
Contested Public Monuments
Global perspectives on landscapes of memory
Maria Grever(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 13. November 2025
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Paperback/Softback
98 pages
978-1-009-51571-9 (ISBN)
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In the new millennium, many public monuments around the world have become the target of protests as part of social movements' struggles against inequality and discrimination. Despite research into the significance of toppled statues or damaged monuments and the motives of activists, little attention has been paid to the extent to which iconoclastic activism changes the narratives of public spaces or landscapes of memory. This Element approaches current conflicts over public monuments as an attempt to transform the mnemonic regime of public spaces. It examines global cases involving colonialism, Black slavery, world wars, and women's oppression. Using theoretical concepts, such as monumental narrativity, necropolitical space, white innocence, and the implicated subject, four current contexts of contestations will be highlighted: the fabric of landscapes of memory; the relationship between the living and the dead of a community; the power of visual language, iconography, and multiplication; the importance of dialogical monuments.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
156 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-51571-9 (9781009515719)
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Content
1. Introduction; 2. Landscapes of memory and monumental narrativity; 3. Monuments and necropolitical space; 4. Iconography, visual language, and multiplication; 5. Dialogical monuments in a global media network; 6. Conclusion; References.