Mobilizing the Past in Revolutionary Times: Memory, Counter?Memory, and Nostalgia During the Lebanese Uprising

Social movement studies have addressed the issue of nostalgia within two perspectives, focusing, respectively, on emotions and memory. Our contribution looks at in social movements by building upon combination these streams studies. Going beyond a stereotypical vision reactionary as backward looking progressive ones forward looking, we will suggest that while both types look some aspects past with nostalgia, they do it very different To compare how perform their emotional memory work, focused recent uprising Lebanon critical case which mobilizations counter-mobilizations been carried out actors same time. In cases, was strategically developed for moments Lebanon's history through movements' choices spaces performance contentious acts, but also symbolic meaning attributed to them work performed around protest events. By developing “tick description” main where emerged uprisings, aim understand ways intervenes construction memories counter-memories, an emotionally dense environment.