The rhythms of social movement memories: the mobilization of Silvio Meier’s activist remembrance across platforms

ABSTRACT

This article presents a temporal analysis of the activist remembrance of Silvio Meier, a prominent member of Berlin’s radical left scene, who was stabbed to death in 1992. It asks: when has Meier’s activist remembrance occurred and been remediated, with what rhythms, and how has it been influenced by different platforms? To answer these questions, the article draws on the literature dedicated to the interface between social movements and collective and connective memory, and applies Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis approach. Within this approach a diverse set of material is used to visualise the timing of the digital and non-digital remediation and mobilisation of Meier’s remembrance across different platforms of memory including commemorative events, newspapers, websites and social media. Thereafter the various temporalities of use associated with these platforms and how they can influence the mobilisation of remembrance by social movements is discussed using Lefebvre’s concepts of polyrhythmia, arrhythmia, isorhythmia, eurhythmia and with respect to, firstly, a fifteen-year period between 2002 and 2017 and secondly, a fifteen-day period between 15 November and 30 November 2012 around the twentieth anniversary of Meier’s death. The article concludes by introducing another Lefebvrian concept – dressage – in order to consider which rhythms of activist remembrance might most benefit social movements and their goals. Overall, by demonstrating the importance of attending to the when and not only the what, who, where and how of social movement memories and by highlighting the need to consider the temporal influence of the different digital and non-digital platforms that activists use, as well as, by indicating the broader potential of applying rhythmanalysis approaches to instances of activism, the article has broader relevance for the further study of social movements, their use of different media and their mobilization of memory.     

文化研究与感情记忆 ——— “方法日本”的“方法”批判

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规则与资源的重构：村庄记忆变迁中精英行动策略的社会学解读

乡村精英一直是国内外学者研究中国村治制度的切入点,随着中国现代化建设的不断推进,农村社会在经济、政治、文化等个方面都发生了巨大的变迁,对乡村精英的探讨也越来越成为政治学或社会学、管理学等学科讨论的重点和热点话题。以村庄记忆为参照物,探讨乡村精英在村庄记忆这一现代化产物的变迁中行动的策略问题,以精英的行动策略为对象分析和反思中国社会转型的后果是如何在农村社会中得到反映和体现的。     

Secure attachment and social and personality outcomes: The moderating role of emerging adults’ autobiographical memories of parents

Schema-congruent positive autobiographical memories of past experiences with parents, a legacy of secure attachment, may operate jointly with secure attachment to predict social and personality outcomes. The current study examines the moderating role of emerging adults’ autobiographical memories of parents on the relations between maternal and paternal attachment and self-regulation, personal distress, and pathological narcissism. Undergraduates (N = 156, 66.7% female, 53.2% White, M_age = 19.3) completed a battery of measures assessing secure attachment, self-regulation, personal distress, and pathological narcissism (vulnerable and grandiose). Participants were instructed to recall brief autobiographical memories of experiences with their parental figures. Later, they were asked to name the primary emotion associated with each memory. These emotions were coded as positive, negative, or neutral in valence. For the final analysis, a positive emotion index was constructed by subtracting the number of negative memories from the number of positive memories. Regression models simultaneously examining four outcomes (self-regulation, personal distress, and vulnerable and grandiose narcissism) were examined for both female and male parental figures. Interactions between secure attachment and positive memories were only significant for maternal model outcomes. Secure attachment was positively related to self-regulation, and negatively related to personal distress and vulnerable narcissism, when more relative positive memories were recalled. Taken together, this study provides support for the continued influence of secure attachment on social and personality outcomes in emerging adulthood. Further, this influence of secure attachment appears buttressed by readily accessible positive (relative to negative) memories of female attachment figures.     

Echoes from the Past: Intergenerational Memories in Cyprus

The purpose of this article is to describe young people's awareness of their parents’ and grandparents’ stories of the events of 1974 in Cyprus and to evaluate the extent to which they perceive teachers as other key figures in their lives endorsing family accounts of history. The article is based on focus group discussions with 20 Turkish Cypriot and 20 Greek Cypriot teenagers from two schools in Cyprus. The article describes how in some cases, young people appropriate these memories as their own, while in other cases, they acknowledge how the passing of time dilutes the significance of past events and allows some young people to envisage a different collective future.     

触景生情与披文生情——《物色》与《知音》的理论比较

《物色》与《知音》是《文心雕龙》杂论中的重要二篇。《物色》以触景生情为主要内容,《知音》属批评论、以披文生情为主要内容。《物色》到《知音》是触景生情与披文生情的过渡,这两个过程的变化是相反相向的。同时两个过程中创作主体与读者的角色要求、情感、展现与重现中的景物等方面也存在较大差异。     

在城乡的边界处游走与书写——阎志诗歌论

阎志的诗歌写作,早期资源在于对童年记忆的追溯以及对乡村生活的演绎,但这种怀旧美学似乎建立在无法融入城市的现实障碍上。当诗人遭遇了城市生活的残酷后,乡村书写与童年记忆更是加剧了其笔下诗意的张力。与此同时,诗人又不得不直面现实的城市生活,他试图从细节中寻找真相,也在不断地领受与改变中调整自己的写作方向。阎志诗歌中有着浓郁的悲剧色彩,但其所独具的乡愁意识既复杂又丰富,让他在强烈的使命感和广博的延伸性中达至更高远的精神境界。     

后革命时期红色记忆研究路径导论——兼议中观维度党史学研究的可能

红色记忆是中国共产党革命建政的历史产物,也是社会转型期的人民群众的一种政治心理叙事。在革命与后革命两分的前提下,辅以社会学的想像力、民族志的观察力,从日常生活与国家制度的维度管窥红色记忆并进行质性研究,这应该是一种可行的路径。     

历史记忆与身份建构——以雷霆超的《吃碗茶》为例

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论海明威的巴黎情缘

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