Afterlives of Protest: The Protest Memory Research Network

这是一个特别及时的时刻，来研究抗议记忆如何作为知识、公民和创造力的场所，为广泛的感兴趣的各方。我们生活在一个动荡的时代，主流规范发生了明显的变化，人们对传统政治和专业知识产生了强烈的不信任。我们也正在经历抗议性质的转变，抗议变得越来越个性化，但也越来越普遍和调解。如何记住、恢复和回收抗议活动，以及由谁来记住抗议活动，是值得探索的关键问题。通过唤起“抗议的来世”，我们对抗议的时间性和空间性的扩展感兴趣。这不仅包括对发生在公共领域的高度抵抗时刻的检查，还包括对日常生活中激进过去的平庸表达，以及与社会运动相关的记忆如何在一系列创造性和媒体环境中循环。学者、遗产管理者、艺术家和活动家/活动家之间的讨论和知识交流活动对网络的工作至关重要，因为需要多个利益相关者的观点来理解抗议的创造性和文化价值，以及如何在公开和私下管理抗议的多样性和“风险”遗产。为了实现这些目标，我们的网络将：确定并连接新的理论、概念和方法框架，以探索作为跨学科和（亚/跨）国家研究对象的抗议记忆。抗议记忆是如何被理解的？通过识别作为抗议记忆的保管人、策展人和传播者的社会实践、文化/遗产产业和组织行动者，绘制抗议记忆移动的方式（空间上、时间上、媒介上）。抗议记忆在哪里停止和去？通过分享研究和实践来理解抗议的可记忆性，这些研究和实践体现了抗议作为创造力、讲故事和表演的情感和物质动态。为什么有些抗议的记忆不会被遗忘？探索抗议记忆及其传播作为一种社会学习的形式，了解过去的抵抗实践，探索我们如何利用这些来建立非正式和正式的抗议知识。我们的想法是，深刻的、时间丰富的、具体的抗议实践可以也应该被分享、具体化和动员起来，以重新想象抵抗。我们能从抗议记忆中学到什么？

This is a particularly timely moment to examine how protest memory might act as a site of knowledge, citizenship and creativity for a wide range of interested parties. We live in times of upheaval, with clear shifts in the prevailing norms and a strong distrust in traditional politics and expertise. We are also experiencing transformations in the nature of protest, which is becoming increasingly individualised and yet more pervasive and mediated. How protest is remembered, recovered and recycled, and by whom, is critical to explore. By evoking the 'afterlives of protest', we are interested in the expanded temporalities and spatialities of protest. This includes the examination of not just heightened moments of resistance taking place in the public sphere, but also banal articulations of radical pasts in the everyday and how memories associated with social movements circulate in a range of creative and medial contexts.Discussion and knowledge exchange activities between academics, heritage managers, artists and activists/campaigners are vital to the work of the network, as multiple stakeholder perspectives are needed to understand the creative and cultural value of protest, and how diverse and 'risky' legacies of protest can be managed publicly and privately. To achieve these objectives, our network will:1. Identify and connect new theoretical, conceptual and methodological frameworks for exploring protest memory as an inter-disciplinary and (sub-/trans-) national object of study. How is protest memory understood?2. Chart the ways in which protest memories move (spatially, temporally, medially) by identifying the social practices, cultural/heritage industries and organisational actors that are the custodians, curators and circulators of protest memory. Where does protest memory stop and go?3. Understand the memorability of protest through sharing research and practice on the embodied, affective and material dynamics of protest as creativity, storytelling, and performance. Why are some protest memories not forgotten?4. Explore protest memory and its transmission as a form of social learning about past practices of resistance to explore how we might draw on these to build both informal and formal protest knowledge. Our idea here is that the deep, time-rich and embodied practices of protest can and should be shared, materialised and mobilised for re-imagining resistance. What can we learn from protest memory?