Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials

Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed, embodied narratives in the public realm.

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Juilee Decker is a Professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology where she directs the Museum Studies/Public History program.

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Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed, embodied narratives in the public realm.

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Introduction: The Post-Creation Life of Monuments and Memorials,

1. Following Father's Footsteps: Slavery, Imperialism and the William Ewart Gladstone Memorial Statue in Liverpool City Centre

2. Problematical Benefactors and Founding Fathers: Negotiating Sculptures of MT Steyn and JH Marais at South African Universities

3. Recasting Columbus: Local Contestations Against the Monumentalization of Settler Colonialism

4. "Decolonizing the Streets!" of California through the Removal of Junípero Serra Monuments and Statues

5. A Decolonial and Pedagogic Fall on Tulcan Hill: Between Recasting Public Memory and Place, and Recovering History and Commemoration

6. The Politics of Erasure: De-Commemorating "Comfort Women" in the Philippines

7. Saving Communist Monuments in the Context of De-Communisation in Ukraine: An Examination of Conflicting Narratives

8. From Civil to Culture War: Confederate Statues and Statutes in Nashville, Tennessee

9. (Re) claiming Public Memory: Confederate Monuments and Memorials as Sites of Contestation in the American South

10. Recontextualizing a Campus Monument of George Washington through Collaborative Engagement in the Arts

11. "The Disparity Between Us": Rochester's Frederick Douglass Memorial and its Inscription on the 21st-Century Landscape

12. Digital Lieux de Mémoire and Milieux de Mémoire: Josephine de Beauharnais and the Digital Afterlife of Toppled Statues

13. Monuments Cast Shadows: Remembering and Forgetting the 'Dead Survivors' of Nazi Persecution in Swedish Cemeteries

14. Sono Persone | Ata Janë Njerëz 8.8.1991: Public Mementos and the Political Agency of Absence Deliberation: The Remembrance of Things Cast