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La memoria vindicativa y sus usos. Monumentos a las víctimas de la violencia política en el Montevideo contemporáneo

open access: yesConfluenze, 2010
The present article explores the relationship between the vindictive memory of some specific socio-historical groups (which has suffered the effects of several kinds of political violence) and the construction of monuments devoted to remember certain ...
Juan Andrés Bresciano
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“Little of Artistic Merit?”: The Art of the American South

open access: yesPanorama, 2020
As Americanists, reckoning with the South might also help us to understand its diverse regional histories and reflect upon broader national contemporary discourses, both from within and without.
Naomi Slipp
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Formation of monument protection activities in Soviet Belarus in the years of «thaw» (1953–1968)

open access: yesЖурнал Белорусского государственного университета: История, 2021
The author analyses the change in state policy, as well as the revival of public initiative in the field of protection of cultural monuments, as a result of the liberalisation of social and political life in Soviet Belarus during the «thaw».
Alexander A. Huzhalouski
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Public Order, Public Protest and Public Monuments

open access: yesVictoria University of Wellington Law Review, 2023
Much public protest in recent years has been directed towards monuments to controversial figures who have profited from the slave trade or other exploitative activities. The most striking example in the United Kingdom has been the fate of the four individuals accused of damaging the statue to Edward Colston in Bristol as part of a Black Lives Matter ...
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One Monument, One Town, Two Ideologies: The Monument to the Victory of Bolzano-Bozen

open access: yesPublic History Review, 2018
This article offers a critical reading of the first major attempt to publicly come to terms with the presence of an invasive and ideologically charged fascist monument in the border town of Bolzano-Bozen, in South Tyrol, Italy. The ‘Monument to Victory’,
Malcolm Angelucci, Stefano Kerschbamer
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Commemoration of an Epoch: Monuments to the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States

open access: yesPanorama, 2022
This data-driven analysis unearths monuments that have received little attention, reveals an evolving narrative of the public commemoration of women, and demonstrates how the methods of the digital humanities can enhance the study of art.
Sierra Rooney
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Stonehenge remodelled [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We are pleased to present the latest account of the sequence of burial and construction at the site of Stonehenge, deduced by its most recent excavators and anchored in time by the application of Bayesian radiocarbon modelling.
Darvill, Timothy   +3 more
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A Case for Removing Confederate Monuments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
A particularly important, pressing, philosophical question concerns whether Confederate monuments ought to be removed. More precisely, one may wonder whether a certain group, viz.
Timmerman, Travis
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Whose Lands? Which Public? Trump\u27s National Monument Proclamations and the Shape of Public-Lands Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
President Trump issued a proclamation in December 2017 purporting to remove two million acres in southern Utah from national monument status, radically shrinking the Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument and splitting the Bears Ears National ...
Purdy, Jedediah
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Build n burn: using fire as a tool to evoke, educate and entertain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The visceral nature of fire was exploited in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Britain by the burning down of timber buildings and monuments, as well as the cremation of the dead. These big fires would have created memories, perhaps even ‘flashbulb
Brophy, Kenneth   +2 more
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