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Books

Public Memory of Slavery: : victims and perpetrators in the South Atlantic by Ana Lucia Araujo
Call Number: Langson Library HT1331 .A73 2010
ISBN: 9781604977141
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
"an important book for collections in slavery studies, memory studies, Brazilian and Latin American studies, ethnic studies, cultural anthropology, African studies and African Diaspora."
Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory by Francis X. Blouin (Editor); William G. Rosenberg (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780472026722
Publication Date: 2011-03-02
"The essays in this book conceive of archives not simply as historical repositories but as a complex of structures, processes, and epistemologies situated at a critical point of the intersection between scholarship, cultural practices, politics, and technologies."
Dimensions of Heritage and Memory:: Multiple Europes and the Politics of Crisis by Gönül Bozoglu; Christopher Whitehead; Susannah Eckersley; Mads Daugbjerg
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780429958465
Publication Date: 2019-07-23
“explores how different understandings of and attachments to the European past produce different 'Europes' in the present, accounting for today's tense social and political relations.”
Cultures of Commemoration: : the politics of war, memory, and history in the Mariana Islands by Keith L. Camacho
Call Number: Langson Library D744.7.M37 C36 2011
ISBN: 9780824835460
Publication Date: 2011-06-01
"demonstrates that the past is made meaningful and at times violent by competing cultures of American, Chamorro, and Japanese commemorative practices."
Memorial Mania:public feeling in America by Erika Doss
Call Number: Langson Library E159 .D67 2012
ISBN: 9780226159416
Publication Date: 2012-05-14
the author shows how the "desire to memorialize the past disposes itself to individual anniversaries and personal grievances, to stories of tragedy and trauma, and to the social and political agendas of diverse numbers of Americans. "
The Los Angeles Plaza: sacred and contested space by William David Estrada; Devra Weber (Foreword by)
Call Number: Langson Library F869.L87 L67 2008
ISBN: 9780292717558
Publication Date: 2008-04-15
"The author contributes to the growing historiography of Los Angeles by providing a groundbreaking analysis of the original core of the city that covers a long span of time, space, and social relations. He examines the impact of change on the lives of ordinary people in a specific place, and how this change reflects the larger story of the city."
Class, Culture and Space: the Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in South Thailand by Alexander Horstmann
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9783839400517
Publication Date: 2015-09-25
“in the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements…Exploring the making of class, culture and space, the production and consumption of culture is understood as work which involves the constant negotiation of boundaries”
European Cultural Memory Post-89 by Conny Mithander (Volume Editor); John Sundholm (Volume Editor); Adrian Velicu (Volume Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9789401208895
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
“the first comprehensive mapping of how practices of cultural memory in post-communist countries and other late newcomers to the European Union have been affected due to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism.”
Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture by Laszlo Muntean (Editor); Liedeke Plate (Editor); Anneke Smelik (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781315472140
Publication Date: 2016-12-08
"Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mémoire but are integral to memory. Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture."
Collective Memory of Political Events: social psychological perspectives by James W. Pennebaker (Editor); Dario Paez (Editor); Dar¡o Paez (Editor); Bernard Rim, (Editor)
Call Number: Langson Library BF378.S65 C65 1997
ISBN: 0805821821
Publication Date: 1997-02-01
"This book brings together an international group of researchers who have been empirically studying some basic tenets of collective memory."
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves : race, war, and monument in nineteenth-century America by Kirk Savage
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780691184524
Publication Date: 2018-07-31
"explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces--specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America."
Monument wars : Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the transformation of the memorial landscape by Kirk Savage
Call Number: Langson Library F203.5.M2 S38 2009
ISBN: 9780520256545
Publication Date: 2009-11-02
The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is “a great public space, as essential a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon,” according to architecture critic Paul Goldberger, but few realize how recent, fragile, and contested this achievement is. In Monument Wars, Kirk Savage tells the Mall's engrossing story―its historic plan, the structures that populate its corridors, and the sea change it reveals regarding national representation.
Erasing Public Memory: race, aesthetics, and cultural amnesia in the Americas by Joseph A. Young, Jana Evans Braziel
Call Number: Langson Library E29.A1 E73 2007
ISBN: 9780881460582
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
"The axis of race in the Western canon, uninflected and theorized, the goal of Erasing Public Memory is a move toward the de-reification of race as a priori ground of Western knowledge."
California vieja : culture and memory in a modern American place by Phoebe S. Kropp
Call Number: Langson Library F862 .K76 2006
ISBN: 0520243641
Publication Date: 2006-06-21
This book "is a compelling demonstration of how memory can be more than nostalgia. In Southern California, the Spanish past became a catalyst for the development of the region’s built environment and public culture, and a civic narrative that still serves to marginalize Mexican and Indian residents."
Performative Monuments:: The Rematerialisation of Public Art. Rethinking Art’s Histories by Mechtild Widrich
Call Number: NX456.5.P38 W54 2014
ISBN: 9780719091636
Publication Date: 2014-05-31
"This book answers one of the most puzzling questions in contemporary art: how did performance artists of the '60s and '70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political establishment, become the foremost monument builders of the '80s, '90s and today? Not by selling out, nor by making self-undermining monuments."

