Tours Inside the Snow Globe Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging | 14.58 MB
Title: Tours Inside the Snow Globe Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging
Author: Tonya K. Davidson
Category: Nonfiction, History, Canada, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Urban, Human Geography
Language: English | 420 Pages | ISBN: 9781771126038
Description:
The toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively loaded participants in society.
In the context of Ottawa, Canada's capital city, monuments inspire colonial and imperial nostalgia, compelling visitors to consistently re-imagine Canada as a white, Anglophone nation, built through the labour of white men: politicians, soldiers, and businessmen. At the same time, Ottawa monuments allow for dominant affective relationships to the nation to be challenged, demonstrated through subtle and explicit forms of defacement and other interactions that compel us to remember colonial violence, pacifism, violence against women, racisms.
Organized as a series of walking tours throughout Ottawa, the chapters in Tours Inside the Snow Globe demonstrate the affective capacities of monuments and highlight how these monuments have ongoing relationships with their sites, the city, other monuments, and local, deliberate,...
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