Contested Histories
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-40164-8 (ISBN)
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Examining case studies from Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe, this book explores the debates around the past, present and future of public monuments. Through the lens of the protests against controversial statues that began in 2020, it brings together scholars from across the academy to analyse the spatial, physical, and emotional interactions between monuments and people.
Including analysis of examples ranging from the statue of Indro Montanelli in Milan, to monumentalisation of Mughal and British occupation in the Indian subcontinent, this book uncovers the role of public monuments in crafting national and individual identities, their role in public memory, and how they may be used to preserve or subvert chosen pasts. Acknowledging how memorials may elicit a strong public reaction, the essays in this volume also consider the merit of certain actions when contesting public monuments – from small alterations to complete destruction.
With a strong emphasis on the future, this volume also surveys how artists and activists have, in recent years, begun to pioneer digital and other innovative methods of monumental commemoration. Exploring contemporary performance art and installation work, such as Nicholas’ Galanin’s Shadow on the Land, it demonstrates how the digital age can bring a statue’s local impact to new, global audiences, and create a new form of memorialisation.
Tomás Irish is Professor in Modern History at Swansea University, UK. Simon John is Associate Professor in Medieval History at Swansea University, UK. Hannah Lyons is an independent scholar.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Figures
1. Contesting the Past, Present and Future: Approaching Monuments Before and After Colston, Simon John and Tomás Irish (University of Swansea, UK)
2. Striking Similarities! Public Statues, Human Bodies, and the Power of Monuments, Julie Deschepper (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
3. Beyond Public Memory. Scars and Subversions of State-Sanctioned Monuments, Anna Calori and Carlo Andrea Tassinari (University of Glasgow, UK and University of Bologna, Italy)
4. The Counter-Monuments’ Legacy: Democratic Monument Making in the 21st Century, Tanja Schult and Tim Cole (Stockholm University, Sweden and University of Bristol, UK)
5. ‘This Libyanness in the Making’: Septimius Severus, Libyan Identity, and the Contested History of a Twentieth-Century Statue, Kieren Johns (Independent Scholar)
6. 'This nation can be great again’: President Marcos, the Quezon Memorial, and Philippine Martial Law, Kimberley Weir (University of Birmingham, UK)
7. What Black Statues Reveal about Whiteness in Washington, DC, Frederick W. Gooding, Jr. (Texas Christian University, USA)
8. When the State is the Agent of De-commemoration: the Case of the Vraca Memorial Park in Sarajevo, Tijana Okic (Independent Scholar)
9. Twin statues of Robert Clive and the Long History of Imperial Narratives in London and Calcutta, Jennifer Howes and Jayanta Sengupta (Independent Scholars)
10. Contending with coloniality and commemoration at Trinity College Dublin: Futures of Memorialisation in Ireland and Britain, Mobeen Hussein (University of York, UK)
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.9.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-40164-1 / 1350401641 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-40164-8 / 9781350401648 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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