Monuments of Meaning

Power, Protest, and Public Memory in Aotearoa New Zealand
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-85189-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Global Perspectives on Public History

Monuments of Meaning brings together a diverse interdisciplinary team of contributors to explore and analyze the ‘Statue Wars’ of contested monuments and place names in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

In the wake of renewed global attention to colonial history sparked by Black Lives Matter, statues and place names became focal points for national debate. The 2020 Hamilton protests, part of the local ‘statue wars,’ highlighted deep divisions over Captain John Hamilton: admired by some as a noble namesake, yet condemned by many Maori as a symbol of colonial violence and Crown expansion. Following protests and a request from Waikato-Tainui, the statue was removed, reigniting conversations about restoring the city’s original name, Kirikiriroa, and reconsidering street names associated with figures such as John Bryce and Gustavus von Tempsky. Yet Hamilton was only the latest chapter in a longer history of contested monuments and places. Across Aotearoa New Zealand, European explorers, settlers, and imperial figures were commemorated in statues, streets, lakes, schools, and institutions, often marginalising Maori heritage. This volume brings together contributors from Maori history, town planning, church history, feminist studies, environmental planning, human rights advocacy, the arts, imperial history, and military history to examine the ways communities reject, accommodate, reconfigure or celebrate the nation’s monuments.

This book will be of interests to students and researchers of colonial and postcolonial history, cultural studies, and New Zealand history.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Claasen, Adam

Griffiths, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Contested memorialisation in Aotearoa New Zealand: local, imperial, and global contexts, John Griffiths and Adam Claasen, 1. Wounded Auckland: Colonial heritage and indigenous resistance at the Albert Barracks Wall, Rowan Light, 2. Selective memories? Memorialising Bohemian settlement in Puhoi and Ohaupo, Judith Pryor, 3. A Joint Work of Remembrance: The Treaty of Waitangi House and Monument at Te Tii Waitangi, Samuel D. Carpenter, 4. Ettie Rout the Anzac Angel and Wicked Woman: Commemorating New Zealand's Sexual Health Pioneer, Xanthe Rose and Katie Pickles, 5. Nga tapuwae o nga Tupuna: Walking in the Footprints of our Ancestors, Kataraina Belshaw O'Brien, 6. The renaming of Von Tempsky Street: A case study of historical revisionism in Aotearoa New Zealand, Peter Wood, 7. Whakamaharatanga Hoia o Te Arawa: Commemorating the contributions of Te Arawa men to the First World War, Taine Harvey, 8. The Legacy of Captain Cook: Iconoclasm, Counter-Monuments and Artistic Responses, Karen A. Blennerhassett, 9. While the mountain sleeps: Memories of the New Zealand Wars under Taranaki Maunga, Elliot Collins, 10. Art as Orientation: How Maori Design Restores Memory and Meaning in Tamaki Makaurau, Olivia Haddon Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Claasen is a Senior Lecturer and historian at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, specializing in war and society studies and Aotearoa New Zealand’s military experience. A Smithsonian Fellowship grantee and Fulbright awardee, his most recent publication is Grid: The life and times of fighter ace Keith Caldwell (2024).

John Griffiths is Academic Mentor/Student Success Tutor at the London College of Contemporary Arts, United Kingdom. He spent over twenty years as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Massey University. He is author of Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities 1880–1914 (2014). Empire and Popular Culture (Routledge 4 vols, 2021–22) and articles that have appeared in journals such as Social History, Urban History and Imperial and Commonwealth History. He lives in London and Suffolk.