[Linganth] today on the blog - Susan Slyomovics

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Sultan Doughan, Dan Hicks and Susan Slyomovics chat
about repatriating Algerian monuments and archives.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: "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.

Susan 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, *Monuments Decolonized* offers
a fresh aesthetic take on the increasingly global move to fell monuments
that celebrate settler colonial histories.
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