Examining case studies from Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe, this book explores the debates around the past, present and future of public monuments. Through the lens of the protests against controversial statues that peaked in 2020, it brings together scholars from disciplines including history, art history, classics, politics and philosophy to analyse the spatial, physical, and emotional interactions between monuments and people.
Including analysis of examples drawn from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, India, Ireland, Italy, Libya, the Philippines, the United States, this book uncovers the role of public monuments in shaping national and individual identities, their role in public memory, and how they may be used to preserve or subvert chosen narratives about the past. Acknowledging how memorials may elicit a strong public reaction, the essays in this volume also consider instances of different actions when contesting public monuments – from small alterations to complete destruction. The volume uses contemporary examples to explore not only the pasts and presents of public monuments, but also their futures.
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Contested Histories
Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments
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Contested Histories
Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Contesting the past, present and future: Approaching monuments before and after Colston Simon John and Tomás Irish
- 2 Striking similarities! Public statues, human bodies and the power of monuments Julie Deschepper
- 3 Beyond public memory: Scars and subversions of state-sanctioned monuments Anna Calori and Carlo Andrea Tassinari
- 4 The counter-monuments’ legacy: Democratic monument making in the twenty-first century Tanja Schult and Tim Cole
- 5 ‘This “Libyanness” in the making’: Septimius Severus, Libyan identity and the contested history of a twentieth-century statue Kieren Johns
- 6 ‘This nation can be great again’: President Marcos, the Quezon Memorial and Philippine Martial Law Kimberley Lustina Weir
- 7 What Black statues reveal about whiteness in Washington, DC Frederick W. Gooding, Jr
- 8 When the state is the agent of de-commemoration: The case of the Vraca Memorial Park in Sarajevo Tijana Okić
- 9 Twin statues of Robert Clive and the long history of imperial narratives in London and Calcutta Jennifer Howes and Jayanta Sengupta
- 10 Contending with coloniality and commemoration at Trinity College Dublin: Futures of memorialization in Ireland and Britain Mobeen Hussain
- Index
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