De-Commemoration: Removing Statues and Renaming Places

CONTENTS\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction. Making Sense of De-Commemoration\nPart I. De-Commemoration after Regime Change\nChapter 1. Baptizing and Unbaptizing in Algeria: From French Colonization to National Independence\nChapter 2. Street Renaming in Postsocialist Romania: A Quantitative Analysis of Toponymic Change\nChapter 3. “Th e First Bolshevik Leaves Riga”: Th e De-Commemoration of Vladimir I. Lenin in Riga, Latvia (1987–1991)\nChapter 4. “In Memory of the Fallen . . .” But for How Long? Th e De-Commemoration of German War Memorials in Poland after 1945\nChapter 5. Naming to Erase, Renaming to Restore: (Re)Indigenizing the Landscape\nChapter 6. Removing Rhodes from His Pedestal: De-Commemoration in Postcolonial South Africa\nChapter 7. Contrasting Fates of Lenin Statues in Ukraine and Russia\nChapter 8. Beyond the Monument: Unmaking the Valley of the Fallen in Contemporary Spain\nPart II. De-Commemoration and Societal Transformation\nChapter 9. Renaming and the Relationship between Colonized and Colonizer: Th e Role of Commemoration within Dual Place Names in New Zealand\nChapter 10. De-Canonization of the Soviet Past: Abject, Kitsch, and Memory\nChapter 11. Diversifying Public Commemorations in Cape Town and Copenhagen\nChapter 12. De-Commemoration as Healing and Confl ict: Canada and Its Colonial Past and Present\nChapter 13. Killing Pedro de Valdivia Again: De-Commemoration of the Past and De-Neoliberalization of the Present during the 2019–2020 Chilean Revolt\nChapter 14. De-Commemorating Sound: Controversies about the Reestablishment of the National Anthem in South Korea and Beyond\nChapter 15. Do Commemorations Have an “Expiration Date”? A Case Study from Belgium\nPart III. De-Commemoration to Propel Change\nChapter 16. De-Commemorating Australian Settler Colonialism\nChapter 17. Th e Present Is All Th at Matters: De-Commemoration Practices in Israel\nChapter 18. De-Commemorations and the Unsettled Past in Contemporary Brazil\nChapter 19. Decolonizing Colonial Monuments: Counter-Memory Activism in Madrid and Barcelona\nChapter 20. Transnational Memory Struggles: Guerrilla Remembrances in Colombia and Venezuela in the 2000s\nChapter 21. “Next Stop Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Strasse”: Place Names, De-Commemoration, and Memory Activism in Berlin\nChapter 22. From Decapitation to Destruction: Making Sense of Toppling Statues in Contemporary Martinique\nChapter 23. De-Commemoration in Great Britain\nChapter 24. Th e Role of Nonprofits in De-Commemoration: Th e Southern Poverty Law Center’s Whose Heritage? Report\nPart IV. De-Commemoration as Smoke Screen\nChapter 25. De-Commemoration without Decolonization? Th e Peculiar Case of the Philippines\nChapter 26. Twice Removed: Th e Mystery of Manila’s Missing Comfort Woman Monument\nChapter 27. Counter-Memory and State De-Commemoration: Th e Khavaran Mass Grave in Iran\nChapter 28. Th e Toppling of the Equestrian Statue and the Future of Colonial-Era Memorials in Namibia\nChapter 29. An Unmarked Rebellion: Th e Politics of Forgetting Denmark Vesey\nChapter 30. Exploring the Scope of De-Commemoration: Touring Trafalgar Square in London and Beyond\nPart V. De-Commemoration to Challenge Memory\nChapter 31. From De-Commemoration of Names to Reparative Namescapes: Geographical Case Studies in the United States\nChapter 32. De-Commemoration under the Law: Th e Removal of Statues in France and the United States\nChapter 33. Human Rights and Toppled Statues: Can the European Convention on Human Rights Provide Solutions to De-Commemoration Disputes?\nChapter 34. Re-Commemoration: What Other Stories Can We Tell? Observing Ordinary People Engaging with Monuments in Public Space\nChapter 35. Who Cares about Old Statues and Street Names? Resisting Change and the Protracted Decommunization of Public Space in Poland\nChapter 36. Keeping the Past from Freezing: Augmented Reality and Memories in the Public Space\nChapter 37. De-Commemorating White Supremacy through the Act of Voting\nIndex