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Monuments --- Memorials --- Collective memory --- Postcolonialism --- Political aspects --- Political aspects --- Africa, Southern --- Colonial influence.

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The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain the attempt to remove a statue of one of Oxford’s most famous benefactors, the imperialist Cecil Rhodes, has spread to other universities and their benefactors, and now also affects civic monuments and statues in towns and cities across the country. In the United States, memorials to leaders of the Confederacy in the American Civil War and to other slaveholders have been the subject of intense dispute. Should we continue to honour benefactors and historic figures whose actions are now deemed ethically unacceptable? How can we reconcile the views held by our ancestors with those we now hold today? Should we even try, acknowledging, in the words of the novelist L. P. Hartley, that ‘the past is another country; they do things differently there’? The essays in this interdisciplinary collection are drawn from a conference at the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London. Historians, fundraisers, a sociologist and a museum director examine these current issues from different perspectives, with an introductory essay by Sir David Cannadine, president of the British Academy. Together they explore an emerging conflict between the past and present, history and ideology, and benefactors and their critics.

Educational benefactors. --- Monuments --- Universities and colleges --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Finance --- Finance. --- Patrons of education --- Benefactors

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Presents the history of the governance of cultural and natural heritage in eleven countries, from its outset onwards.

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The degree to which the late colonial era affected Europe has been for long underappreciated, and only recently have European countries started to acknowledge not having come to terms with decolonisation. In Belgium, the past two decades have witnessed a growing awareness of the controversial episodes in the country's colonial past. This volume examines the long-term effects and legacies of the colonial era on Belgium after 1960, the year the Congo gained its independence, and calls into question memories of the colonial past by focusing on the meaning and place of colonial monuments in public space. The book foregrounds the enduring presence of 'empire' in everyday Belgian life in the form of permanent colonial markers in bronze and stone, lieux de mémoires of the country's history of overseas expansion. By means of photographs and explanations of major pro-colonial memorials, as well as several obscure ones, the book reveals the surprising degree to which Belgium became infused with a colonialist spirit during the colonial era. Another key component of the analysis is an account of the varied ways that both Dutch- and French-speaking Belgians approached the colonial past after 1960, treating memorials variously as objects of veneration, with indifference, or as symbols to be attacked or torn down. The book provides a thought-provoking reflection on culture, colonialism, and the remainders of empire in Belgium after 1960.

Belgium --- History. --- Monuments - Belgium - Public opinion --- Memorials - Belgium - Public opinion --- Public opinion - Belgium - History - 20th century --- Opinion publique --- Mémoire --- Monument historique --- Mémorial --- Histoire --- Colonie --- Belgique --- Belgium - Colonies - Public opinion - History - 20th century --- Monuments --- Memorials --- Public opinion --- Public opinion. --- History --- 1900-1999 --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Commemorations --- Historic sites --- Memorialization --- Historical monuments --- Architecture --- Sculpture --- Public sculpture --- Statues --- colonialism --- memory --- culture and empire --- monuments --- the Belgian Congo --- Walloon identity --- Belgian history and culture --- postcolonialism --- Flemish identity

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"The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how architectural objects and societies' relationship to the built environment change over time. Using the pairing of two living medieval monuments in Southern Rajasthan--the Ambika Temple in Jagat, Rajasthan, and the Ékalingji Temple Complex in Kailaspuri--the author underscores many aspects of practice and avoids focusing simply on their divergent sectarian affiliations or patronage structures. This book offers new and extremely valuable questions about these important monuments, such as the entangled politics of antiquity and whether a monument's ritual record is affirmed as continuous and hence hoary, or dismissed as discontinuous or reinvented through various strategies. The Hegemony of Heritage engages theoretical constructs with the richness of ethnographic description and asks us to rethink notions such as archive and text through the filter of sculpture and mantra."--Provided by publisher.

Hindu sculpture --- Hindu architecture --- Hindu temples --- Mandiras --- Mandirs --- Temples, Hindu --- Hinduism --- Temples --- Architecture, Hindu --- Religious architecture --- Sculpture, Hindu --- Hindu art --- Sculpture --- ambika temple. --- antiquity. --- architecture. --- archive. --- asian history. --- common practice. --- eklingji temple. --- entangled politics. --- environment. --- ethnographic description. --- history of hinduism. --- important monuments. --- india history. --- jagat. --- kailashpuri. --- mantra. --- medieval. --- monuments. --- patronage structures. --- rajasthan. --- rituals. --- sculpture. --- sectarian affiliations. --- societies. --- theoretical constructs.