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Memory and Monument Wars in American Cities

New York, Charlottesville and Montgomery

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Authors:
  1. Marouf A. Hasian Jr.

    1. Department of Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

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  2. Nicholas S. Paliewicz

    1. Department of Communication, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA

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  • Outlines how U.S. cities have responded to some of the most pressing political, cultural, racial issues of our time
  • Explains how cities are agentic actors that can wage “war” on urban landscapes as massive actor-networks struggling to remember (and forget)
  • Speaks to the emergent realities of how cities have become battlegrounds in America’s continuing cultural wars

Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction: US Cities’ Agentic Role in Twenty-First-Century Memory and Monument Wars

    • Marouf A. Hasian Jr., Nicholas S. Paliewicz
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Fortification of New York City: Post-9/11 Memorialization and the Localization of the War on Terror

    • Marouf A. Hasian Jr., Nicholas S. Paliewicz
    Pages 21-57

  4. Civil Lawfare, Remembrances of Lost Causes, and Charlottesville’s Confederate Monument Controversies

    • Marouf A. Hasian Jr., Nicholas S. Paliewicz
    Pages 59-95

  5. Montgomery, “Racial Terror” Lynching Remembrances, and Municipal Quests for American Truth and Reconciliation

    • Marouf A. Hasian Jr., Nicholas S. Paliewicz
    Pages 97-133

  6. The Future Roles of Remembering and Forgetting for Agentic Twenty-First-Century Cities

    • Marouf A. Hasian Jr., Nicholas S. Paliewicz
    Pages 135-149

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 151-152
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About this book

This book is about the ways U.S. cities have responded to some of the most pressing political, cultural, racial issues of our time as agentic, remembering actors. Our case studies include New York City’s securitized remembrances at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum; Charlottesville’s Confederate monument controversies in the wake of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally; and Montgomery’s “double consciousness” at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum. By tracing the genealogies that can be found across three contested cityscapes—New York, Charlottesville, and Montgomery—this book opens up new vistas for research for communication studies as it shows how cities are agentic actors that can wage “war” on urban landscapes as massive actor-networks struggling to remember (and forget). With the rise of sanctuary cities against nativistic immigration policies, “invasions” from white supremacists and neo-Nazis objecting to “the great replacement,” and rhizomic uprisings of Black Lives Matter protests in response to lethal police force against persons of color, this timely book speaks to the emergent realities of how cities have become battlegrounds in America’s continuing cultural wars.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

    Marouf A. Hasian Jr.

  • Department of Communication, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA

    Nicholas S. Paliewicz

About the authors

Marouf A. Hasian Jr. is Distinguished Professor and Co-Chair of communication at the University of Utah, USA. He is author of Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures (2014), and more than a dozen other books.

 

Nicholas S. Paliewicz is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Louisville, USA. He is co-author of The Securitization of Memorial Space and Racial Terrorism: A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching (2019) and has authored essay in journals such as Argumentation and Advocacy, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, and Environmental Communication.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Memory and Monument Wars in American Cities

  • Book Subtitle: New York, Charlottesville and Montgomery

  • Authors: Marouf A. Hasian Jr., Nicholas S. Paliewicz

  • Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53771-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53770-8Published: 17 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53773-9Published: 18 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53771-5Published: 16 September 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6257

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 152

  • Topics: Media and Communication, Memory Studies, International Relations

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