Application summary

This four-year, Kone Foundation funded project brings together a multidisciplinary team of a PhD researcher, a postdoctoral researcher, and a filmmaker. Mass protests create decisive ruptures, yet their long-term impact depends on how they are remembered. This multidisciplinary project examines how protestors’ memories shift from records of past events into tools of resistance, solidarity, and survival across cycles of mobilization. The project fills a gap by examining how the interplay of collective memory and memory activism enables movements to sustain continuity. It asks: what determines whether protest memories endure, are strategically deployed, or erased? Theoretically, it develops the framework of movement memory-scapes, showing how emotional, visual, verbal, and spatial dimensions of memory sustain resistance across time. Empirically, it generates new knowledge on how memories of events, practices are preserved, reinterpreted, and mobilized in new cycles of dissent. Methodologically, it applies a multi-method qualitative design: (1)narrative interviews, (2)memory mapping, and (3)secondary documents. Researchers and a filmmaker collaborate to capture memory in textual and visual forms. Outputs include journal articles, a monograph, a PhD dissertation, and a documentary.