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Following The Woman with the Handbag: Mnemonic Context Collapse and the Anti-fascist Activist Appropriation of an Iconic Historical Photograph
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology. (DIGSUM)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9572-5922
2020 (English)In: Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media: Mobilising Mediated Remembrance / [ed] Samuel Merrill, Emily Keightley, Priska Daphi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 1, p. 111-139Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter follows a single iconic historical protest photograph across time, media and space, and traces and tracks its recent appropriation and mobilisation by different anti-fascist activists and social movements. The photograph, known as The Woman with the Handbag, shows a woman striking a neo-Nazi Nordic Reich Party member with her handbag. After outlining the relationship between photographs and memory in the age of digital reproduction and the methodology used to follow the photograph, the chapter discusses the photograph’s circulation before exploring what has happened to the cultural memories that it indexes as it has diffused digitally and been appropriated in different anti-fascist activist contexts. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the dangers of the collapsed historical and biographical contexts that can result from a photograph’s digital diffusion and activist appropriation.

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Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 1. p. 111-139
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Media and Communication Studies Human Geography Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-168703DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32827-6_5ISI: 000839317900005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85144051190ISBN: 978-3-030-32826-9 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-32827-6 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-168703DiVA, id: diva2:1412374
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MemoriUMAvailable from: 2020-03-05 Created: 2020-03-05 Last updated: 2026-02-24Bibliographically approved

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