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Christopher Columbus and Juana Azurduy: Revising and Revisiting Historical Monuments in Argentina

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Published/Copyright: December 22, 2018
International Public History
From the journal International Public History Volume 1 Issue 2

Abstract

This article examines the recent disputed, intertwined re-sitings of Arnaldo Zocchi’s Monument to Christopher Columbus (1910) and Andrés Zerneri’s Monument to Juana Azurduy (2015) in Buenos Aires. It analyzes issues of commissioning and political motivation in President Kristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s call to remove the Columbus monument and the resulting backlash by civil society groups. The intervention by a head of state to uproot a monument dedicated to the Genovese navigator is just one of many ways in which distinct approaches to the legacy of Columbus is addressed in the transnational public sphere. This study will also consider the lack of memorials dedicated to women and First Nations in public space.

Keywords: Argentina; Buenos Aires; Christopher Columbus; Juana Azurduy; monuments
Published Online: 2018-12-22

© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/iph-2018-0013
Keywords for this article
Argentina; Buenos Aires; Christopher Columbus; Juana Azurduy; monuments

Articles in the same Issue

  1. FALLEN MONUMENTS
  2. Fallen Monuments: An Introduction
  3. Apples to Oranges? The American Monumental Landscape
  4. Christopher Columbus and Juana Azurduy: Revising and Revisiting Historical Monuments in Argentina
  5. Cooking the Books: Contested Colonial Commemorations in Australia
  6. The Destruction of the Monument to Humanity: Historical Conflict and Monumentalization
  7. The Limits of Iconoclasm: Soviet War Memorials since the End of Socialism
  8. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
  9. In Podcasts We Trust? A Brief Survey of Canadian Historical Podcasts
  10. Signs of the Times – A Historical Radio Feature
  11. The Background, Development and Problems of Public History in China
  12. INA – An Augmented TV
  13. Anniversary celebrations of the October Revolution
  14. Politics of Memory and Cinematography in Modern Russia: the October Revolution and the Civil War
  15. Review of Russian Exhibits and Media Projects on the Centennial of the Russian Revolution
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