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ReligionsSacral historical monuments are primarily places of prayer, but also objects performing numerous other functions. These are public goods, including cultural goods that build national identity.
Janina Beata Kotlińska +2 more
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Commemoration of an Epoch: Monuments to the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States
Panorama, 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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Formation of monument protection activities in Soviet Belarus in the years of «thaw» (1953–1968)
Журнал 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
Victoria 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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The Ethics of Racist Monuments [PDF]
, 2018 In this chapter we focus on the debate over publicly-maintained racist monuments as it manifests in the mid-2010s Anglosphere, primarily in the US (chiefly regarding the over 700 monuments devoted to the Confederacy), but to some degree also in Britain ...
Demetriou, Dan, Wingo, Ajume
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A Case for Removing Confederate Monuments [PDF]
, 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]
, 2018 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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Confluenze, 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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Identity Crises and Confusions: Metamorphosis Constantiniana
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2022 Public monuments are the materialization of historical events or persons chosen to be remembered by a society, official factors of collective and cultural memory, elements of the chosen identity and the ways in which the community aims to be perceived ...
Tatjana B. Cvjetićanin
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Spatiality of Public Monuments In Public Spaces.
The International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention, 2016 A monument is a building, column, statue, etc. built to remind people of a famous person or event (Hornby, 2010). In the context of this discourse, theoretically and practically, the term “Public Monument” denotes any work of sculpture which is designed for and sited in a space accessible to the general public.
Cyril S Kpodo +2 more
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