Transforming problematic commemorations through vandalism

Lim, Chong-Ming

doi:10.1080/17449626.2021.1873165

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“…Furthermore, defacement can constitute a form of artistic counterspeech. It transforms the original commemoration by altering its meaning, while physically preserving it (Dixon, 2022; Lim, 2020b). Some alterations to commemorations – such as taking monuments down from their pedestal – can remove their “monumentality”, and potentially change the views that they express (Shapshay, 2021).…”

Section: Responses To Objectionable Commemorationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Seventh, while a minority of scholars have started to explore commemorations and solutions in non‐Western countries – e.g. Korea (Yun, 2021), China (Lim, 2020b), and Taiwan (Lai, 2020, 2022) – very little engagement with non‐Western philosophical traditions has taken place (one noticeable example is Harris, 2023). We believe that more engagement with examples, solutions, and traditions outside the dominant philosophical literature and western politics will enrich our theorisation, and even help us come up with better solutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Objectionable Commemorations: Ethical and Political Issues

Lim,

Lai

2024

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The term, "objectionable commemorations”, refers to a broad category of public artefacts – such as, and especially, memorials, monuments and statues – that are regarded as morally problematic in virtue of what or whom they honour. In this regard, they are a special class of public artefacts that are subject to public contestation. In this paper, we survey the general ethical and political issues on this topic. First, we categorise the arguments on offer in the literature, concerning the objectionable nature of such commemorations. Second, we review common political responses to objectionable commemorations. Finally, we identify fruitful areas for further philosophical inquiry on this topic.

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Objectionable Commemorations: Ethical and Political Issues

Lim,

Lai

2024

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“…Moreover, this motivation for reconceptualization is rendered unnecessary in light of recent work that seeks to justify uncivil disobedience without expanding the conception of civil disobedience (Delmas 2018;Lai 2019;Lim 2021). For instance, philosophers have defended the justifiability of radical and uncivil acts such as doxing (also known as doxxing) (Barry 2021;Barry 2022), vandalism (Lai 2020;Lim 2020a;Lim 2020b), rioting (Pasternak 2019), attacking public officials (Brennan 2018), and even revolution (Kapelner 2019).…”

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Environmental Activism and the Fairness of Costs Argument for Uncivil Disobedience

Lai¹,

Lim²

2023

J. of the Am. Philos. Assoc.

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Social movements often impose nontrivial costs on others against their wills. Civil disobedience is no exception. How can social movements in general, and civil disobedience in particular, be justifiable despite this apparent wrong-making feature? We examine an intuitively plausible account—it is fair that everyone should bear the burdens of tackling injustice. We extend this fairness-based argument for civil disobedience to defend some acts of uncivil disobedience. Focusing on uncivil environmental activism—such as ecotage (sabotage with the aim of protecting the environment)—we argue that some acts of uncivil disobedience can be morally superior to their civil counterparts, when and because such acts target people who are responsible for environmental threats. Indeed, insofar as some acts of uncivil disobedience can more accurately target responsible people, they can better satisfy the demands of fairness compared to their civil counterparts. In some circumstances, our argument may require activists to engage in uncivil disobedience even when civil disobedience is available.

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“…Algunos autores han replanteado conceptos como el de vandalismo (Lai 2020;Lim 2020). En la Guía práctica sobre estatuas y monumentos conmemorativos coloniales, publicada por Asociación canadiense para la conservación y la restauración de los bienes culturales (CAC-CAPC 2021), se denominan intervenciones a las actuaciones sobre estatuas coloniales con pintura, mensajes, herramientas, etc.…”

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La conservación y restauración del patrimonio negativo

Barros García,

Taberner Sanchis

2023

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Este artículo se centra en el problema del patrimonio negativo, es decir de aquellos bienes culturales que son completamente rechazados como tales por una parte significativa de la sociedad, aunque sí son considerados como patrimonio por otra parte (por ejemplo, el patrimonio franquista). En especial, se considera el problema de su conservación-restauración. Esta cuestión está vinculada a cómo se debe valorar el deterioro, a la necesidad de participación por parte de la sociedad en la toma de decisiones y a la función que pueden tener instituciones como los museos en la conservación y resignificación de este patrimonio complejo y ambivalente. Una cuestión clave es que los criterios que se vayan a seguir para la restauración de una determinada pieza solamente pueden formalizarse tras establecer cuál debe ser el significado, valor y función de la pieza objeto de la controversia.

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Transforming problematic commemorations through vandalism

Cited by 9 publications

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Objectionable Commemorations: Ethical and Political Issues

Objectionable Commemorations: Ethical and Political Issues

Environmental Activism and the Fairness of Costs Argument for Uncivil Disobedience

La conservación y restauración del patrimonio negativo

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