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Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants

anti-austerity movements and how they did or did not use memories of transition strategically to construct their own identities by connecting with previous, successful leftist movements. In Portugal, memories of the revolution are uncontested and, consistent with their argument, frequently relied on by activists. In Spain, contemporary activists only use the memory of transition selectively, but the authors argue that the negotiated transition is viewed with suspicion and has little resonance among activists. Contemporary activists use the memory of the civil war (a defeat) instead. In Italy and Greece, the story is much more complex, with the construction of fractured and even competing narratives due to a discontinuity with post-resistance institutions. The authors describe a betrayed resistance that challenges any continuity with the past. Della Porta and her coauthors compare four similar southern European nations and demonstrate how social movements both shape and are shaped by memory. This book brings together the social movements and collective memory literatures in new and important ways, demonstrating how contemporary activists are constrained and enabled by the legacies of the movements that precede them. This book would be of interest to scholars of social movements, culture, collective memory, and comparative historical sociology.