ABSTRACT
The contributions to this section discuss actors in memory activism from diverse political and moral positions, including conservatives, anti-neoliberal and extreme-right activists. These positions and their enactments are analyzed with reference to social categories, such as border crossers, communities, generations, coalitions and researchers, and heuristic categories, such as implicated subjects, post-heroes, and ghosts. The voices of memory activists themselves inform these classifications and are used in the analysis of memory institutions and initiatives. This section suggests we study the work of memory actors by examining the relations between actors, activism, and their outcomes as dynamic, contingent on activists’ networks, and processual. The types and social positions studied in this section's chapters exemplify the complex relations between action, activism, and actors’ roles. The pieces in this section study the power to change narratives about the past through the role of the actor as a mediator and agent of change in this process, with examples from Armenia, Austria, Chile, Egypt, Germany, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States.
