Donatella della Porta is Professor of Political Science, Dean of the Institute for Humanities and the Social Sciences, and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies.Massimiliano Andretta is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pisa.Tiago Fernandes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nova University in Portugal.Eduardo Romanos is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow in the Department of Sociology I at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.Markos Vogiatzoglou is working as a Scientific Adviser to the Greek Government's Minister of State.

This book provides important insights for scholars in sociology and political science. A thorough examination of how meanings emerge through historical pathways shows how studying history and memory can assuage the present-oriented bias of current sociological scholarship.

• PrefaceChapter 1 Past and Present: History as Resource and Constraint for Social MovementsChapter 2 Transition Times in MemoryChapter 3 Institutional LegaciesChapter 4 Movements' LegaciesChapter 5 Movement MemoriesChapter 6 Legacies, Memories, and Social Movements: Some Comparative RemarksReferences List of Interviews

Donatella della Porta is Professor of Political Science, Dean of the Institute for Humanities and the Social Sciences, and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies.Massimiliano Andretta is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pisa.Tiago Fernandes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nova University in Portugal.Eduardo Romanos is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow in the Department of Sociology I at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.Markos Vogiatzoglou is working as a Scientific Adviser to the Greek Government's Minister of State.

This book provides important insights for scholars in sociology and political science. A thorough examination of how meanings emerge through historical pathways shows how studying history and memory can assuage the present-oriented bias of current sociological scholarship.

• PrefaceChapter 1 Past and Present: History as Resource and Constraint for Social MovementsChapter 2 Transition Times in MemoryChapter 3 Institutional LegaciesChapter 4 Movements' LegaciesChapter 5 Movement MemoriesChapter 6 Legacies, Memories, and Social Movements: Some Comparative RemarksReferences List of Interviews

Donatella della Porta is Professor of Political Science, Dean of the Institute for Humanities and the Social Sciences, and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies.Massimiliano Andretta is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pisa.Tiago Fernandes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nova University in Portugal.Eduardo Romanos is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow in the Department of Sociology I at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.Markos Vogiatzoglou is working as a Scientific Adviser to the Greek Government's Minister of State.

This book provides important insights for scholars in sociology and political science. A thorough examination of how meanings emerge through historical pathways shows how studying history and memory can assuage the present-oriented bias of current sociological scholarship.

• PrefaceChapter 1 Past and Present: History as Resource and Constraint for Social MovementsChapter 2 Transition Times in MemoryChapter 3 Institutional LegaciesChapter 4 Movements' LegaciesChapter 5 Movement MemoriesChapter 6 Legacies, Memories, and Social Movements: Some Comparative RemarksReferences List of Interviews