{"product_id":"monuments-decolonized-algerias-french-colonial-heritage-hardback-9781503632899","title":"Monuments Decolonized; Algeria's French Colonial Heritage (Hardback) 9781503632899","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMonuments Decolonized\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAlgeria's French Colonial Heritage\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan Slyomovics (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503632899\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e330 pages, 110 halftones, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.732 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This invaluable work unpacks the complexities of colonial and war monuments' signifiers, histories, and affects in Algeria and France. \u003ci\u003eMonuments Decolonized\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking textual and visual call for a 'transformative action.'\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Samia Henni, McGill University, author of \u003ci\u003eArchitecture of Counterrevolution\u003c\/i\u003e \"Susan Slyomovics not only provides an innovative analysis of French colonialism and its aftermath in Algeria through memorials, but also complicates current debates on the future of colonial statues elsewhere, including the US. \u003ci\u003eMonuments Decolonized\u003c\/i\u003e is a mosaic of fascinating examples that coalesce into a big narrative, asking heady questions about heritage, patrimony, 'nostalgeria,' re-use, appropriation, and erasure.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Zeynep Çelik, Columbia University, author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire, Architecture, and the City\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eMonuments Decolonized\u003c\/i\u003e assembles a magnificent array of ethnographic, visual, and historical materials tracing the deaths and afterlives of France's monuments erected in French-colonized Algeria. By studying these monuments' lives from their origins to the present, Susan Slyomovics has set a new and inspiring benchmark in settler-colonial studies and monument studies.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Mia Fuller, University of California, Berkeley, author of \u003ci\u003eModerns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e \"The insights Slyomovics illuminates in this book are not only important to understanding Algerian history but are also vital for understanding material culture in Africa and the larger world. \u003ci\u003eMonuments Decolonized\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential contribution to the fields of heritage studies and North African history, with profound knowledge into the intersections of memory, art, and politics. \u003ci\u003eMonuments Decolonized\u003c\/i\u003e is therefore essential for scholars, students, and anyone interested in the enduring impacts of colonialism on cultural landscapes.\"—Bankole Wright, \u003ci\u003eH-Material-Culture\u003c\/i\u003e \"[\u003ci\u003eMonuments Decolonized\u003c\/i\u003e] is an original and highly stimulating contribution to the debate on colonialism, its inertia and its divergent memories. It is based on a precise, well-documented and greatly illustrated study.\"—Nora Lafi, \u003ci\u003ePlanning Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Statuomania\" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meaning and some were \"repatriated\" to France, legally or clandestinely. Today, in both Algeria and France, people are moving and removing, vandalizing and preserving this contested, yet shared monumental heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Slyomovics follows the afterlives of French-built war memorials in Algeria and those taken to France. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in both countries and interviews with French and Algerian heritage actors and artists, she analyzes the colonial nostalgia, dissonant heritage, and ongoing decolonization and iconoclasm of these works of art. Monuments emerge here as objects with a soul, offering visual records of the colonized Algerian native, the European settler colonizer, and the contemporary efforts to engage with a dark colonial past. Richly illustrated with more than 100 color images, \u003ci\u003eMonuments Decolonized\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh aesthetic take on the increasingly global move to fell monuments that celebrate settler colonial histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610680652056,"sku":"9781503632899","price":82.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/monuments-decolonized-algerias-french-colonial-heritage-hardback-9781503632899","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}