Remembering Social Movements

1 Memory and social movements: an introduction 1

Stefan Berger, Sean Scalmer and Christian Wicke

2 The ascension of âcomfort womenâ in South Korean colonial memory 26

Lauren Richardson

3 The past in the present: memory and Indian womenâs politics 41

Devleena Ghosh and Heather Goodall

4 History as strategy. Imagining universal feminism in the womenâs movement 60

Sophie van den Elzen and Berteke Waaldijk

5 âThe memory of history as a leitmotif for nonviolent resistanceâ â" peaceful protests against nuclear missiles in Mutlangen, 1983â"7 83

Richard Rohrmoser

6 Atomic testing in Australia: memories, mobilizations and mistrust 95

David Lowe

7 âThe FBI Stole My Fiddleâ: song and memory in US radical environmentalism, 1980â"95 113

Iain McIntyre

8 Memory âwithinâ, âofâ and âbyâ urban movements 133

Christian Wicke

9 Memory as a strategy? â" dealing with the past in political proceedings against communists in 1950/60s

West Germany 156

Sarah Langwald

10 âWe believe to have good reason to regard these comrades, who died in March, to be ours.â The remembrance of the M¤rzgefallenen by workersâ organizations during the Weimar Republic 180

Jule Ehms

11 Memory as political intervention: labor movement life narration in Australia, Jack Holloway and

May Brodney 199

Liam Byrne

12 Remembering the movement for eight hours: commemoration and mobilization in Australia 219

Sean Scalmer

13 The memory of trade unionism in Germany 240

Stefan Berger

14 Protest cycles and contentious moments in memory activism: insights from postwar Germany 260

Jenny W¼stenberg

15 Social movements, white and black: memory struggles in the United States South since the Civil War 280

W. Fitzhugh Brundage

16 Afterword: the multiple entanglements of memory and activism 299

Ann Rigney