Memory Over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials and Intangible Heritage Issue number 152 (May 2025) Abstract Deadline: August 1, 2023 Co-Edited by Bonita Bennett, Bonny Ibhawoh, Alex Lichtenstein, and Daniel Walkowitz From the removal of Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town, to the toppling of Confederate monuments across the American South, to the dumping of Edward Colston into Bristol harbor, we have recently witnessed profound challenges to the embodiment of national mythmaking in public memorials. Additionally, tearing down old markers of historical memory has been accompanied by the erection of new ones. Globally, popular and grassroots initiatives have rethought statuary, […]
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