When monuments fall
Anticolonial disruptions and decolonial urban practices (2022) Plenary Commentary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11670488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Marietta Ramírez (0000-0002-2325-9790, Simon Fraser University, corresponding author), Tsatia Adzich (Simon Fraser University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1084-1092 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02723638.2023.2217619 |
| OpenAlex | W4381510977 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
In this commentary on Laura Pulido’s plenary, “Cultural Memory, White Innocence, and United States Territory”, we reflect on the significance of colonial monuments and their toppling in the Canadian context. Thinking through the 2022 toppling of the John “Gassy Jack” Deighton monument, we consider how this act disrupts the settler colonial city and spatial and ideological manifestations of cultural memory. Reading settler texts on Deighton’s “founding” of the Gastown neighborhood through a feminist and anticolonial lens, we insist that the monument erased gendered histories of Indigenous genocide and upheld a particular cultural memory of white settler innocence. Engaging with Squamish cultural memory and the poetry of Toyts-ten-aat Cease Wyss, we consider what it would mean to center decolonial spatial practices and Squamish geographies. Lastly, we explore the complicated politics surrounding the toppling of the Gassy Jack statue, torn down without Squamish consultation, revealing distinctions between anticolonial and decolonial spatial practices
Archaeology · Collective memory · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Cultural memory · Ideology · Indigenous · Innocence · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |