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Title:Iconoclastic Ruptures: Black Lives Matter and the cleansing of colonial memory
Authors:ID Kirn, Gal, Univerza v Novi Gorici (Author)
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Language:English
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Typology:1.21 - Polemic, Discussion, Commentary
Organization:UNG - University of Nova Gorica
Abstract:The removal of racist and oppressive pasts through the toppling of monuments standing in the epicentres of colonial and slave dominions, the US, UK and across Europe, has ruffled the feathers of leading conservative politicians, historians and even some ‘liberal’ thinkers and representatives, who claim that historical revisionism should not come with ‘erasure’ and iconoclasm. Conservative discourse calls this activity looting, saying that ‘the mob’ commits violent actions against society, its order and property, in the same way rioters loot our tradition and monumental legacy. As a scholar of partisan, socialist and postsocialist transition, focusing on the postsocialist cleansing of memory, I would like to compare these two historical moments: 1990s postsocialist memorial revisionism with the current iconoclasm of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Keywords:colonial memory, historical revisionism, fall of berlin wall, postsocialism, erasure, poetic justice
Year of publishing:2020
Number of pages:2
Numbering:0
PID:20.500.12556/RUNG-5695 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:26053123 New window
NUK URN:URN:SI:UNG:REP:UOUIAQ2B
Publication date in RUNG:25.08.2020
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