Monumenter og mot-monumenter
In: Nytt norsk tidsskrift, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 141-154
ISSN: 1504-3053
In: Nytt norsk tidsskrift, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 141-154
ISSN: 1504-3053
The article uses mixed methods to explore the politics of memory surrounding the Stalin monument in Gori, Georgia, which was removed by the government in 2010. We employ bivariate and multivariate statistics to analyze people's preferences in Georgia concerning the monument's fate using socio-demographic, socio-economic, spatial, and political variables, identifying six factors as offering explanatory power: gender, age, place, socialization, education, and attitudes toward Vladimir Putin. We identify three main narratives in the qualitative data analysis: the desire to continue displaying the monument somewhere; the futility of monument battles; and the appeal to democratic principles in deciding these cases.
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Monuments are to something; people, events, memories, achievements, or tragedies. They are meant to freeze the moment of the builder and save it for the future. Monuments are an attempted cryogenesis, but monuments that preserve the past sever themselves from the present. They are cryogenic. They can be viewed, but are frozen behind the glass of time. All but the most potent of artifacts will fade at these low temps. Their relevance diminishes until they undergo a transmutation from an intentional object into a historical artifact. These historic monuments are worthy of our suspicion. Do they replicate or preserve what they claim to? Is the preserved pure or has it been altered without our knowledge? Is the monumentalized just a story we've been told.
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In: Tikal reports 33,A
In: University Museum monograph 44
In: Heritage and Identity v.5
In: Heritage and identity : issues in cultural heritage protection volume 5
In: Heritage and Identity Ser.
"Syria's monuments : their survival and destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. It examines travellers' accounts, mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries, which describe religious buildings and housing in numbers and quality unknown elsewhere. The book charts the reasons why monuments lived or died, varying from earthquakes and desertification to neglect and re-use, and sets the political and social context for the Empire's transformation toward a modern state, provoked by Western trade and example. An epilogue assesses the impact of the recent civil war on the state of the monuments, and strategies for their resurrection, with plentiful references and web links"--Provided by publisher
In: Xtreme facts: history
Lighting the Way -- Monument or Memorial -- First, By George -- Abe for the Ages -- Hope Carved in Stone -- These Ladies Won't Be Forgotten -- Heads Up in the Black Hills -- A Green, Growing Monument -- Reaching to the Sky -- A Castle in a Cliff -- On Guard for 400 Years -- Remember the Arizona.
This article deals with the purpose of monuments, both sculptural and architectural. At issue is the assessment of the congruence between the aesthetic design and material expression, and the ethical or ideological meaning of monuments. Historical examples have been selected from the category of architectural structures and statues representing defunct ideologies. Such structures are often neglected, vandalised, destroyed, toppled, appropriated or recycled by rival groups. The discussion also focuses on two proposed monuments, both of which are intended to honour the victims of past events inspired by ideological bias. An attempt is made to solve the problem ofremembering the past in ways other than the erection of monumental constructions intended to celebrate past or present political ideologies or heroes.
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In: International review of the Red Cross: humanitarian debate, law, policy, action, Band 99, Heft 906, S. 937-957
ISSN: 1607-5889
AbstractThe role normally played by monuments in conflict is that of passive and innocent observers, occasionally drawn into the fighting through their locations. In the Syrian conflict, monuments have been more deliberately used as pawns, as ideological weapons and as favoured strongpoints for combatants. The resulting damage to historical sites, particularly to the monumental centres of Aleppo and Palmyra, has been considerable. However, damage to heritage presents a small proportion of the harm compared to the destruction of civilian housing and facilities throughout the country and should not distract us from the irreplaceable loss of innocent life in the fighting. The country's eventual recovery will require the return of refugees to their devastated communities, a precondition for any effort to restore the country's rich monumental heritage.
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Infrastructural monument presents the proceedings of the first of two conferences organized by MIT's new Center for Advanced Urbanism around the biennial theme of infrastructure. Held in the spring of 2013, the "Infrastructural Monument" conference gathered designers, developers, policy experts, and scholars to address the potential to leverage infrastructure design beyond the realm of transportation of goods and labor into the realm of culture, public space, architecture, and landscape form. In other words, can infrastructure transcend mere practicality and fulfill a role that is profoundly cultural? Can targeted infrastructure projects transform a city from a collection of fragments to one with a common and cohesive regional identity?
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Band 56, Heft 6, S. 312-312
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: Holocaust Monuments and National Memory, S. 15-31
In: Holocaust Monuments and National Memory, S. 32-44