Over the course of human history, symbols and monuments have invoked violent impulses and destruction.
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Australia has more than 200 Big Things, from the heritage-listed Pineapple to a giant Captain Cook. What are we to do with these structures as they age and decay? And should we be building new ones?
Many of our public commemorations honour people and incidents that brought great harm to others. We need to look at what that says about us, and how we build more inclusive public memorials.
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it’s better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
A scholar of southern politics finds inspiration in an unexpected place.
September is celebrated as heritage month in South Africa. How to get it right? A revisit to a national newspaper’s decade-old, ambitious project is a good yardstick to use.
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Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Research Fellow, Centre of Critical Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University
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Adjunct professor and adjunct senior lecturer in tourism management, Adelaide University
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PhD Student, University of Victoria
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Professor, Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, Tufts University
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Visiting Fellow in History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of History, The University of Melbourne
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Lecturer Department of African Studies and Linguistics, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Geography, University of Victoria
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Associate Professor, Media, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
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Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in History, specialising in built heritage and material culture, University of the Sunshine Coast