- 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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