Redefining Monuments
Materialist Memory Theories and Radical Heritage Practices
Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict;
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Product details:
- Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Publication 3 October 2025
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031863813
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations VI, 332 p. 28 illus. Illustrations, black & white 700
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This book undertakes a critical examination of monuments, heritage, and memory, analysing their intersections with colonial histories, gender dynamics, and class structures. By challenging conventional conceptions of monuments, memory, and heritage, this work advocates for a materialist approach that rigorously critiques hegemonic and authorised discourses. It seeks to reconceptualise these phenomena by proposing alternative paradigms and radical practices that offer new perspectives on their construction, preservation, and interpretation.
The volume is structured into two primary sections: a theoretical component that develops a materialist critique of the subject, alongside innovative frameworks for its reinterpretation, and an empirical component grounded in concrete experiences derived from radical practices involving the construction, preservation, and demolition of monuments. Situated within contemporary debates surrounding the future of monuments and the ongoing culture wars, Redefining Monuments provides an indispensable resource for scholars and readers invested in counter-hegemonic interpretations of monuments. The work aims to advance the development of a materialist theory and methodology for understanding memory and heritage, offering a critical contribution to these fields.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The radical redefinition of monuments.- Chapter 2: The ideological conquest of history; Or what people do when they erect, demolish and occupy monuments.- Chapter 3: The Stones of Politics.- Chapter 4: Statues of enslavers and their role in the culture wars.- Chapter 5: Materialist Approaches to Monument-Making in Socialist Yugoslavia.- Chapter 6: Counter monuments and the ideology of memory.- Chapter 7: Contributions to a materialist critique of cultural heritage.- Chapter 8: For Marxist Intersectional Memory Studies.- Chapter 9: The landscape of memories of the Pan-American highway in Chile.- Chapter 10: Leninplatz, an unpleasant corpse.- Chapter 11: Perplexity and ambivalence: Making sense of the people’s ‘relationship’ to the Joshua Nkomo statue in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.- Chapter 12: Institutional and Non-institutional Monuments as Reflections of Political Antagonisms in Athens.- Chapter 13: Toxic Monuments in Spain.- Chapter 14: The Berlin Wall: an unintentional anti-fascist monument.- Chapter 15: Preliminary notes for a theory of iconoclasm as a mechanism of ideological recognition.
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