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Photography and Social Movements: From the Globalisation of the Movement (1968) to the Movement Against Globalisation (2001)

This book examines the previously unstudied interrelationship of photography and major social movements. It focuses on three case studies, namely the student and worker uprising in Paris of May 1968, the Zapatista indigenous movement in Mexico since 1994, and the anti-capitalist protests in Genoa in 2001. Drawing upon original archival research and using primary and secondary literature in English, French, Italian and Spanish, this study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the photography of social movements embracing a wide range of photographic practices, both amateur and professional. The research investigates how photographs of social movements function in a complex ideological web of transmission of political ideas and demonstrates how their meanings relate to the way these photographs have been used. It also maps out the circulation of these photographs within various socio-political contexts including magazines, newspapers and the Internet as well as in the mainstream press, in photographic publications and in exhibitions.

The archival research conducted in Paris was funded by Central Research Fund (University of London) and the book received a publication grant from the Association of Art Historian (Image Cost Grant). Memou’s research was disseminated in papers at the ‘French Connection’ International Conference (University of Cambridge, July 2008), 36th Association of Art Historians’ Annual Conference, (University of Glasgow, April 2010), EU Workshop (University of Heidelberg, February 2010), at Sabanci University, Istanbul (May 2010), the ‘Curating Resistance’ Symposium (University of Essex, October 2010), the Still Gallery (Edinburgh, March 2012) and in a seminar of the Social Movements Network funded by Marie Curie Training Series (Prague, August 2008).

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