Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects: From Mesolithic to Eco-queer

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Synopsis
Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument culture.　 Tracing historical developments in monuments alongside contemporary movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter, Houlton provides an in-depth critique of monument sites, as well as new critical and conceptual methodologies for thinking across the field. Alongside analysis of monuments to the Holocaust, colonial figures, and LGBTQIA+ subjects, this book provides new critical engagements with the work of D.W. Winnicott, Marion Milner, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, and others. Houlton traces the potential for monuments to exert great influence over our sense of self, nation, community, sexuality, and place in the world. Exploring the psychic and physical spaces these objects occupy—their aesthetics, affects, politics, and powers—this book considers how monuments can challenge our identities, beliefs, and our very notions of remembrance. The interdisciplinary nature of Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects means that it is ideally placed to intervene across several critical fields, particularly museum and heritage studies. It will also prove invaluable to those engaged in the study of monuments, psychoanalytic object relations, decolonization, queer ecology, radical death studies, and affect theory.
Copyright:
2022

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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
372 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780429588822
Related ISBNs:
9780367186753, 9780429197550, 9781032137506
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Thomas Houlton, The right of Thomas Houlton to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Psychology, Social Studies, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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