Combating Oppression With New Commemorations

Combating Oppression with New Commemorations examines the ways in which marginalized groups can confront oppressive regimes through commemorations and advocacy of their own heritage.

List of contents

Foreword, List of Contributors, List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Chapter 1. Introduction: Commemorative Engagements, Chapter 2. Monuments of Movement: Purposeful Remembering and Forgetting of the 1932 La Matanza (Massacre) in Western El Salvador, Chapter 3. Decolonizing Monument Designation in the Caribbean: Native Raizal Heritage and Cultural Patrimony on Old Providence and Santa Catalina Islands, Colombia, Chapter 4. Reparative Commemorations of Emancipation in the Modern World, Chapter 5. Relationships between Governance, Research, and Communities: Striving for Restorative Justice for St. Eustatius in the Caribbean, Chapter 6. Cultural Revitalization and a Seat of Common Heritage in Grenada, Chapter 7. "Now Our Remembered are Forgotten:" An Archaeology of the National Transgender Memorial Site in the United Kingdom, Chapter 8. A New Memorial for an Old Forgotten Tragedy: The 1871 Massacre in Los Angeles, Chapter 9. What Would Mother Jones Have Said? The Progressive Miners of America and Their Monument, Chapter 10. As We Continue to Wipe the Tears: Sequels of the First Nation Boarding School System and the Issues of Repatriation, Chapter 11. Monuments and Memorials: Art, Truth-telling, and Memory, Chapter 12. Asserting Rights and Justice through Special Black-American Yards, Chapter 13. A Tale of Three Cemeteries: The Challenge of Commemorating the Past, Index.

About the author

Christopher C. Fennell is Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an annual Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher C. Fennell
• Assisted by: Christopher C Fennell (Editor), Fennell Christopher C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 25.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032735184
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3273518-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Restorative Justice in Heritage Studies and Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, ART / Museum Studies, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, National liberation and independence