Performing Memory

Luisa Passerini is Professor Emerita at the European University Institute, Florence, and was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Project ‘Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond’ 2013-2018. She received the first All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values in 2014 and she is a member of the Scientific Committee of the House of European History, Brussels.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction

Luisa Passerini & Dieter Reinisch



Part I: Body in Movement/Body in Constrain



Chapter 1. Bodily Ways of Knowing and Remembering: Movement, Kinaesthesia, and Mobility

Marina Nordera



Chapter 2. Corporeality and Militant Performance during Northern Irish Prisons Protests, 1971-1983

Dieter Reinisch



Part II: Spectacle and Activism



Chapter 3. Soviet Media Spectacle: Visuality, Corporeality, and Identity in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s

Bohdan Shumylovych



Chapter 4. Bartering and Cross-Border Embodied Performances

Annelies Kuhlmann



Chapter 5. The Filmmaker as Saboteur: Found Footage and Détournement in Llorenç Soler’s Militant Films

Pablo La Parra Pérez:



Part III: Reports from the Field



Chapter 6. A Letter to the Future: Autumn Knight's WALL (2014) and the Studio Museum in Harlem

Cori Olinghouse



Chapter 7. Philadelphia Immigration Stories: Making the Aural Visual

Janneken Smucker



Afterword

Alexander Etkind



Bibliography

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