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Cox, Laurence, Waterman, Peter and Wood, Lesley (2016) Social movement auto/biographies. Interface : a Journal for and about Social Movements, 8 (2). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2009-2431
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Abstract
Walter Benjamin called upon historians to be cognisant of debts and
danger, debts owed to the dead who had struggled and sacrificed and
danger in the present. This historian realises that
even the dead
will not be
safe without historians' active interventi
on, that memory of losses and
sacrifices will be lost or distorted in the interests of the presently powerful,
and most importantly, that memories of past struggles, the flashes seized,
can become inspiration for political movements in the present and futu
re
(Kelly 1998)
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Social movement; auto/biographies; autobiographies; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
| Item ID: | 7745 |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Laurence Cox |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2017 10:21 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Interface : a Journal for and about Social Movements |
| Publisher: | National University of Ireland Maynooth |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/7745 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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