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L'interdiction de l'avortement (1966‑1989) en Roumanie sous Ceauşescu est considérée comme une des plus restrictives politiques démographiques du xx e siècle. Comment ethnographier la mémoire de ce passé traumatique, encore tabou en Roumanie post-communiste ? À partir des différents dilemmes méthodologiques éprouvés sur le terrain, l'ethnologue s'interroge sur la restitution possible de cette mémoire, ainsi que sur les limites d'une enquête réalisée entre un présent partagé avec ses interlocuteurs et un passé qui ne l'est pas.

Taking the memory of pronatalism in contemporary Romania as a case study, this article is an attempt to view the national politics of memory of contemporary Europe with regard to its communist past from an anthropological perspective. From 1966 to 1989, the communist regime imposed extreme policies of controlled demography in Romania, as it was imputed, for 'the good of the socialist nation'. Profamily measures were developed in parallel to the banning of abortion on request and the making of contraception almost inaccessible. The social remembering of such a difficult past is still a taboo in contemporary Romanian society. This general lack of public remembering, which is still playing a role in the current situation of Romania's reproductive health, is influenced by the interrelations between the different forms of pronatalist memory. The analysis is based on oral history fieldwork conducted between 2003 and 2008, and is theoretically informed by the interdisciplinary field of Memory Studies.

Gruppe spur : art as a revolutionary medium during the cold war / Mia Lee -- In pursuit of the invisible revolution : sigma in the Netherlands, 1966-1968 / Niek Pas -- "The brigade is everywhere" : violence and spectacle in the British counterculture / Samantha Christiansen -- Corpse polemics : the Third World and the politics of gore in 1960s West Germany / Quinn Slobodian -- Communist youth groups and rock music in Greece in the late 1970s / Nikolaos Papadogiannis -- The voice of the other America : African-American music and political protest in the German Democratic Republic / Michael Rauhut -- From England with hate : skinheads and "nazi rock" in Great Britain and Germany / Timothy Brown -- Punk jihads : immigrants, sub-cultures and political violence, 1955-2001 / Alexander Clarkson -- Red state, golden youth : student culture and political protest in 1960s Poland / Malgorzata Fidelis -- In the shadow of the wall : urban space and everyday life in Berlin Kreuzberg / Carla MacDougall -- Between confrontation and frivolity? : gender and militancy in the Czech alter-globalisation movement / Marta Kol?rov? -- Protesting bodies and bodily protest : a plea for a 'thinking through the body' in social movement research / Andrea Pabst -- Post-modern protest : minimal techno and multitude / Andrew Lison -- Conclusion / Timothy S. Brown.

In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum also invites its contributors to reflect on concrete interventions from their respective positions.

Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied social phenomenon, one that finds expression not only in modern social movements and political organizations but also in grassroots initiatives, individual action, and creative works. It constitutes a distinct cultural domain, one whose symbolic content is regularly deployed by media and advertisers, among other actors. Yet within social movement scholarship, such cultural considerations have been comparatively neglected. Protest Cultures: A Companion dramatically expands the analytical perspective on protest beyond its political and sociological aspects. It combines cutting-edge synthetic essays with concise, accessible case studies on a remarkable array of protest cultures, outlining key literature and future lines of inquiry