Tours Inside the Snow Globe : Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging / Tonya K. Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Tonya K., 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monuments--Ontario--Ottawa--Guidebooks.

Monuments.

Monuments--Social aspects--Ontario--Ottawa.

Walking.

Walking--Ontario--Ottawa--Tours.

Ottawa (Ont.)--Tours.

Ottawa (Ont.).

Ottawa (Ont.)--Guidebooks.

Genre:

Tours

Guidebooks

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"The toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively-loaded participants in society. In the context of Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, monuments inspire colonial and imperial nostalgia, compelling visitors to consistently re-imagine Canada as a white, Anglophone nation, built through the labour of white men: politicians, soldiers, and businessmen. At the same time, Ottawa monuments allow for dominant affective relationships to the nation to be challenged, demonstrated through subtle and explicit forms of defacement and other interactions that compel us to remember colonial violence, pacifism, violence against women, racisms. Organized as a series of walking tours throughout Ottawa, the chapters in Tours Inside the Snow Globe demonstrate the affective capacities of monuments and highlight how these monuments have ongoing relationships with their sites, the city, other monuments, and local, deliberate, national, and casual communities of users. The tours focus on the lives of a monument to an unnamed Indigenous scout, the National War Memorial, Enclave: the Women’s Monument, and the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights. Two of the tours offer analyses of the ambivalent representations of women and Indigeneity in Ottawa’s statue landscape."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One Gichi Zibi Omaami Winini Anishinaabe

Chapter Two The Upside-Down Astrolabe Tour

Chapter Three The Agora Tour

Chapter Four The Poppy Tour

Chapter Five The Mica Tour

Chapter Six Laura Secords Tour

Chapter Seven The Placard Tour

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781771126038

1771126035

9781771126045

1771126043

OCLC:

1381798282