This book brings together a collection of essays from scholars and cultural critics working on the meanings of monuments and memorials in the second decade of the twenty-first century, a time of great social and political change.

Preface & IntroductionLaura A. MacalusoSection 1: Monument Culture Leading EssayChapter 1Homage to Charlottesville: The Spanish Civil War and the International Legacy of the U.S. Monuments DebateAlex VernonSection 2: Monument Culture: Land, People and PlaceChapter 2Implications of Erasure in PolynesiaCarmen S. TomfohrdeChapter 3Monuments in Antarctica: Commemoration of Historic Events or Claims for Sovereignty?Ingo HeidbrinkChapter 4Phnom Penh¿s Independence Monument and Vientiane¿s Patuxai: Complex Symbols of Postcolonial Nationhood in Cold War-era Southeast AsiaRoger NelsonChapter 5Enshrining Racial Hierarchy through Settler Commemoration in the American WestCynthia C. PrescottSection 3: Monument Culture: Trauma/Violence and Reconciliation/ReparationsChapter 6In Defense of Historical Stains: How Clean Approaches to the Past Can Keep Us DirtyDan HaumschildChapter 7Repairing and Reconciling with the Past: El Ojo que Llora and Perüs Public Monuments¿usta Carranza KoChapter 8Ruptures and Continuities in the Post-Apartheid Political and Cultural Landscape: A Reading of South African Monument CultureRunette KrugerChapter 9Beyond Ruins: Borgoñös Barracks and the Struggle Over Memory in Today¿s ChileBasil Abdelrazeq FarrajSection 4: Monument Culture: Migration and IdentityChapter 10Iconoclasm and Imperial Symbols: The Gough and Victoria Monuments in Ireland and the British World, 1880-1990Derek N. BoetcherChapter 11Monuments of Refugee Identity: Pain, Unity and Belonging in Three Monuments of Cappadocian GreeksZeliha Nilüfer Nahya and Saim ÖrnekChapter 12Kindertransports in National and International MemoryAmy WilliamsChapter 13A Cubist Portrait of Christopher Columbus: Studying Monuments as Transcultural WorksChiara GrilliSection 5: Monument Culture: Ambiguities and AlternativesChapter 14Visible Differently: Roni Horn¿s Vatnasafn/Library of Water as MemorialElliot KrasnopolerChapter 15Monuments and Other Things that Change: Several Attempts at Titling a PhotographMasha VlasovaChapter 16Illegal Monuments: Memorials between Crime and State EndorsementNauskiaä El-MeckyChapter 17Transnational Social Media Monuments, Counter Monuments, and the Future of the Nation-StateJohnny AlamSection 6: Monument Culture: Strategies and ActionsChapter 18Citizens as Walking Memorials: Rethinking the Monument Genre in the 21st CenturyTanja SchultChapter 19Exhibiting Spectacle and Recasting Memory: Commemorating the First World War in New ZealandKingsley BairdChapter 20Dealing with a Dictatorial Past: Fascist Monuments and Conflicting Memory in Contemporary ItalyFlaminia BartoliniChapter 21Avoiding Iconoclasm: How the Counter-Monument Could Settle a Monumental DebateScott McDonaldSection 7: Monument Culture Closing EssayChapter 22On Creating a Useable Future: An Introduction to Future MonumentsEvander Price