Objectionable Commemorations
Ethical and Political Issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chong‐ming Lim (0000-0002-7888-6302, Nanyang Technological University, corresponding author), Ten‐herng Lai (0000-0001-9760-2240, University of Stirling) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12963 |
| OpenAlex | W4391508534 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 60 |
The term, "objectionable commemorations", refers to a broad category of public artefacts - such as, and especially, memorials, monuments and statues - that are regarded as morally problematic in virtue of what or whom they honour. In this regard, they are a special class of public artefacts that are subject to public contestation. In this paper, we survey the general ethical and political issues on this topic. First, we categorise the arguments on offer in the literature, concerning the objectionable nature of such commemorations. Second, we review common political responses to objectionable commemorations. Finally, we identify fruitful areas for further philosophical inquiry on this topic
Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
Commemorative Artefactual Speech
Commemoration and Constriction
Rediscovering the Past
Racist Monuments
Political Forgetting
Monumental empowerment
The affective injustice of colonial statues and monuments
The Ethics of Cancelling
Moral Exemplars and the Moral Community
Evaluating the Free Speech Objection to Removing Tainted Political Symbols
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Statues, History, and Identity
Remembrance and Denial of Genocide
Political vandalism as counter‐speech
Epistemic Injustice from Afar
Genocide Denial as Testimonial Oppression
Commemoration and Emotional Imperialism
‘Go Tell the Spartans, Passerby’
Against Simple Removal
Should Slavery’s Statues Be Preserved? On Transitional Justice and Contested Heritage
Commemorating Public Figures – In Favour of a Fictionalist Position
The Importance of History to the Erasing‐History Defence
From Charlottesville to the Nobel
Objectionable Commemorations, Historical Value, and Repudiatory Honouring
The Morality of State Symbolic Power
Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
False Exemplars
‘Look on my works ye mighty…’
Transforming problematic commemorations through vandalism
Must Rhodes Fall? The Significance of Commemoration in the Struggle for Relations of Respect
Curating the forensic gaze in traumatic memorial sites
Monumental changes
What is an appropriate educational response to controversial historical monuments
Colonial monuments as slurring speech acts
Please don't destroy until it's completely destroyed’
Monuments and monsters
In memoriam
Oppressive Things
The Rhodes Statue
It was a Different Time
Fieldwork in Familiar Places
Down with this sort of thing
Vandalizing Tainted Commemorations
Extractivist epistemologies
The ethics of historic preservation
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |