Solidarity: Memory work, periodicals and the protest lexicon in the long 1960s.

IF 1.4 2区 心理学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-09 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI:10.1177/17506980241263237
Sophie van den Elzen
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This article examines the lexical memory work performed by the British New Left as it differentiated itself from the organised labour movement post-1956. It argues that activists use memory to reframe the meaning of keywords in the 'protest lexicon', and that this is an important, though usually implicit, activist cultural practice. Based on previous work in conceptual history and cognitive science, it begins by situating lexical memory work as an activity on the border between narrative historical memory, semantic memory and implicit collective memory. It then discusses the resignification of the word solidarity during the long 1960s, when lexical work was a key feature of the New Left's apostasy from traditional Marxism. Finally, it examines the case of the British heterodox Marxist journal, Solidarity, outlining how it intervened in the protest lexicon by wrenching free the keyword solidarity from previous meanings, changing its historical referent and, ultimately, resignifying it.

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团结:二十世纪六十年代漫长岁月中的记忆工作、期刊和抗议词汇。
本文研究了英国新左派在1956年后从有组织的劳工运动中分化出来时所进行的词汇记忆工作。文章认为,活动家利用记忆来重构 "抗议词库 "中关键词的含义,这是一种重要的(尽管通常是隐性的)活动家文化实践。文章以概念史和认知科学领域的前人研究为基础,首先将词汇记忆工作定位为一种介于历史叙事记忆、语义记忆和隐性集体记忆之间的活动。然后讨论了在漫长的二十世纪六十年代,团结一词的重新定义,当时词汇工作是新左派背离传统马克思主义的一个主要特征。最后,它研究了英国异端马克思主义期刊《团结》的案例,概述了该期刊如何通过将关键词 "团结 "从以前的含义中解脱出来、改变其历史指代并最终使其辞职,从而对抗议词汇进行干预。
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Memory Studies
Memory Studies Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Memory Studies is an international peer reviewed journal. Memory Studies affords recognition, form, and direction to work in this nascent field, and provides a critical forum for dialogue and debate on the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues central to a collaborative understanding of memory today. Memory Studies examines the social, cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget. The journal responds to and seeks to shape public and academic discourse on the nature, manipulation, and contestation of memory in the contemporary era.
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