Monument culture international perspectives on the future of monuments in a changing world
Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1: Monument culture: Leading essay. Homage to Charlottesville: a familiar essay / Alex Vernon -- Section 2: Monument culture: land, people, and place. Implications of erasure in Polynesia / Carmen S. Tomfohrde ; Monuments in Antarctica: commemoration of historic ev...
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Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London
Rowman & Littlefield
2019
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| Schriftenreihe: | American Association for State and Local History Book Series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1: Monument culture: Leading essay. Homage to Charlottesville: a familiar essay / Alex Vernon -- Section 2: Monument culture: land, people, and place. Implications of erasure in Polynesia / Carmen S. Tomfohrde ; Monuments in Antarctica: commemoration of historic events or claims for sovereignty? / Ingo Heidbrink ; Phnom Penh's Independence Monument and Vientiane's Patuxai: complex symbols of postcolonial nationhood in Cold War-era southeast Asia / Roger Nelson ; Enshrining racial hierarchy through settler commemoration in the American West / Cynthia C. Prescott -- Section 3: Monument culture: trauma/violence and reconciliation/reparations. In defense of historical stains: how clean approaches to the past can keep us dirty / Dan Haumschild ; Repairing and reconciling with the past: El Ojo que Llora and Peru's public monuments / Ñusta Carranza Ko ; Ruptures and continuities in the post-apartheid political and cultural landscape: a reading of South African monument culture / Runette Kruger ; Beyond ruins: Borgoño's barracks and the struggle over memory in today's Chile / Basil Farraj -- Section 4: Monument culture: migration and identity. Iconoclasm and imperial symbols: The Gough and Victoria Monuments in Ireland and the British world, 1880-1990 / Derek N. Boetcher ; Monuments of refugee identity: pain, unity, and belonging in three monuments of Cappadocian Greeks / Zeliha Nilüfer Nahya and Saim Örnek ; Kindertransports in national and transnational perspective / Amy Williams ; A Cubist portrait of Christopher Columbus: studying monuments as transcultural works / Chiara Grilli -- Section 5. Monument culture: ambiguities and alternatives. Visible differently: Roni Horn's Vatnasafn/Library of Water as memorial / Elliot Krasnopoler ; Monuments and other things that change: several attempts at titling a photograph / Masha Vlasova ; Illegal monuments: memorials between crime and state endorsement / Nauskiaä El-Mecky ; Transnational social media monuments, counter monuments, and the future of the nation-state / Johnny Alam -- Section 6: Monument culture: strategies and actions: Citizens as walking memorials: rethinking the monument genre in the twenty-first century / Tanja Schult ; Exhibiting spectacle and recasting memory: commemorating the First World War in New Zealand / Kingsley Baird ; Dealing with a dictatorial past: Fascist monuments and conflicting memory in contemporary Italy / Flaminia Bartolini ; Avoiding iconoclasm: how the counter monument could settle a monumental debate / Scott McDonald -- Section 7: Monument culture: closing essay. On creating a useable future: an introduction to future monuments / Evander Price Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World' brings together a collection of essays from scholars and cultural critics working on the meanings of monuments and memorials in the second decade of the twenty-first century, a time of great social and political change. The book presents a broad view of the challenges facing individuals and society in making sense of public monuments with contested meanings. From the United States to Europe to Africa to Australia and New Zealand to South America and beyond, the contributors tackle the ways in which different places approach monuments in a landscape where institutions and ideas are under direct challenge from political and social unrest. It also discusses sharply changed attitudes about the representation of history and memory in the public sphere. The goal is to acknowledge shared experiences through a wider perspective; to contribute to the work of the world-wide heritage community; and to document the history and shifting cultural attitudes towards monument culture across the world, encouraging a more informed approach to monuments and their meanings especially for the public and those outside of academia. |
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| Beschreibung: | xxii, 277 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781538114148 978-1-5381-1414-8 9781538114155 978-1-5381-1415-5 |