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dc.contributor.authorGregory, Jenny
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-19T12:26:45Z
dc.date.available2024-09-19T12:26:45Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-22
dc.identifier.citationJenny Gregory, Dark Pasts in the Landscape: Statue Wars in Western Australia, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 1–9it_IT
dc.identifier.issn1833-4989it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v28i0.7504it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7352
dc.description.abstractIn an era of reconciliation and truth-telling, many have questioned the symbolic power of statues. A storm of controversy across the globe galvanised an electric energy in which many statues were damaged or toppled. Statues became lightning rods for social conflict. This article explores earlier clashes over statues in Perth in the late 1970s and 1980s, revealing that while the statue of a colonial figure was untouchable despite the dark side of his history, the statue of an Aboriginal leader erected to recognise Western Australia’s First Peoples was decapitated. The article concludes with a discussion of methods for dealing with the dark history of these silent sentinels from the past.it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0it_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectStatuesit_IT
dc.subjectWestern Australiait_IT
dc.subjectAboriginalit_IT
dc.subjectColonialit_IT
dc.subjectFrontierit_IT
dc.subjectHistoryit_IT
dc.titleDark Pasts in the Landscape: Statue Wars in Western Australiait_IT
dc.typeJournal Articleit_IT
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPublic History Reviewit_IT
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v28i0.7504it_IT
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