Toppling Things as Memorial Contestation : Spectacle and Affect of Monument Removal /

Toppling Things as Memorial Contestation : Spectacle and Affect of Monument Removal /

Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, monuments became a focal point: protestors toppled or spray-painted them, even danced on them. These politically, visually, and emotionally potent events may have looked instantaneous, yet frequently sprang from years of activism, as well as protracted p...

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Other Authors: El-Mecky, Nausikaä (Editor), Macsotay, Tomas (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race ; 35.

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Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Table of Contents:
  • Thamyris Mission Statement
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  •   Tomas Macsotay and Nausikaä El-Mecky
  • PART 1: Overhauling: an Anatomy of Memorial Contestations
  • 1 Local Origins of a Global Series: the 1990s Wave of Anti-colonial Iconoclasm
  •   Nikolas Orr
  • 2 Commemoration and (Re)Conciliation: Memorial Culture under Apologetic Settler Colonialism in Canada
  •   Seraphine Appel
  • 3 Contemporary Iconoclasm and Affect
  •   Ernst van Alphen
  • 4 Traumatic Monuments: Decolonial Iconoclasms and "Southern" Memories
  •   Rhea Dehn Tutosaus and Miriam Oesterreich
  • 5 To Remove, or Not To Remove, That Is the Question: the Troubled Legacy of Chiang Kai-shek Statues and Memorials in Democratized Taiwan
  •   Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
  • PART 2: Facing: Making a Difference in Memorial Activism
  • 6 A Space of Freedom: Richmond's Robert E. Lee Memorial and the Future of America
  •   David Ehrenpreis
  • 7 Conversations on Black Lives Matter
  •   Tami Sawyer with Stacy Boldrick; Keith Magee with Richard Clay
  • 8 Activist Statement: Down with J. P. Coen
  •   Romy Rondeltap
  • 9 Colonial Reckoning: Reexamining the Slave Past in Catalonia
  •   Gerard Llorens Decesaris and Adrià Enríquez Àlvaro
  • PART 3: Waking: Imaginings of a Post-Monument
  • 10 Dissolution of the Monuments
  •   Paul Grace
  • 11 The Agency of the Void: When a Monument Falls, Absence Transforms into Powerful Presence
  •   Nausikaä El-Mecky
  • 12 Toppling Things: Artistic Approaches and Media Strategies in Dealing with Monuments-Alexandra Pirici, Morehshin Allahyari, Julius von Bismarck & Julian Charrière
  •   Ursula Ströbele
  • 13 Taking a Knee: Permanence, Ritual and the Respect Insurrection
  •   Tomas Macsotay
  • 14 Artist/Activist Statement: In Search of an Aesthetic of Care: Recording BLM Protests and Documenting One's Life in a Time of Reckoning
  •   Ruth Somalo
  • PART 4: Prolonged Engagements: Artistic Testimonies
  • 15 Flesh & Stone: Archives, Bodies and "Deep Time" in Ada Pinkston's LandMarked
  •   Cory Wayman
  • 16 Empty Pedestals or The Aesthetics of Truth
  •   Ada Pinkston
  • 17 Artist Statement: On Disgraced Monuments, their Resignification and the Recovery of Emptied Sites
  •   Krzysztof Wodiczko
  • 18 Epilogue: 2020 Revisited
  •   Tomas Macsotay and Nausikaä El-Mecky
  • Index.