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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This bookbrings 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. Zusammenfassung This book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ?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 a...
