The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism - Paperback

by Yifat Gutman (Editor), Jenny W?stenberg (Editor)

This handbook is the first systematic effort to map the fast-growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies.

Author Biography

Yifat Gutman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York (2012). Her research focuses on memory activism and political change in and after ethnonational conflict.

Jenny W?stenberg is Professor of History and Memory Studies and the Director of the Centre for Public History, Heritage and Memory at Nottingham Trent University. She is Co-Founder and Co-President (2016-2022) of the Memory Studies Association, as well as the Chair of the COST Action CA20105 on Slow Memory (2021-2025).