Monuments As Cultural and Critical Objects - From Mesolithic to Eco-Queer

Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument culture.

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘Face the Dark Confusion’: Experiencing Monuments
Part I. The Monument: Histories and Theories
1 The Monument and the Arts of Memory
2 Theorising the Monument
Part II. The Monument and Psychoanalysis
3 The Monument, the Holocaust, and the Crypt: Rachel Whiteread, Jacques Derrida, and Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok’s Cryptonymy
4 D.W. Winnicott and the Destruction of the Monument
5 Countermonuments, Transitional Objects, and the Fear of Breakdown
Part III. Monuments, Colonialism, and Imperial Spaces
6 Monuments and Colonial Domination
7 Cecil Rhodes, Oriel College, and the Will to Change
8 Decolonising Edward Colston in Bristol: The Contrapuntal Monument
Part IV: Queer Monuments
9 LGBTQIA+ Monuments, Sacred Heterotopias, and the Fantasy of Purity
10 Stonewall, Political Visibility, and the Pressures of LGBTQIA+ Memorialisation
11 Paranoid Monuments, Eve Sedgwick, and Queer Remembrance: (Or, You Probably Think This Monument Is About You)
12 The Monument and Queer Ecology
Epilogue: Mesolithic Monuments, ecosystemic collapse, and Hope in the Time of Coronavirus
Index

About the author

Thomas Houlton is an academic, writer, and editor based in York, UK. Educated at the University of Cambridge and New York University, he gained his PhD from the University of Sussex, where he also worked at the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. He has had both critical and creative writing published in journals and magazines.

Summary

Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument culture.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Houlton, Thomas (Academic Houlton
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2021
• EAN: 9780367186753
• ISBN: 978-0-367-18675-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; memory, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social, group or collective psychology, Social and cultural anthropology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis