Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism

TY - JOUR

T1 - Activist turns

T2 - The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism

AU - Chidgey, Red

N1 - For publication in a special issue of Memory Studies, “Remembering Activism: Critical perspectives on the memory-activism nexus”, edited by Samuel Merrill and Ann Rigney.

PY - 2024/10/31

Y1 - 2024/10/31

N2 - Is memory studies experiencing an activist turn? What discourses and practices surround such a pronouncement, and what forms of forgetting might such an assertion usher in? This commentary explores recent claim-making around memory studies’ activist turn and seeks to understand its provocations and critiques. It anchors these discourses within a wider constellation of scholar-activism, paying particular attention to citational politics and memory, activist forms of knowledge making, resource distribution, and the politics and precarities of the contemporary university system.

AB - Is memory studies experiencing an activist turn? What discourses and practices surround such a pronouncement, and what forms of forgetting might such an assertion usher in? This commentary explores recent claim-making around memory studies’ activist turn and seeks to understand its provocations and critiques. It anchors these discourses within a wider constellation of scholar-activism, paying particular attention to citational politics and memory, activist forms of knowledge making, resource distribution, and the politics and precarities of the contemporary university system.

U2 - 10.1177/17506980241263246

DO - 10.1177/17506980241263246

M3 - Comment/debate

SN - 1750-6980

VL - 17

JO - Memory Studies

JF - Memory Studies

IS - 5

ER -