Memory and Monument Wars in American Cities - New York, Charlottesville and Montgomery (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)

This book is about the ways U.S. cities have responded to some of the most pressing political, cultural, racial issues of our time as agentic, remembering actors. Our case studies include New York City's securitized remembrances at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum; Charlottesville's Confederate monument controversies in the wake of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally; and Montgomery's "double consciousness" at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum. By tracing the genealogies that can be found across three contested cityscapes-New York, Charlottesville, and Montgomery-this book opens up new vistas for research for communication studies as it shows how cities are agentic actors that can wage "war" on urban landscapes as massive actor-networks struggling to remember (and forget). With the rise of sanctuary cities against nativistic immigration policies, "invasions" from white supremacists and neo-Nazis objecting to "the great replacement," and rhizomic uprisings of Black Lives Matter protests in response to lethal police force against persons of color, this timely book speaks to the emergent realities of how cities have become battlegrounds in America's continuing cultural wars.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Release date:	September 2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Marouf A Hasian Jr • Nicholas S. Paliewicz
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	152
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-053773-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Promotions
LSN:	3-03-053773-0
Barcode:	9783030537739

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