Articles

Autry, Robyn. “Elastic Monumentality? The Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial and Counterpublic Historical Space.” Social Identities, vol. 25, no. 2, Mar. 2019, pp. 169–185. doi:10.1080/13504630.2017.1376278.

Blain, Keisha N., “Destroying Confederate monuments isn’t ‘erasing’ history. It’s learning from it,” Washington Post, June 19, 2020. Available online.

Blair, Kelsey, et al. “Memory, Milestones, and Monuments: A Peripatetic Exploration of the West Side of UBC Campus.” Canadian Theatre Review, no. 174, Spring 2018, pp. 31–37. doi:10.3138/ctr.174.006.

Droth, Martina. "Sculpture: Method, Practice, Theory". In Oxford Bibliographies Online-Art History. Accessed on 10 Feb. 2021. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199920105/obo-9780199920105-0125.xml.

Frei, Cheryl Jiménez. “Columbus, Juana and the Politics of the Plaza: Battles over Monuments, Memory and Identity in Buenos Aires.” Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, Aug. 2019, pp. 607–638. doi:10.1017/S0022216X18001086.

Grossman, James, “Whose Memory? Whose Monuments? History, Commemoration, and the Struggle for an Ethical Past,” Perspectives on History, February 1, 2016. Available online.

GUTTORMSEN, TORGRIM SNEVE. “Valuing Immigrant Memories as Common Heritage: The Leif Erikson Monument in Boston.” History & Memory, vol. 30, no. 2, Fall/Winter2018 2018, pp. 79–115. doi:10.2979/histmemo.30.2.04.

Kalinowska, Malgorzata. “Monuments of Memory: Defensive Mechanisms of the Collective Psyche and Their Manifestation in the Memorialization Process.” Journal of Analytical Psychology, vol. 57, no. 4, Sept. 2012, pp. 425–444. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5922.2012.01984.x.

Luke, Timothy W. “The Ambiguities of Memory and Ambivalences of Monuments: Confederate Memorials in America.” Telos, vol. 2017, no. 181, Winter 2017, pp. 218–222. doi:10.3817/1217181218.

Maxson, J.David. “‘Second Line to Bury White Supremacy’: Take ’Em Down Nola, Monument Removal, and Residual Memory.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 106, no. 1, Feb. 2020, pp. 48–71. doi:10.1080/00335630.2019.1704428.

Morgan, David. “Soldier Statues and Empty Pedestals: Public Memory in the Wake of the Confederacy.” Material Religion, vol. 14, no. 1, Mar. 2018, pp. 153–157. doi:10.1080/17432200.2017.1418231.

Ndletyana, Mcebisi, and Denver A. Webb. “Social Divisions Carved in Stone or Cenotaphs to a New Identity? Policy for Memorials, Monuments and Statues in a Democratic South Africa.” International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, Feb. 2017, pp. 97–110. doi:10.1080/13527258.2016.1246464.

O’Brien, Jean M., and Lisa Blee. “What Is a Monument to Massasoit Doing in Kansas City? The Memory Work of Monuments and Place in Public Displays of History.” Ethnohistory, vol. 61, no. 4, Fall 2014, pp. 635–653. doi:10.1215/00141801-2717804.

Preda, Caterina. “The Transnational ‘Memorialization’ of Monumental Socialist Public Works in Eastern Europe.” International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, May 2020, pp. 401–421. doi:10.1177/1367877919885950.

Quentin, Stevens, Karen A. Franck, and Ruth Fazakerley. “Counter-Monuments: The Anti-Monumental and the Dialogic.” The Journal of Architecture 17.6 (2012): 951–972. DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2012.746035.

Saul, Gwendolyn W., and Diana E. Marsh. “In Whose Honor? On Monuments, Public Spaces, Historical Narratives, and Memory.” Museum Anthropology, vol. 41, no. 2, Fall 2018, pp. 117–120. doi:10.1111/muan.12178.

Sheehan, Rebecca, and Jennifer Speights-Binet. “Negotiating Strategies in New Orleans’s Memory-Work: White Fragility in the Politics of Removing Four Confederate-Inspired Monuments.” Journal of Cultural Geography, vol. 36, no. 3, Oct. 2019, pp. 346–367. doi:10.1080/08873631.2019.1641996.

Stevens, Quentin, and Gabriele de Seta. “Must Zhongzheng Fall?: Varied Responses to Memorial Statues of Taiwan’s Former Dictator.” City, vol. 24, no. 3/4, June 2020, pp. 627–641. doi:10.1080/13604813.2020.1784593.

Tsuchiya, Akiko. “Monuments and Public Memory: Antonio López y López, Slavery, and the Cuban-Catalan Connection.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 41, no. 5, Dec. 2019, pp. 479–500. doi:10.1080/08905495.2019.1657735.

Williams, Caroline Randall, “You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body is a Confederate Monument,” The New York Times, June 26, 2020. Available online.