Set in Stone?:

Set in Stone?:

Memorials to white explorers and pioneers long stood (virtually) unchallenged in the heart of Australia’s towns and cities. By occupying civic space, they served to legitimise narratives of conquest and dispossession, colonising minds in the same ways ‘settlers’ seized vast tracts of territory.  Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruce Scates
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2021-06-01
Series:Public History Review
Subjects:
Monuments; 'difficult heritage'; statue wars; 'dialogical memorialisation; 'frontier wars'; memorialisation; 'Black Lives Matter'; 'truth-telling and reconciliation'; 'politics of remembrance'; Bi-Centenary; Fremantle; Bidyadanga; historical amnesia; Mabo; 'Uluru Statement from the Heart'; Remembrance
Online Access:https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/index.php/phrj/article/view/7494

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https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/index.php/phrj/article/view/7494

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