Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Decker, Juilee

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed, embodied narratives in the public realm.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000895940
• Artikelnr.: 68077974

Autorenporträt

Juilee Decker is a Professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology where she directs the Museum Studies/Public History program.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Post-Creation Life of Monuments and Memorials,
1. Following Father's Footsteps: Slavery, Imperialism and the William
Ewart Gladstone Memorial Statue in Liverpool City Centre
2. Problematical Benefactors and Founding Fathers: Negotiating
Sculptures of MT Steyn and JH Marais at South African Universities
3. Recasting Columbus: Local Contestations Against the Monumentalization
of Settler Colonialism
4. "Decolonizing the Streets!" of California through the Removal of
Junípero Serra Monuments and Statues
5. A Decolonial and Pedagogic Fall on Tulcan Hill: Between Recasting
Public Memory and Place, and Recovering History and Commemoration
6. The Politics of Erasure: De-Commemorating "Comfort Women" in the
Philippines
7. Saving Communist Monuments in the Context of De-Communisation in
Ukraine: An Examination of Conflicting Narratives
8. From Civil to Culture War: Confederate Statues and Statutes in
Nashville, Tennessee
9. (Re) claiming Public Memory: Confederate Monuments and Memorials as
Sites of Contestation in the American South
10. Recontextualizing a Campus Monument of George Washington through
Collaborative Engagement in the Arts
11. "The Disparity Between Us": Rochester's Frederick Douglass Memorial
and its Inscription on the 21st-Century Landscape
12. Digital Lieux de Mémoire and Milieux de Mémoire: Josephine de
Beauharnais and the Digital Afterlife of Toppled Statues
13. Monuments Cast Shadows: Remembering and Forgetting the 'Dead
Survivors' of Nazi Persecution in Swedish Cemeteries
14. Sono Persone Ata Janë Njerëz 8.8.1991: Public Mementos and the
Political Agency of Absence
Deliberation: The Remembrance of Things Cast