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In this chapter we summarise key insights from our study and introduce important reflections from the Afterlives of Protest Research Network to further the work of academics and practitioners in the field. We discuss the significant role of holistic accountability within the cultural sector and the emergent role of digital technologies in expanding public understandings of protest memory beyond the purely aesthetic. We situate the ethical challenges that sit behind the imperative to tell ‘both sides of the story’ of protest histories and demonstrate how institutional power can problematically be reinscribed through uncompensated activist labour. Encompassing these concerns is an attention to issues of precarity and risk with the cultural, arts and heritage sector.
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Chidgey, R., Garde-Hansen, J. (2024). Reflections on Precarity and Risk. In: Museums, Archives and Protest Memory . Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44478-4_6
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