Download or read book Remembering Contentious Lives written by Ann Rigney and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2025-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first to integrate insights from life writing studies into the field of memory studies and opens a new chapter in the study of the memory-activism nexus. It addresses two interrelated questions: How are the lived experiences of contention remembered in the form of auto/biography? How is life writing, as an act of cultural remembrance, used in (contemporary) activism? Building on cutting-edge scholarship on the socio-political potential of narrating lived experience, this volume focuses on life-writing as a new point of observation on the entanglement between memory and activism. This is an open access book.