Agonistic interventions into public commemorative art: An innovative form of counter-memorial practice?

Cento Bull, Anna and Clarke, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8509-3194 2021. Agonistic interventions into public commemorative art: An innovative form of counter-memorial practice? Constellations 28 (2) , pp. 192-206. 10.1111/1467-8675.12484

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Abstract

In light of recent controversies around the removal or modification of public commemorative art, such as memorials and monuments, this paper interrogates the value of competing approaches to counter-memorial practice using the framework of agonistic memory. It argues that much counter-memorial practice today, as it relates to historical memory, is dominated by a “cosmopolitan” mode that fails to offer a convincing response to the rise of right-wing populism and its instrumentalization of conflicts over public commemorative art. The article investigates two case studies of counter-memorial interventions that focus on the memory of fascism in Europe today and seeks to identify and assess emergent agonistic practices.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Modern Languages
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DD Germany D History General and Old World > DG Italy
Additional Information:	This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	1351-0487
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	11 December 2019
Date of Acceptance:	19 November 2019
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2024 03:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/127437

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