Monuments and memory for our times

Authors

  • Partha Mitter Wolfson College, University of Oxford and University of Sussex
  • Amanda Jacobsen Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6963-2458

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47694/issn.2674-7758.v5.i14.2024.5976

Keywords:

Modernity. Monuments. Memorials. Collective Memory. National Identity. Forgetting.

Abstract

Global perspectives on monuments and memory are entangled in concepts of modernity, the nation, and history. This essay explores the complex and problematic relationships between monuments, collective memory, and national identity. It traces the key concepts and their origins that underpin these connections, drawing widely on diverse theories of memory elaborated during the twentieth century. It investigates the writing of history, and the embedding of progress in western concepts of history and modernity. It concludes that decisions to build memorials have entailed forgetting as much as selective remembrance, reflecting on the absence of public memorials in India and Pakistan to the genocide of Partition.

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Author Biographies

Partha Mitter, Wolfson College, University of Oxford and University of Sussex

Partha Mitter is a writer and historian of art and culture, specialising in the reception of Indian art in the West, as well as in modernity, art and identity in India, and more recently in global modernism. He studied history at London University and did his doctorate with E. H. Gombrich (1970). He began his career as Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge (1968-69) and Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge (1970-74). In 1974 he joined Sussex as a Lecturer in Indian History, retiring in 2002 as Professor in Art History.

Amanda Jacobsen, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná

Possui Licenciatura em Letras Português-Inglês pela Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - Campus Pato Branco (2014), mestrado em Letras pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (2016) e doutorado em Letras pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (2021), como bolsista Capes. Atualmente é professora adjunta do magistério superior na Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná

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Published

2024-06-03

How to Cite

MITTER, .; JACOBSEN, . Monuments and memory for our times. Escritas do Tempo, [S. l.], v. 5, n. 14, p. 59–76, 2024. DOI: 10.47694/issn.2674-7758.v5.i14.2024.5976. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unifesspa.edu.br/index.php/escritasdotempo/article/view/2855. Acesso em: 5 nov. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 14 (2024): Patrimônio Cultural

Section

v. 5 n. 14 (2024) Dossiê: Patrimônio Cultural

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