Columbus, Juana and the Politics of the Plaza
Battles over Monuments, Memory and Identity in Buenos Aires
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3365295 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cheryl Jiménez Frei (0000-0001-9654-4667, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 03 |
| Pages | 607-638 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022216x18001086 |
| OpenAlex | W2980247791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
In 2013, Argentina's then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sparked controversy for her decision to replace a monument of Christopher Columbus in Buenos Aires with one of nineteenth-century mestiza revolutionary Juana Azurduy. This article examines the history and iconography of these monuments, exploring the intersections between public space, art, politics and memory. It argues that these monuments - one representing Argentina's previously maligned Italian immigrant heritage, the other its forgotten indigenous culture - demonstrate how fundamental struggles over national identity have been embedded and contested in the capital's urban landscape, in ways that remain influential. It highlights Argentina's 1910 centennial and 2010 bicentennial as key to these efforts, and examines the power/politics of place in the central plaza where various actors have fought for public commemorative representation
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Centennial · Ethnology · Humanities · Iconography · Identity (music) · Indigenous · National identity · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Power (physics) · Public space · Representation (politics) · Shadow (psychology) · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America
For whom the eye cries
Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship
Cousins and Strangers
The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940
Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves
Indigenous Struggles and Contested Identities in Argentina Histories of Invisibilization and Reemergence
Monuments and Commemorations
Memories and silences of a segregated city
The Cult of the Centenary, c.1784–1914
Memorial Fragments, Monumental Silences and Reawakenings in 21st-Century Chile
When Argentina Was “French”
Mapping Latin America
Imagining Mexico in 1910
Mexico City
La grilla y el parque
Ricardo Rojas and the Emergence of Argentine Cultural Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |