Reading Monuments: A Comparative Study of Monuments in Poznań And Strasbourg from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

ISBN-13: 9783631676752 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 216 str.

Malgorzata Praczyk

Opis

The book tells the story of monuments in Strasbourg and Poznan. It focuses on its material shape, the problem of affect, the work of memory and its political uses. The research shows how memorials reflect the social understanding of basic questions such as perception of nature, gender issue, commemoration or the image of those who are in power.

Spis treści

Introduction

The Shape of Monuments

Space and Place

Monument as a Thing

Monuments from a Gender Perspective

A Bio-graphical Attempt

Monuments and Politics

Politics of Memory

Identity: From Regional Politics to National Politics

Monuments and Affect

Veneration

Demolition

Supplements

Conclusion

List of Figures

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Malgorzata Praczyk is a historian. She works at the Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). She is the author and editor of books concerning monuments, environmental memory and local history. Her interests focus mainly on memory studies, public spaces, environmental history and posthumanism.