Keep them, counter them or tear them down? Statues, monuments and the smoothing over of historical injustices

Title: Keep them, counter them or tear them down? Statues, monuments and the smoothing over of historical injustices
Creator: Gapps, Stephen
Relation: History Australia Vol. 18, Issue 4, p. 830-836
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2021.1991817
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2021
Description: Placing a new interpretive plaque on an old monument or popping it into a museum is often held up by historians as a satisfactory resolution to awkward history. But this defence of out dated monuments as heritage smooths over past historical injustices rather than confronts them. It also offers a way to defend other yet to be contested monuments. This essay responds to contributions to the contextualisation of the Statue Wars presented in this issue and how these historians address such flashpoints of history.
Subject: statue wars; historical reenactment; monuments; heritage; performance
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1492510
Identifier: uon:53357
Identifier: ISSN:1449-0854
Language: eng
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