Contested Urban Spaces: Monuments, Traces, and Decentered Memories (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Part I: Approaching Contested Urban Memoryscapes
	Chapter 1: Introduction: Contested Memory in Urban Space
		Contribution to Memory Studies: Urban Space, Inequality, and Decentered Remembrance
		Decentered and Decentering Memory in the City
		Book Structure and Chapter Overview
		References
	Chapter 2: (In)visible Monuments. What Makes Monuments Controversial?
		Toppling Monuments—Change in Political Circumstances
		Counter-monuments—Changes in Public and Aesthetic Sensibility
		A New Form of Visibility—Karl Lueger’s Monument in Vienna
		Migration Monuments
		Migration and Nation-building in the United States, Argentina, and Brazil
		Migration as Rupture
		The First “Flight and Migration Monument” in Germany
		The (anti-)colonial Monument in Bremen
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: Australian Welcome Walls and Other Sites of Networked Migrant Memory
		Australian Migration History
		Welcome Walls
		User-Pays Commemoration
		Remembering Hyphenated Australians
		What About the Not-Yet-Hyphenated?
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4: Negotiating Binaries in Curatorial Practice: Modality, Temporality, and Materiality in Cape Town’s Community-led Urban History Museums
		Introduction
		Museums as Part of the South African Memoryscape
		The Modality of Memory: Remembering-forgetting
		The Temporality of Memory: Past-present
		The Materiality of Memory: Absence-presence
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 5: Contesting Sensory Memories: Smithfield Market in London
		Introduction: Memory and the Senses
		The Site
		Interdisciplinary Approach
		Sensory Histories and Memories of Smithfield
		Conclusion: Beyond Sensory Nostalgia
		References
Part II: Decentered Memories
	Chapter 6: Across the Atlantic. Silences and Memories of Nazism in Remote Lands (Eldorado, Misiones)
		The Place, the Photo
		The History
		At a Distance, Silences and Half Words
			The Recognition of Nazism in Town, Past and Present
			Jews in Town. Words Unspoken. Hints and Silences
			The Photo in the Museum, Now
		The Personal Dimension in Academic and Political Life
		Some Closing Remarks
		References
	Chapter 7: [De]colonial Memory Practices in Germany’s Public Space
		German Colonialism and the Coalition Agreement
		A New Humboldt Forum on Old Foundations?
		Bismarck Goes 2021
		“Soft” Colonial Topographies
		Who Belongs?
		Monopolization, Competition, and Relativization
		Prevalent Racist Knowledge in Society
		Colonial Myths
		Monuments from Pre-Democratic Times
		Preventing Atrocities
		References
	Chapter 8: Splinters Between Memory and Globalization: Cosmic Generator Installation by Mika Rottenberg in Münster at Skulptur Projekte 2017
		Introduction
		The Asian Shop: Aspects of a Non-Lieu and Traces
		The Video: The Narrative Node as Kaleidoscope
		Female Service Staff in Their Workplaces
		“Subversive Affirmation” and “Entropy and the New Monuments”
		Conclusion: “Hidden Labor… bringing the front to the back and the back to the front”
		References
Part III: Fallen Monuments
	Chapter 9: The Empty Pedestal: Artistic Practice and Public Space in Luanda
		Art and Urban Space in Luanda
		The Empty Pedestal
		Reworking of the Empty Space on top of the Pedestal
		Rearranging the Remains from the Top of the Pedestal
		Fictionalizing the Remains
		Intervention into the Urban Script
		References
	Chapter 10: They Took Him Away but It Was Like He Was Still Around: Can New York City Move Beyond the Legacy of J. Marion Sims?
		Introduction
		Background History
		The Fame and Infamy of J. Marion Sims
		Engaging in Issues of Race and Memory
		Moving Beyond the Legacy of J. Marion Sims?
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 11: Disgraced Monuments: Burying and Unearthing Lenin and Lyautey
		Introduction
		Commemoration and Remembrance
		Monuments and Heritage
		Statues also Die
		The Afterlife of Fallen Statues
		Conclusion
		References
Part IV: Traces of Violence
	Chapter 12: Urban Memory After War: Ruins and Reconstructions in Post-Yugoslav Cities
		Introduction
		Urban Space and the Memory of War
		Contested Memories of the 1990s Wars in Two Post-Yugoslav Capital Cities
		Dissonant Memories: Monuments and Memorials in Postwar Urban Space
		“Violent Reconstructions”: Intentional Monuments and Contested Memories in Belgrade and Sarajevo
		Ruins: Between Realms of Memory and Places of Amnesia
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 13: Monumentality, Forensic Practices, and the Representation of the Dead: The Debate about the Memory of the Post-Civil War Victims in the Almudena Cemetery, Madrid
		Introduction
		Topography of Victim Memorials: Between Local Mnemonic Designs and Global Aesthetic Circulations
		The Memory Site at La Almudena: The Controversy Over the Memorial
		The Importance of the Names, and the ‘Chequistas’ Dispute
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 14: The Mass Grave and the Memorial. Notes from Mexico on Memory Work as Contestation of Contemporary Terror
		Opening
		Mexican Terror Fields and Memory Agencies
		Memorial Markers at Sites of Extermination
		Memory as Aesthetic Irruption
		Trace, Not Metaphor: Materiality and Imagination
		References
Index