Fallen monuments and contested memorials / edited by Juilee Decker.

• Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Post-Creation Life of Monuments and Memorials -- Post-Creation Life -- Iconoclasm -- Persistent, Yet Mutable, Monuments -- Overview -- Deliberations -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Following in Father's Footsteps: Slavery, Imperialism, and the William Ewart Gladstone Memorial Statue in Liverpool City Centre -- Introduction -- Slaving Capital of the World and Imperial Gateway -- De-commemoration as an End in Itself. 
• De-commemoration as a Means to an End -- Relevance of Imperialism and Its Legacies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Problematical Benefactors and Founding Fathers: Negotiating Sculptures of MT Steyn and JH Marais at South African Universities -- University Sculpted Portraits and Afrikaner Nationalism -- Changing Visual Culture at the University of the Free State -- Changing Visual Culture at Stellenbosch University -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Recasting Columbus: Local Contestations against the Monumentalization of Settler Colonialism. 
• Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: "Decolonizing the Streets!" of California through the Removal of Junípero Serra Monuments and Statues -- Sainthood for Serra -- Serra's Sainthood as Problematic -- Vandalism of Serra Monuments and Statues -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: A Decolonial and Pedagogic Fall on Tulcan Hill: Between Recasting Public Memory and Place, and Recovering History and Commemoration -- The Sculpture(s) on the Hill -- The Land -- The Toppling -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: The Politics of Erasure: De-Commemorating "Comfort Women" in the Philippines -- Introduction. 
• History and the Question of Commemoration -- The Political Economy of Erasure -- The Cost of Making Peace with the Past -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Saving Communist Monuments in the Context of De-Communisation in Ukraine: An Examination of Conflicting Narratives -- Introduction -- Outlining the Wider Context of the Analyzed Commemorative Activity -- De-communisation Processes in Ukraine -- The Commemorated Period -- Monument to Ivan Kotlov -- Monument to Sailors of the Dniprovska Military Flotilla -- Conflicting Narratives and Symbolic Plasticity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography. 
• Chapter 8: From Civil to Culture War: Confederate Statues and Statutes in Nashville, Tennessee -- Renewed Debate -- Art Defense -- Common Soldier Defense -- Antigone Defense -- Universal Cause Defense -- Learn from History Defense -- Renewed Opposition and Defense -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: (Re) claiming Public Memory: Confederate Monuments and Memorials as Sites of Contestation in the American South -- The Commission and Removal of Confederate Monuments and Memorials -- Paint: Reclaiming Monuments as Sites of Artivism in Richmond, Virginia -- Projection: Light as Muse. 

• 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. Bringing together international, multidisciplinary approaches, the chapters in this volume interrogate the ways in which memorial constructions disclose implicitly and explicitly the proxy battle for public memory and identity, particularly since 2015. Acknowledging the ways in which the past — which is given agency through monuments and memorials — intrudes into daily life, this volume offers perspectives from researchers that answer questions about the roles of monuments and memorials as persistent, yet mutable, works whose meanings are not fixed but are, rather, subject to processes of continual re-interpretation. By using monuments and memorials as lenses through which to view race, memory, and the legacies of war, power, and subjugation, this volume demonstrates how these works, and their visible representations of entitlement, possession, control, and authority, can offer the opportunity to pose and answer questions about whose memory matters and what our symbols say about who we are and what we value. Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials is essential reading for scholars and students studying cultural heritage, history, art history, and public history. It will be particularly useful to those with an interest in public monuments and memorials; colonial and post-colonial history; memory studies; and nationalism, race, and ethnic studies. 

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Collective memory.  (LCSH)

Collective memory  (LCSH)

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