Obstinate memory: Working-class politics and neoliberal forgetting in the United Kingdom and Chile
dc.contributor.author | Watkins, Heather | |
dc.contributor.author | Urbina-Montana, Maria | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-10T10:36:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-10T10:36:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-02-08 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Watkins, H., & Urbina-Montana, M. (2022). Obstinate memory: Working-class politics and neoliberal forgetting in the United Kingdom and Chile. Memory Studies, 15(5), 1127–1141. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980211073111 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1750-6980 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/17506980211073111 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2436/624596 | |
dc.description | © 2022 The Authors. Published by SAGE. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980211073111 | en |
dc.description.abstract | In the 40 years since Chile and the United Kingdom became the crucibles of neoliberalization, working-class agency has been transformed, its institutions systematically dismantled and its politics, after the continuity neoliberalism of both the UK Blair government and the Chilean Concertación, in a crisis of legitimacy. In the process, memories of struggle have been captured within narratives of ‘capitalist realism’ (Fisher) – the present, past and future collapsed into Walter Benjamin’s ‘empty homogeneous time’. This article explores ways in which two traumatic moments of working-class struggle have been narrativized by the media in the service of this ‘presentism’: the 1973 coup in Chile and the 1984–1985 Miners’ Strike in the United Kingdom. We argue that the use of ‘living history’ or bottom-up approaches to memory provides an urgently needed recovery of disruptive narratives of class identity and offers a way of reclaiming alternative futures from the grip of reductive economic nationalism. | en |
dc.format | application/pdf | en |
dc.language | en | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | SAGE | en |
dc.relation.url | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17506980211073111 | en |
dc.subject | Chile | en |
dc.subject | collective memory | en |
dc.subject | media | en |
dc.subject | neoliberalism | en |
dc.subject | presentism | en |
dc.subject | United Kingdom | en |
dc.title | Obstinate memory: Working-class politics and neoliberal forgetting in the United Kingdom and Chile | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1750-6999 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Memory Studies | en |
dc.date.updated | 2022-02-09T10:25:42Z | |
rioxxterms.funder | University of Wolverhampton | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | UOW10022022MU | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-02-10 | en |
dc.source.volume | 15 | |
dc.source.issue | 5 | |
dc.source.beginpage | 175069802110731 | |
dc.source.beginpage | 1127 | |
dc.source.endpage | 175069802110731 | |
dc.source.endpage | 1141 | |
dc.description.version | Published online | |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-02-10T10:36:29Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-02-10T10:36:39Z |