Protest, intervene, remove! Media representations and public reception of the international statue wars in Czechia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8134455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Průchová Hrůzová (0000-0002-2013-2436, Czech Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/17506980251409288 |
| OpenAlex | W7123346081 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
This article provides a case study examining the media coverage and public reception of the phenomenon of reparative statue wars, which re-emerged after the death of George Floyd through the Black Lives Matter movement. It investigates the mainstream Czech online daily iDnes.cz, and the articles mainly focused on de-commemorative actions in the United Kingdom and the Americas. First, it reads the texts to trace the framing of reparative histories, decolonization, and social injustice. Second, it scrutinizes photographs, revealing five basic visual frames that establish different dynamics between a viewer, depicted event, and monument. Finally, it analyzes discussions taking place in the comment section. It detects prominent historical analogies that readers draw between the current de-commemorative movement and the Czech(oslovak) modern past of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These comments are conceptualized as lay theories of history through which the national discourse of the so-called “repetitive history” meets and opposes the new transnational mnemonic regime of decoloniality
Czech · Framing (construction · Mainstream · Media event · Metaphor · Mnemonic · Phenomenon · Statue · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Visual culture · Central European national history · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
Memory in Culture
Present Pasts
Developing a Method of Critical Thematic Analysis for Qualitative Communication Inquiry
Toxic Monuments and Mnemonic Regime Change
Viral journalism. Strategy, tactics and limitations of the fast spread of content on social media
Deciding What’s News
Paranoid looking
Memory, Conflict and New Media
Theorising visual framing
Colonial Exceptionalism
Between discovery and exploitation of history
Visual symbols, democracy and memory
New constellations of mnemonic wars
Born digital
Black Lives Matter in Europe – EJWS special open forum
Collective regret versus collective guilt
Introduction to the Special Issue on Reframing Confederate Monuments
Imagining the Postcolonial in Central Eastern Europe
Ethnopopulism and democratic backsliding in Central Europe
Strangers ante portas
Interaction Ritual Chains
Soldier Statues and Empty Pedestals
A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework
From Mediatized Emotion to Digital Affect Cultures
Doing reparatory history
Comrades and spies
Restricted affiliation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |