De-Commemoration: Removing Statues and Renaming Places

Author:   Sarah Gensburger ,  Jenny Wustenberg
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
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Pages:   344
Publication Date:   13 October 2023
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Author:   Sarah Gensburger ,  Jenny Wustenberg
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805391074


ISBN 10:   1805391070
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   13 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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List of Illustrations Introduction Introduction: Making Sense of De-Commemoration Sarah Gensburger and Jenny Wustenberg Part I: De-commemoration after regime change Chapter 1. Baptizing and Unbaptizing in Algeria: From French Colonization to National Independence Amar Mohand-Amer Chapter 2. Street Renaming in Postsocialist Romania. A Quantitative Analysis of Toponymic Change Mihai Stelian Rusu Chapter 3. The First Bolshevik Leaves Riga : The De-Commemoration of Vladimir I. Lenin in Riga, Latvia (1987-1991) Dimitrijs Andrejevs Chapter 4. In Memory of the Fallen... But for How Long? The De-Commemoration of German War Memorials in Poland After 1945 Karolina Cwiek-Rogalska Chapter 5. Naming to Erase, Renaming to Restore. (Re)Indigenizing the Landscape Kerri J.Malloy Chapter 6. Removing Rhodes from His Pedestal: De-Commemoration in Post-Colonial South Africa Gary Baines Chapter 7. Contrasting Fates of Lenin statues in Ukraine and Russia Dominique Colas Chapter 8. Beyond the Monument: Unmaking the Valley of the Fallen in Contemporary Spain Francisco Ferrandiz Part II: De-commemoration and societal transformation Chapter 9. Re-naming and the relationship between colonized and colonizer: The role of commemoration within dual place names in New Zealand Taylor Annabell Chapter 10. De-Canonization of the Soviet past: Abject, Kitsch and Memory Yuliya Yurchuk Chapter 11. Adding and Removing in order to Remember and Replace: Decolonizing Urban Spaces in Cape Town and Copenhagen Vibe Nielsen Chapter 12. De-Commemoration as Healing and Conflict: Canada and Its Colonial Past and Present Kate Korycki Chapter 13. Killing Pedro de Valdivia Again: De-Commemoration of the Past and De-Neoliberalization of the Present During the 2019-2020 Chilean Revolt Manuela Badilla and Carolina Aguilera Chapter 14. De-Commemorating Sound: Controversies About the Re-Establishment of the National Anthem in South Korea and Beyond Bae Myo-Jung Chapter 15. Do commemorations have an 'expiration date'? A case study from Belgium Nicolas Moll Part III: De-commemoration to propel change Chapter 16. De-Commemorating Australian Settler Colonialism Sarah Maddison Chapter 17. Transnational Memory Struggles. Guerrilla Remembrances in Colombia and Venezuela in the 2000s Jimena Perry Chapter 18. De-commemorations and the unsettled past in contemporary Brazil Ricardo Santhiago Chapter 19. Decolonizing Colonial Monuments: Counter-Memory Activism in Madrid and Barcelona Fabiola Arellano Cruz Chapter 20. From Decapitation to Destruction: Making Sense of Toppling Statues in Contemporary Martinique Audrey Celestine, Valerie-Anne Edmond-Mariette and Zaka Toto Chapter 21. 'Next Stop Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Strasse': Place Names, De-Commemoration and Memory Activism in Berlin Duane Jethro and Samuel Merrill Chapter 22. The present is all that matters: De-commemoration practices in Israel Tracy Adams and Yinon Guttel-Klein Chapter 23. De-commemoration in Great Britain Stephen Small Chapter 24. The Role of Nonprofits in De-Commemoration: The Southern Poverty Law Center's Whose Heritage? Seth Levi and Kimberly Probulus Part IV: De-Commemoration as smoke-screen Chapter 25. De-commemoration without Decolonization? The peculiar case of the Philippines Lila Ramos Shahani Chapter 26. Twice Removed: the Mystery of Manila's Missing Comfort Woman Monument Catherine Lianza Aquino and Jocelyn S.Martin Chapter 27. Counter-Memory and State De-Commemoration: The Khavaran Mass Grave in Iran Chowra Makaremi Chapter 28. The toppling of the Equestrian statue and the future of colonial-era memorials in Namibia Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha Chapter 29. An Unmarked Rebellion: The Politics of Forgetting Denmark Vesey Vanessa Lynn Lovelace and Jamie Huff Chapter 30. Exploring the Scope of De-Commemoration: Touring Trafalgar Square in London and Beyond Stuart Burch Part V: De-commemoration to challenge memory Chapter 31. From De-Commemoration of Names to Reparative Namescapes. Geographical case studies in the USA Jordan P. Brasher and Derek Alderman Chapter 32. De-Commemoration under the Law. The Removal of Statues in France and the United States of America Thomas Hochmann Chapter 33. Human Rights and Toppled Statues. Can the European Convention on Human Rights Provide Solutions to De-Commemoration Disputes? Tom Lewis Chapter 34. Re-Commemoration: What Other Stories Can We Tell? Observing Ordinary People Engaging with Monuments in Australian Public Space Alison Atkinson Phillips Chapter 35. Who Cares About Old Statues and Street Names? Resisting Change and the Protracted De-Communization of Public Space in Poland Ewa Ochman Chapter 36. Keeping the past from freezing: Augmented reality and memories in the public space Mykola Makhortykh and Anna Menyhert Chapter 37. De-Commemorating White Supremacy Through the Act of Voting. Lorena Chambers

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Sarah Gensburger is Full Research Professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). In 2021, she was elected President of the international Memory Studies Association.Her ongoing research project, entitled The Memory Trap, investigates the relationship between neoliberalism, the crisis of the welfare state and the contemporary memory boom. She has published ten books, most of which available in multiple languages.

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