Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
Historians, anthropologists, and other scholars explore the public presentation of contested historical narratives in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world.
Review Quotes: "[A] rich and interesting volume. . . . The contributors are well chosen, the essays unusually consistent, and the topics, juxtaposed rather than braided, convey precisely what the editors hoped for: that public spaces are used, abused, and 'contested, ' perhaps especially when the subject turns to the commemoration of empire, no matter where they are. . . . It is sure to have a powerful impact on the way we think about the struggle over space and representation in the dusk of older empires and in the dawn of newer
ones."--Matthew Pratt Guterl, Museum Anthropology Review
"[T]his is an intellectually stimulating volume with great applicability for many new and future venues for analysis."--
Hong-Ming Liang,
Journal of Intercultural Studies "Perhaps the greatest strength of this compilation is how the authors capture the vigorous contestation that can arise between advocates with radically opposed sentiments, allegiances, outlooks and agendas. With the devil generally being in the details, the particulars in these examples reflect the categorical messiness, the fluidity, the complexities, the shifting loyalties, the unpredictability and the undeniably fascinating nature of such cultural conflicts. . . . [A] reader hungry for insight into the politics of representation on an international scale will find much to chew on in
Contested Histories in Public Spaces."--
Steven Dublin,
Reviews in History "Public historians--whether academics or practitioners--will find much of value within the pages of
Contested Histories. . . . Walkowitz and Knauer have compiled a rich and instructive collection of essays that, together, demonstrate the 'international and spatial reach' of complex historical debates as they played out in a diverse array of public spaces."--
Andrea Thabet,
The Public Historian "This is a provocative, reflective and well-balanced collection and makes a key contribution to the field of public history."--
Australian Historical Studies
