Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction. Making Sense of De-Commemoration 1
6. Part I. De-Commemoration after Regime Change
7. Chapter 1. Baptizing and Unbaptizing in Algeria: From French Colonization to National Independence 19
8. Chapter 2. Street Renaming in Postsocialist Romania: A Quantitative Analysis of Toponymic Change 27
9. Chapter 3. “Th e First Bolshevik Leaves Riga”: Th e De-Commemoration of Vladimir I. Lenin in Riga, Latvia (1987–1991) 37
10. Chapter 4. “In Memory of the Fallen . . .” But for How Long? Th e De-Commemoration of German War Memorials in Poland after 1945 45
11. Chapter 5. Naming to Erase, Renaming to Restore: (Re)Indigenizing the Landscape 56
12. Chapter 6. Removing Rhodes from His Pedestal: De-Commemoration in Postcolonial South Africa 65
13. Chapter 7. Contrasting Fates of Lenin Statues in Ukraine and Russia 73
14. Chapter 8. Beyond the Monument: Unmaking the Valley of the Fallen in Contemporary Spain 83
15. Part II. De-Commemoration and Societal Transformation
16. Chapter 9. Renaming and the Relationship between Colonized and Colonizer: Th e Role of Commemoration within Dual Place Names in New Zealand 95
17. Chapter 10. De-Canonization of the Soviet Past: Abject, Kitsch, and Memory 106
18. Chapter 11. Diversifying Public Commemorations in Cape Town and Copenhagen 114
19. Chapter 12. De-Commemoration as Healing and Confl ict: Canada and Its Colonial Past and Present 124
20. Chapter 13. Killing Pedro de Valdivia Again: De-Commemoration of the Past and De-Neoliberalization of the Present during the 2019–2020 Chilean Revolt 134
21. Chapter 14. De-Commemorating Sound: Controversies about the Reestablishment of the National Anthem in South Korea and Beyond 143
22. Chapter 15. Do Commemorations Have an “Expiration Date”? A Case Study from Belgium 150
23. Part III. De-Commemoration to Propel Change
24. Chapter 16. De-Commemorating Australian Settler Colonialism 161
25. Chapter 17. Th e Present Is All Th at Matters: De-Commemoration Practices in Israel 170
26. Chapter 18. De-Commemorations and the Unsettled Past in Contemporary Brazil 181
27. Chapter 19. Decolonizing Colonial Monuments: Counter-Memory Activism in Madrid and Barcelona 190
28. Chapter 20. Transnational Memory Struggles: Guerrilla Remembrances in Colombia and Venezuela in the 2000s 201
29. Chapter 21. “Next Stop Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Strasse”: Place Names, De-Commemoration, and Memory Activism in Berlin 210
30. Chapter 22. From Decapitation to Destruction: Making Sense of Toppling Statues in Contemporary Martinique 221
31. Chapter 23. De-Commemoration in Great Britain 230
32. Chapter 24. Th e Role of Nonprofits in De-Commemoration: Th e Southern Poverty Law Center’s Whose Heritage? Report 238
33. Part IV. De-Commemoration as Smoke Screen
34. Chapter 25. De-Commemoration without Decolonization? Th e Peculiar Case of the Philippines 251
35. Chapter 26. Twice Removed: Th e Mystery of Manila’s Missing Comfort Woman Monument 261
36. Chapter 27. Counter-Memory and State De-Commemoration: Th e Khavaran Mass Grave in Iran 270
37. Chapter 28. Th e Toppling of the Equestrian Statue and the Future of Colonial-Era Memorials in Namibia 280
38. Chapter 29. An Unmarked Rebellion: Th e Politics of Forgetting Denmark Vesey 287
39. Chapter 30. Exploring the Scope of De-Commemoration: Touring Trafalgar Square in London and Beyond 297
40. Part V. De-Commemoration to Challenge Memory
41. Chapter 31. From De-Commemoration of Names to Reparative Namescapes: Geographical Case Studies in the United States 309
42. Chapter 32. De-Commemoration under the Law: Th e Removal of Statues in France and the United States 319
43. Chapter 33. Human Rights and Toppled Statues: Can the European Convention on Human Rights Provide Solutions to De-Commemoration Disputes? 327
44. Chapter 34. Re-Commemoration: What Other Stories Can We Tell? Observing Ordinary People Engaging with Monuments in Public Space 336
45. Chapter 35. Who Cares about Old Statues and Street Names? Resisting Change and the Protracted Decommunization of Public Space in Poland 344
46. Chapter 36. Keeping the Past from Freezing: Augmented Reality and Memories in the Public Space 355
47. Chapter 37. De-Commemorating White Supremacy through the Act of Voting 367
48. Index 377