Wartość pamięci i mnemoniczne struktury możliwości. Uwarunkowania pamięci zbiorowej w badaniach polityki kontestacji
The value of memory and mnemonic structures of possibilities. The determinants of collective memory in research into the policy of contestation

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyse the conditions that have enabled effective diffusion of the category of collective memory into the field of social movement studies. This primarily concerns the evolution of ways to theorise the phenomenon of contestation policy which has gradually began to take into account the cultural dimen- sion of social movements, including the practice of assigning meanings that refer to the past. The paper also presents two theoretical-methodological proposals for combining the category of collective memory and studies of contestation policy, namely the concept of the mnemonic ability of the US gay movement and the concept of mnemonic structures of possibilities.

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