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dc.contributor.authorBallantyne, Tony
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-19T12:17:17Z
dc.date.available2024-09-19T12:17:17Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-22
dc.identifier.citationTony Ballantyne, Toppling the Past?: Statues, Public Memory and the Afterlife of Empire in Contemporary New Zealand, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 1–8.it_IT
dc.identifier.issn1833-4989it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v28i0.7503it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7351
dc.description.abstractThis article explores some of the recent debates over statues, memorials and cultures of commemoration in New Zealand. These 'statue wars' are particularly focused on explorers, military men, colonial governors, and even Queen Victoria herself, figures who are seen as being deeply implicated in the production of the persistent inequalities and pain that has resulted from colonialism and empire. My analysis particularly focuses on the city of Tūranga/Gisborne, James Cook's first landing place in New Zealand and a location where there has a sequence of heated debates over Cook's legacies and a series of attacks on statues of the navigator. It explores three ways in which the city's landscape of memory has been reshaped: the removal of a contentious 1969 statue, the creative redevelopment of a long-standing historic reserve, and the erection of a statue to a key Ngāti Oneone tupuna (ancestor). This discussion particularly highlights the work and arguments of the Ngāti Oneone historian and artist, Nick Tupara. The final section of the essay turns to the author's own location - Ōtepoti/Dunedin - and offers a reading of debates over statues in that city, underlining the pivotal importance of indigenous perspectives on history and public space.it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0it_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectStatuesit_IT
dc.subjectColonialismit_IT
dc.subjectCommemorationit_IT
dc.subjectNew Zealandit_IT
dc.titleToppling the Past? Statues, Public Memory and the Afterlife of Empire in Contemporary New Zealandit_IT
dc.typeJournal Articleit_IT
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPublic History Reviewit_IT
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v28i0.7503it_IT
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