TY - JOUR
AU - Bonita Bennett
AU - Bonny Ibhawoh
AU - Alex Lichtenstein
AU - Daniel Walkowitz
AB - The Black Lives Matter social movement in the United States reverberated worldwide and spurred renewed attention by antiracist activists to memorials—and by counterprotestors who supported the memorials. These “memorial wars” built on a half century of emergent community activism and a legacy of a triumphalist tradition of war monuments and celebrations of typically male political leaders. In the revolutionary struggles of 1989 to 1992, corresponding to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of apartheid in South Africa, “fallism”—the uprooting of discredited old regimes—inaugurated a convention of tearing down memorials. The eleven contributions in this issue reflect a post-BLM iteration of this past marked by bottom-up social movement memory activism with expanded memorial subjects that invite audiences into the memory project. © 2025 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc.
DO - 10.1215/01636545-11610010
M1 - 152
N1 - Type: Editorial
N2 - The Black Lives Matter social movement in the United States reverberated worldwide and spurred renewed attention by antiracist activists to memorials—and by counterprotestors who supported the memorials. These “memorial wars” built on a half century of emergent community activism and a legacy of a triumphalist tradition of war monuments and celebrations of typically male political leaders. In the revolutionary struggles of 1989 to 1992, corresponding to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of apartheid in South Africa, “fallism”—the uprooting of discredited old regimes—inaugurated a convention of tearing down memorials. The eleven contributions in this issue reflect a post-BLM iteration of this past marked by bottom-up social movement memory activism with expanded memorial subjects that invite audiences into the memory project. © 2025 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc.
SP - 1
EP - 11
TI - Memory over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials, and Intangible Heritage
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105007034331&doi=10.1215%2f01636545-11610010&partnerID=40&md5=f00365f362d470cf7fd16b263989b8f4
VL - 2025
ER -