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Today’s urgent inequality and environmental crises mean that more, not fewer, students should be studying history.
Demands to remove, or preserve, the statues polarize communities, rather than building a shared future.
The political metamorphosis of Louis Riel illustrates one of the most paradoxical aspects of nationalism: how former enemies can be transformed into compatriots.
As anti-racism protests take aim at statues of slave owners and racist figures, Canada needs to reassess how it remembers its past.
Monuments are testaments to how a society wants to remember. Now is the time to ask which monuments can withstand introspection. Artists are opening those conversations – sometimes hilariously.
Statues and monuments have been used to present a revisionist history in which empire was great while omitting the violence they subvertly celebrate.
The vandalism of colonial statues is an expression of political protest against the celebration of settler colonialism in Canada.
We might think of sporting statues commemorating great players. But three new statues are showing us they can commemorate great cultural moments, too.
Where do old Confederate statues go when they die? The former Soviet bloc countries could teach the US something about dealing with monuments from a painful past.
Colossal public monuments to Hinduism are going up across India, sending an ominous message to the country’s 260 million religious minorities.
Statues to divisive figures are increasingly becoming the target of protest and vandalism.
Standing 240m tall, the Statue of Unity celebrates India’s development. But jarringly, it towers over a divisive and environmentally damaging dam project.
Removing statues of historical figures may be important symbolic statements when it comes to reconciliation, but action on important Indigenous issues like land claims and education are needed more.
Over the course of human history, symbols and monuments have invoked violent impulses and destruction.
Australia has more than 200 Big Things, from the heritage-listed Pineapple to a giant Captain Cook. What are we to do with these structures as they age and decay? And should we be building new ones?
Many of our public commemorations honour people and incidents that brought great harm to others. We need to look at what that says about us, and how we build more inclusive public memorials.
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it’s better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
A scholar of southern politics finds inspiration in an unexpected place.
September is celebrated as heritage month in South Africa. How to get it right? A revisit to a national newspaper’s decade-old, ambitious project is a good yardstick to use.
Top contributors
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Reader in Law, Cardiff University
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Professor of Heritage, University of Kent
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Senior Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management/ Adjunct Associate Professor, University of South Australia
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Research Fellow, Heritage Destruction Specialist, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in History, specialising in built heritage and material culture, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer Department of African Studies and Linguistics, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of Geography, Columbus State University
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Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, The University of Western Australia
