Counter-monuments: the anti-monumental and the dialogic

Stevens, Quentin; Franck, Karen A.; Fazakerley, Ruth

doi:10.1080/13602365.2018.1495914

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“…This focus on material sites, not just as symptoms of wider struggles but as places of memorymaking in themselves, speaks to a growing body of literature on the politics of place within public histories as a means to reclaim historical sites of exclusion for the purposes of making claims for justice in the present (Bendiner-Viani, 2019;Hibberd et al, 2019;Hocking, 2015;Nelson & Olin, 2003;Sergel, 2016). For example, Stevens et al (2018) propose the notion of the "dialogic monument" to describe counter-monuments that contrast "spatial, thematic and experiential relationships to . .…”

Section: Sites Of Conscience: Putting Memory Into Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Place, Memory, and Justice: Critical Perspectives on Sites of Conscience

Lloyd

Steele

2022

Space and Culture

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In disrupting the singularity of official histories and memorials, some scholars, activists, and members of marginalized populations have approached memory as a concept that accommodates a multiplicity of subjugated experiences, knowledges, and narratives of place and event, and thus gives rise to a set of memory practices that serve as useful tools for anti-oppression and social justice activism. For these reasons, this memory work has a clear spatial dimension and focuses on place. One such movement in this vein, referred to as “Sites of Conscience,” forms the focus of this special issue. This editorial introduction to this special issue of Space and Culture takes Sites of Conscience as a prism through which to consider relations between history, memory, politics, temporality, ethics, and justice within a spatial framework. Given the increasing pressures to simplify and “purify” national narratives and to pathologize multiple forms of difference, we urgently need activist scholarship on the salient relations between place, history, memory, memorialization, and social justice.

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Place, Memory, and Justice: Critical Perspectives on Sites of Conscience

Lloyd

Steele

2022

Space and Culture

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“…This is a response to international trends that first emerged in West Germany in the 1980s and a growing preparedness on the part of Australians to recognise historical trauma. In contrast to traditional memorials and monuments that glorify an event, a person or affirm an ideology, this new style of commemorative practice recognises the less celebratory events in a nation's history (Stevens, et al, 2018). The term counter memorial (or counter monument) was coined by James Young, who used it to explore Holocaust memorials constructed by nations to honour the victims of their own crimes (DeTurk, 2017).…”

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Counter memorials and counter monuments in Australia’s commemorative landscape: A systematic literature review

Baguley¹,

Kerby²,

Andersen³

2021

HEJ

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Over the course of the last four decades there has been a growing interest in the development and impact of counter memorials and counter monuments. While counter memorial and monument practices have been explored in Europe and the United States, relatively little research has been conducted in the Australian context. This systematic literature review examines the current state of scholarship by exploring what form counter monuments and memorials have taken and what events they have focussed on. A total of 134 studies met the selection criteria and were included in the final review. The major factors identified that have impacted on the development of the counter memorial and monument genre in Australia are international and domestic influences, historical, political and social-cultural events in Australia, the socio-political agenda of various individuals or organisations, and the aesthetics of the counter memorials and monuments themselves. The review found that Australia has a diverse and active counter memorial and monument genre, with commemorative practices honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, victims of human made and natural disasters, the experiences of asylum seekers, and the histories and experiences of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities.

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“…In a more explicit rejection of the memorial, other interventions have taken on different commemorative spaces where all of the assumptions and design choices of the state-sponsored project can be questioned or at least approached radically differently. In this sense, they are countermonuments or "dialogic memorials" (Stevens, Franck, and Fazakerley 2012) in that they react to the specific shortcomings and values of another memorial by creating alternative public spaces.…”

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Memory Activism and Mexico’s War on Drugs: Countermonuments, Resistance, and the Politics of Time

Alonso

Nienass

2021

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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The widespread violence in Mexico by state and nonstate actors since the government launched a military strategy against drug cartels in 2006 has generated demands for justice, including spaces of mourning and commemoration that recognize hundreds of thousands of Mexican nationals and migrants from other countries who have been killed or disappeared. Creating memorial spaces for ongoing forms of violence whose perpetrators and victims are hard to define has proven difficult from a bureaucratic, political, and aesthetic perspective. This article examines and contrasts three commemorative and transformative memorial interventions to show that in a context that lacks a clear transition and access to justice, memory activists respond to the state in a playing field that is not simply concerned with a politics of memory—who gets to decide how to remember the past—but with delineating the past from both the present and the future in the first place: a politics of time.

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Counter-monuments: the anti-monumental and the dialogic

Cited by 21 publications

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Place, Memory, and Justice: Critical Perspectives on Sites of Conscience

Place, Memory, and Justice: Critical Perspectives on Sites of Conscience

Counter memorials and counter monuments in Australia’s commemorative landscape: A systematic literature review

Memory Activism and Mexico’s War on Drugs: Countermonuments, Resistance, and the Politics of Time

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