- Summary
- "This book takes the urban space as a starting point for thinking about practices, actors, narratives, and imaginations within articulations of memory. The social protests and mobilizations against colonial statues are examples of how past injustice and violence keep on shaping debates in the present. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the contributions to this book focus on the in/visibility and affective power of monuments and traces through political, activist, and artistic contestations in different geographical settings. They show that memories are shaped in contact zones, most often in conflict and within hierarchical social relations. The notion of decentered memory shifts the perspective to relationships between imperial centers and margins, remembrance and erasure, nationalistic tendencies and migration. This plurality of connections emerges around unfinished histories of violence and resistance that are reflected in monuments and traces."--Back cover.
- Series
- Palgrave Macmillan memory studies,
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
©2022
- Contents
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Part 1. Approaching contested urban memoryscapes : Chapter 1: Introduction: Contested memory in urban Space / Ulrike Capdepón, Sarah Dornhof
Chapter 2: (In)visibile monuments. What makes monuments controversial? / Aleida Assmann
Chapter 3: Australian welcome walls and other sites of networked migrant memory / Alison Atkinson-Phillips
Chapter 4: Negotiating binaries in curatorial practice: modality, temporality, and materiality in Cape Town's community-led urban history museums / Stefanie Kappler, Antoinette McKane
Chapter 5: Contesting sensory memories: Smithfield market in London / Astrid Swenson
Part 2. Decentered memories : Chapter 6: Across the Atlantic. Silences and memories of Nazism in remote lands (Eldorado, Misiones) / Elizabeth Jelin
Chapter 7: [De]colonial memory practices in Germany's public space / Anke Schwarzer
Chapter 8: Splinters between memory and globalization: cosmic generator installation by Mika Rottenberg in Münster at Skulptur projekte 2017 / Susanne Mersmann
Part 3. Fallen monuments : Chapter 9: The empty pedestal: artistic practice and public space in Luanda / Nadine Siegert
Chapter 10: They took him away but it was like he was still around: can New York City move beyond the legacy of J. Marion Sims? / Jill Strauss
Chapter 11: Disgraced monuments: burying and unearthing Lenin and Lyautey / Sarah Dornhof
Part 4. Traces of violence : Chapter 12: Urban memory after war: ruins and reconstructions in post-Yugoslav cities / Gruia Bădescu
Chapter 13: Monumentality, forensic practices, and the representation of the dead: the debate about the memory of the post-Civil war victims in the Almudena cemetery, Madrid / Ulrike Capdepón
Chapter 14: The mass grave and the memorial. Notes from Mexico on memory work as contestation of contemporary terror / Anne Huffschmid.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Capdepón, Ulrike, editor.
Dornhof, Sarah, editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. Approaching contested urban memoryscapes : Chapter 1: Introduction: Contested memory in urban Space / Ulrike Capdepón, Sarah Dornhof -- Chapter 2: (In)visibile monuments. What makes monuments controversial? / Aleida Assmann -- Chapter 3: Australian welcome walls and other sites of networked migrant memory / Alison Atkinson-Phillips -- Chapter 4: Negotiating binaries in curatorial practice: modality, temporality, and materiality in Cape Town's community-led urban history museums / Stefanie Kappler, Antoinette McKane -- Chapter 5: Contesting sensory memories: Smithfield market in London / Astrid Swenson -- Part 2. Decentered memories : Chapter 6: Across the Atlantic. Silences and memories of Nazism in remote lands (Eldorado, Misiones) / Elizabeth Jelin -- Chapter 7: [De]colonial memory practices in Germany's public space / Anke Schwarzer -- Chapter 8: Splinters between memory and globalization: cosmic generator installation by Mika Rottenberg in Münster at Skulptur projekte 2017 / Susanne Mersmann -- Part 3. Fallen monuments : Chapter 9: The empty pedestal: artistic practice and public space in Luanda / Nadine Siegert -- Chapter 10: They took him away but it was like he was still around: can New York City move beyond the legacy of J. Marion Sims? / Jill Strauss -- Chapter 11: Disgraced monuments: burying and unearthing Lenin and Lyautey / Sarah Dornhof -- Part 4. Traces of violence : Chapter 12: Urban memory after war: ruins and reconstructions in post-Yugoslav cities / Gruia Bădescu -- Chapter 13: Monumentality, forensic practices, and the representation of the dead: the debate about the memory of the post-Civil war victims in the Almudena cemetery, Madrid / Ulrike Capdepón -- Chapter 14: The mass grave and the memorial. Notes from Mexico on memory work as contestation of contemporary terror / Anne Huffschmid.
