This book critically explores monuments, delving into their significance within colonial, gender and class realms through theory and real-world case studies. This book challenges the conventional notion of monuments, advocating for an intersectional materialist approach to memory theory and a more radical engagement with heritage. Tracing the roots of monumentality to racial capitalism, the book highlights the contemporary implications of this concept. This book offers essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the complex intersections of memory and heritage in contemporary society.
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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