory sites and other forms of 'memory work' performed by various social groups within the local setting of Bologna, where a left-wing student and protester was shot dead by police in 1977. By drawing on this fascinating case study, Andrea Hajek lays bare the dynamic relation between official and unofficial memories of conflict and and explores the challenges of historical research into social movements
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Subject Protest movements -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Student movements -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism and collective memory -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Memorialization -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Social & cultural history -- c 1970 to c 1980 -- Italy.
Demonstrations & protest movements -- c 1970 to c 1980 -- Italy.
Political corruption -- c 1970 to c 1980 -- Italy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
History.
Memorialization
Nationalism and collective memory
Politics and government
Protest movements
Student movements
SUBJECT Italy -- Politics and government -- 1945-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069015
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1976-1994. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069018
Subject Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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