Edited by Laura A. Macaluso

Preface & Introduction
Laura A. Macaluso

Section 1: Monument Culture Leading Essay

Chapter 1
Homage to Charlottesville: The Spanish Civil War and the International Legacy of the U.S. Monuments Debate
Alex Vernon

Section 2: Monument Culture: Land, People and Place

Chapter 2
Implications of Erasure in Polynesia
Carmen S. Tomfohrde

Chapter 3
Monuments in Antarctica: Commemoration of Historic Events or Claims for Sovereignty?
Ingo Heidbrink

Chapter 4
Phnom Penh's Independence Monument and Vientiane's Patuxai: Complex Symbols of Postcolonial Nationhood in Cold War-era Southeast Asia
Roger Nelson

Chapter 5
Enshrining Racial Hierarchy through Settler Commemoration in the American West
Cynthia C. Prescott

Section 3: Monument Culture: Trauma/Violence and Reconciliation/Reparations

Chapter 6
In Defense of Historical Stains: How Clean Approaches to the Past Can Keep Us Dirty
Dan Haumschild

Chapter 7
Repairing and Reconciling with the Past: El Ojo que Llora and Peru's Public Monuments
¿usta Carranza Ko

Chapter 8
Ruptures and Continuities in the Post-Apartheid Political and Cultural Landscape: A Reading of South African Monument Culture
Runette Kruger

Chapter 9
Beyond Ruins: Borgoño's Barracks and the Struggle Over Memory in Today's Chile
Basil Abdelrazeq Farraj

Section 4: Monument Culture: Migration and Identity

Chapter 10
Iconoclasm and Imperial Symbols: The Gough and Victoria Monuments in Ireland and the British World, 1880-1990
Derek N. Boetcher

Chapter 11
Monuments of Refugee Identity: Pain, Unity and Belonging in Three Monuments of Cappadocian Greeks
Zeliha Nilüfer Nahya and Saim Örnek

Chapter 12
Kindertransports in National and International Memory
Amy Williams

Chapter 13
A Cubist Portrait of Christopher Columbus: Studying Monuments as Transcultural Works
Chiara Grilli

Section 5: Monument Culture: Ambiguities and Alternatives

Chapter 14
Visible Differently: Roni Horn's Vatnasafn/Library of Water as Memorial
Elliot Krasnopoler

Chapter 15
Monuments and Other Things that Change: Several Attempts at Titling a Photograph
Masha Vlasova

Chapter 16
Illegal Monuments: Memorials between Crime and State Endorsement
Nauskiaä El-Mecky

Chapter 17
Transnational Social Media Monuments, Counter Monuments, and the Future of the Nation-State
Johnny Alam

Section 6: Monument Culture: Strategies and Actions

Chapter 18
Citizens as Walking Memorials: Rethinking the Monument Genre in the 21st Century
Tanja Schult

Chapter 19
Exhibiting Spectacle and Recasting Memory: Commemorating the First World War in New Zealand
Kingsley Baird

Chapter 20
Dealing with a Dictatorial Past: Fascist Monuments and Conflicting Memory in Contemporary Italy
Flaminia Bartolini

Chapter 21
Avoiding Iconoclasm: How the Counter-Monument Could Settle a Monumental Debate
Scott McDonald

Section 7: Monument Culture Closing Essay

Chapter 22
On Creating a Useable Future: An Introduction to Future Monuments
Evander Price