"Section 1: Monument Culture: Leading Essay Chapter 1 Homage to Charlottesville: A Familiar Essay Alex Vernon Section 2: Monument Culture: Land, People, and Place Chapter 2 Implications of Erasure in Polynesia Carmen S. Tomfohrde Chapter 3 Monuments in Antarctica: Commemoration of Historic Events or Claims for Sovereignty? Ingo Heidbrink Chapter 4 Phnom Penh¿s Independence Monument and Vientiane¿s Patuxai: Complex Symbols of Postcolonial Nationhood in Cold War¿Era Southeast Asia Roger Nelson Chapter 5 Enshrining Racial Hierarchy through Settler Commemoration in the American West Cynthia C. Prescott Section 3: Monument Culture: Trauma/Violence and Reconciliation/Reparations Chapter 6 In Defense of Historical Stains: How Clean Approaches to the Past Can Keep Us Dirty Dan Haumschild Chapter 7 Repairing and Reconciling with the Past: El Ojo que Llora and Peru¿s Public Monuments ; usta Carranza Ko Chapter 8 Ruptures and Continuities in the Post-Apartheid Political and Cultural Landscape: A Reading of South African Monument Culture Runette Kruger Chapter 9 Beyond Ruins: Borgoño¿s Barracks and the Struggle over Memory in Today¿s Chile Basil Abdelrazeq Farraj Section 4: Monument Culture: Migration and Identity Chapter 10 Iconoclasm and Imperial Symbols: The Gough and Victoria Monuments in Ireland and the British World, 1880¿1990 Derek N. Boetcher Chapter 11 Monuments of Refugee Identity: Pain, Unity, and Belonging in Three Monuments of Cappadocian Greeks Zeliha Nilüfer Nahya and Saim Örnek Chapter 12 Kindertransports in National and International Memory Amy Williams Chapter 13 A Cubist Portrait of Christopher Columbus: Studying Monuments as Transcultural Works Chiara Grilli Section 5: Monument Culture: Ambiguities and Alternatives Chapter 14 Visible Differently: Roni Horn¿s Vatnasafn/Library of Water as Memorial Elliot Krasnopoler Chapter 15 Monuments and Other Things That Change: Several Attempts at Titling a Photograph Masha Vlasova Chapter 16 Illegal Monuments: Memorials between Crime and State Endorsement Nauskiaä El-Mecky Chapter 17 Transnational Social Media Monuments, Counter Monuments, and the Future of the Nation-State Johnny Alam Section 6: Monument Culture: Strategies and Actions Chapter 18 Citizens as Walking Memorials: Rethinking the Monument Genre in the Twenty-First Century Tanja Schult Chapter 19 Exhibiting Spectacle and Recasting Memory: Commemorating the First World War in New Zealand Kingsley Baird Chapter 20 Dealing with a Dictatorial Past: Fascist Monuments and Conflicting Memory in Contemporary Italy Flaminia Bartolini Chapter 21 Avoiding Iconoclasm: How the Counter Monument Could Settle a Monumental Debate Scott McDonald Section 7: Monument Culture: Closing Essay Chapter 22 On Creating a Useable Future: An Introduction to Future Monuments Evander Price." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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. 0The 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. 0The 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.
Series:
American Association for State and Local History Book Series
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