Social Movements, Memory and Media

Lorenzo Zamponi is a Research Fellow in sociology and political science at the Scuola Normale Superiore, in the Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali (Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences) in Italy, where he is part of the COSMOS (Centre on Social Movement Studies) research team. He holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute. His research interests include memory, contentious politics and media analysis.

• Part 1: Introduction, Background and Methods .- 1. Introduction .- 2. Memory and Movements: A Long Research Path .- 3. The Student Movements in Italy and Spain and How to Study Their Memories .- Part 2: Memory in Discourse: Representations of the 1960s and 1970s in the Media Forum .- 4. Contentious Memories of the Italian Student Movement: The 'Long 1968' in the Field of Public Memory .- 5. Contentious Memories of the Spanish Student Movement: Representations of the Spanish 1968 in the Public Memory of the Transition .- Part 3: Memory in Action: Mnemonic Practices, Collective Identities and Strategic Choices in Contemporary Student Movements .- 6. Syntax: The Forms of Memory .- 7. Semantics: The Competing Narratives of Student Movement Memories .- 8. Pragmatics: Memory, Identity and Strategy .- 9. Conclusions.