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Agonistic interventions into public commemorative art: An innovative form of counter‐memorial practice?
Author(s) -
Cento Bull Anna,
Clarke David
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
constellations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1467-8675
pISSN - 1351-0487
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8675.12484
Subject(s) - agonistic behaviour , psychological intervention , sociology , environmental ethics , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , aggression , psychiatry
In light of recent controversies around the removal or modification of public commemorative art, such as memorials and monuments, this paper interrogates the value of competing approaches to counter-memorial practice using the framework of agonistic memory. It argues that much counter-memorial practice today, as it relates to historical memory, is dominated by a “cosmopolitan” mode that fails to offer a convincing response to the rise of right-wing populism and its instrumentalization of conflicts over public commemorative art. The article investigates two case studies of counter-memorial interventions that focus on the memory of fascism in Europe today and seeks to identify and assess emergent agonistic practices.