Ruiz Peralta, Nadia (2023) Countermonumentality and memory: the case of the Glorieta de Colón monument in Mexico City. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Abstract
The Christopher Columbus monument on Reforma Avenue in Mexico City stood for over one hundred years. However, since the turn of the twenty-first century, the monument has become the target of countermonumental actions. This research project questions the entanglement between countermonumentality, collective memory, and heritage through the analysis of the materiality at the site of the monument. Themes of feminism, anti-monumentality, public space appropriation, and the use of archaeological artifacts to construct a state-sanctioned history arose via this study.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| URI: | http://research.library.mun.ca/id/eprint/16161 |
| Item ID: | 16161 |
| Additional Information: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-131) |
| Keywords: | monumentality, collective memory, counter-monumentality, heritage, archaeology of the contemporary world |
| Department(s): | Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of > Archaeology |
| Date: | July 2023 |
| Date Type: | Submission |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.48336/6XHQ-B986 |
| Library of Congress Subject Heading: | Collective memory--Mexico--Mexico City; Columbus, Christopher--Mexico--Mexico City; Glorieta de Colón--Monuments--Mexico--Mexico City; Monuments-- Political aspects--Mexico--Mexico City |
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