Redefining Monuments

Daniel Palacios González is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at UNED, UK and previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He holds a PhD in Art History from the Universität zu Köln, Germany, where he was an MSCA Fellow. He is the author of Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain (2024) and De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria (2022), which received the Memory Studies Association First Book Award in 2023. He is a member of the research project NECROPOL at the Universitat de Barcelona.José María Durán Medraño currently teaches Cultural Studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, Germany. He holds a PhD in Art History from the UNED and in Philosophy from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His publications include the books La crítica de la economía política del arte (2015) and Iconoclasia, historia del arte y lucha de clases (2009). He is a member of the research Project PERMORIA at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

• Chapter 1: The radical redefinition of monuments.- Chapter 2: The ideological conquest of history; Or what people do when they erect, demolish and occupy monuments.- Chapter 3: The Stones of Politics.- Chapter 4: Statues of enslavers and their role in the culture wars.- Chapter 5: Materialist Approaches to Monument-Making in Socialist Yugoslavia.- Chapter 6: Counter monuments and the ideology of memory.- Chapter 7: Contributions to a materialist critique of cultural heritage.- Chapter 8: For Marxist Intersectional Memory Studies.- Chapter 9: The landscape of memories of the Pan-American highway in Chile.- Chapter 10: Leninplatz, an unpleasant corpse.- Chapter 11: Perplexity and ambivalence: Making sense of the people’s ‘relationship’ to the Joshua Nkomo statue in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.- Chapter 12: Institutional and Non-institutional Monuments as Reflections of Political Antagonisms in Athens.- Chapter 13: Toxic Monuments in Spain.- Chapter 14: The Berlin Wall: an unintentional anti-fascist monument.- Chapter 15: Preliminary notes for a theory of iconoclasm as a mechanism of ideological recognition.