Monument Culture
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1414-8 (ISBN)
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 encourages readers to have a broad view of the challenges facing individuals and society in making sense of public monuments with contested meanings, and the ways in which differing places approach monuments in a landscape where institutions and ideas are under direct challenge from political and social unrest and 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 through publication 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.
The book presents a broad view of the challenges facing individuals and society in making sense of public monuments with contested meanings, and the ways in which differing places, from the United States to Europe to Africa to Australia and New Zealand to South America and beyond, approach monuments in a landscape where institutions and ideas are under direct challenge from political and social unrest and sharply changed attitudes about the representation of history and memory in the public sphere.
Laura A. Macaluso researches and writes about museums, monuments, and material culture. She has a Ph.D. from the Humanities/Cultural & Historic Preservation Departments at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island and in 2018 the narrative portion of her dissertation titled The Public Artscape of New Haven: Themes in the Creation of a City Image, was published. In 2019 Historic Virginia: A Tour of the State’s National Historic Landmarks will be published. She lives in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Preface & Introduction
Laura A. Macaluso
Section 1: Monument Culture Leading Essay
Chapter 1
Homage to Charlottesville: The Spanish Civil War and the International Legacy of the U.S. Monuments Debate
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
Ṅusta 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 21st 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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.05.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | American Association for State and Local History |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 581 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-1414-3 / 1538114143 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-1414-8 / 9781538114148 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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