On protest and memory
On protest and memory
Author(s): Nicholas MichelsenSubject(s): Civil Society, Social history, Editorial, Sociology of Politics, Geopolitics, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: New Perspectives; protests; memory; societal critique; politics; rising populism; geopolitical tensions; Europe; editorial;
Summary/Abstract: The Editorial team welcomes you to the September 2021 issue of New Perspectives. The relationship between protest and memory runs through this issue. All forms of societal critique treat the past and present as the ‘antechamber’ to what may come next (Koselleck, 1988). This means every protest movement is bound up with historical storytelling, today increasingly framed by the unravelling of the post-cold war order visible in domestic political contestation, rising populism and geopolitical tensions in Europe. Standing behind this is a degree of loss of faith in the utopian philosophies of history invented to resolve the crisis of the enlightenment’s challenge to autocracy in Europe.
- Issue Year: 29/2021
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 227-229
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
