The Cultural Afterlives of Louise Michel, Emma Goldman and Sylvia Pankhurst By Clara Vlessing. Remembering Revolutionary Women considers the afterlives of individual revolutionary women and proposes that to understand how they are remembered requires a focus on the active role of remembering subjects and the groups they form; not only asking how memory persists but also why – what motivates…

Memory Work and the Legacy of Abolitionism By Sophie van den Elzen. In this book, Sophie van den Elzen shows how advocates for women’s rights, in the absence of their ‘own’ history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model. Through a detailed analysis of a wide range of sources produced over the…

By Ann Rigney. How are social movements remembered and how does that memory impact later mobilizations? Does the memory of earlier defeats inspire or inhibit civil resistance? How does forgetting figure in these dynamics? In Remembering Hope, Ann Rigney examines the role of storytelling in transferring hope in social transformation from one generation of activists to…

Edited by Reindert Dhondt, Monica Jansen, and Maria Bonaria Urban. This volume brings together leading international experts in politics, discourse, memory, and culture to examine the complex entanglements of populism(s) and fascism(s) in political thought and cultural productions. The starting point is Argentine historian Federico Finchelstein’s assertion that the dynamics of transnational fascism and populist…

Edited by Lorena de Vita and Constantin Goschler. This edited volume offers a new interpretation of the historically momentous 1952 Wassenaar negotiations between representatives of the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, and the Jewish Claims Conference to negotiate reparations, compensation, and restitution in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Wassenaar 1952 marked the first time that…