Contested Histories : Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irish, Tomás.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monuments.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

Explores the debates around the past, present and future of public monuments.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Contesting the past, present and future: Approaching monuments before and after Colston Simon John and Tomás Irish

2 Striking similarities! Public statues, human bodies and the power of monuments Julie Deschepper

3 Beyond public memory: Scars and subversions of state-sanctioned monuments Anna Calori and Carlo Andrea Tassinari

4 The counter-monuments' legacy: Democratic monument making in the twenty-first century Tanja Schult and Tim Cole

5 'This "Libyanness" in the making': Septimius Severus, Libyan identity and the contested history of a twentieth-century statue Kieren Johns

6 'This nation can be great again': President Marcos, the Quezon Memorial and Philippine Martial Law Kimberley Lustina Weir

7 What Black statues reveal about whiteness in Washington, DC Frederick W. Gooding, Jr

8 When the state is the agent of de-commemoration: The case of the Vraca Memorial Park in Sarajevo Tijana Okić

9 Twin statues of Robert Clive and the long history of imperial narratives in London and Calcutta Jennifer Howes and Jayanta Sengupta

10 Contending with coloniality and commemoration at Trinity College Dublin: Futures of memorialization in Ireland and Britain Mobeen Hussain

Index

Untitled.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Irish, Tomás Contested Histories

ISBN:

9781350401679

OCLC:

1602013308