ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses how shared experiences of action enable social movements to form new contentious performances. It establishes the different types of contentious performances that the activists organizing the blockades in Lund could draw on approaching the political situation they intervened in. The chapter shows how these types of performances were rearticulated in experiments with a new kind of contentious performance on the streets of Lund, the anti-fascist blockade that took place in 1991. It argues that the specific experiences of this action were remembered collectively and have been used as an interpretative framework in the making of a distinctly regional variation of the radical left taking shape across Europe in the post-1989 moment. The chapter focuses on the relation between transformative events and the making of contentious performances as well as the more concrete mapping of the complex historical geographies of contemporary radical left politics in Europe.
