... Holodomor, Holocaust, and Indigenous human rights violations in the city’s Canadian Museum for Human Rights ( Hankivsky and Dhamoon 2013 ). Unsurprisingly, one of the city’s most complex representational issues is that of Louis Riel. Monuments from different periods portray Riel in vastly different lights...

... by heaven on account of its great sanctity. These remained the predominant narratives about the monument until the Ottoman and British empires renewed the Gate of Mercy (and other sites in the Noble Sanctuary/Temple Mount complex) as a battleground for imperial claims-making. In the nineteenth and twentieth...

...Marjorie Coughlan; Jason Edwards; Greg Sullivan Figure 3. F. W. Pomeroy, Monument to Frederick Temple (1905–1906), St Paul’s Cathedral. Photo: Pantheons: Sculpture at St Paul’s Cathedral research project/St Paul’s Cathedral. Figure 4. J. G. Lough, Monument to Thomas Fanshaw...

... is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Many Confederate monuments were erected during the Jim Crow era, sending symbolic...

...Christine Sypnowich However diverse, monuments have some common aims: to teach, to edify, to connect us with events, traditions or people, in the hope that the past can live on in the present, for the betterment of human beings. We are now well aware, however, that many of the figures honoured...

... in favour of leaving monuments standing: their ostensible educational value. In the third section, I describe monuments as speech acts. In the fourth section, I argue that certain monuments and their attendant speech acts may be productively compared to slurs in their tendency to entrench harmful ideologies...

...Heather A O’Connell The primary evidence in support of a countermovement perspective is drawn from the timing of Confederate monument construction. The peak is in the early 1900s followed by a steady decline, but there is a second spike in the1950s and 1960s ( SPLC 2016 ; Winberry 2015 [1983...

... Confederate monuments in America. It explores her grotesque Christ (manifest in a suburban lawn jockey) that mysteriously acts as a means of grace and effects repentance and reconciliation. It teaches us how to read this racist statuary within the grotesque history of Confederate monuments in the American...

... and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model) Abstract This article provides a definition of monuments and describes their potential for removalist...

...Michael S Merry; Anders Schinkel Consider the potential advantages of a history classroom, and in particular as it concerns discussions of historical monuments: (a) the emotional distance young people usually feel toward the past; (b) the strong retrospective consensus many issues now enjoy...

...Mona B Livholts The etymology of the word monument derives from Latin moneo, monere, which means to remind, to advise or to warn. Thus, when monuments ‘speak’, their embodied presence symbolises events from the past for the purpose of collective remembrance. In her study...

... commemoration monuments memorials social change Symbolically charged public spaces hold significant political and cultural power. As Mukerji ( 2012 :501) argues, “people learn politics from places,” and built environments—from the king’s fortress to the democracy’s capital city—“serve as pedagogical tools...

... of persistent scatterer interferometry techniques for the preventive diagnosis of deformation threatening the structural stability of archaeological monuments and buried structures. ERS-1/2 and RADARSAT-1/2 SAR images were processed with the permanent scatterers InSAR (PSInSAR) and SqueeSAR approaches...

... controversy. This is demonstrated above all by the history of an initiative and subsequent competition to install a monument in her name, which finally resulted in the inauguration of a Denkzeichen (memory marker) by Hans Haacke on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in 2006. The competition triggered debates over her...

... to the stones and by the isolation of bacteria capable of using phenanthrene as sole source of carbon and energy. We suggest that micro-organisms present in building stones are able to transform deposited atmospheric pollutants and to use them for growth. Phenanthrene Stone Biodegradation Monuments Most...