From "Crisis" to Imagination : Putting White Heroes Under Erasure Post-George Floyd

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Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Ana Cristina
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/48873
Resumo: In the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, global protests against racialized police brutality targeted statues and other public art forms symbolizing racism. Either framed as a “weird global media event” or “global iconic event,” Floyd’s murder forced a reckoning with histories of oppression and systemic racism, with a potential enduring social effect and a transnational historical significance by inviting resonance and global solidarity. This article focuses on the U.K. context and spans a decade to invite a rethinking of ideas of crisis, history, and hero through a consideration of the toppling of Edward Colston’s statue and its pushing into the Bristol Harbour on June 7, 2020, by Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters, and Yinka Shonibare CBE’s artwork Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle (2010–2012), commissioned for the “Fourth Plinth” temporary exhibits in Trafalgar Square. Such consideration bears on this contemporary moment when we are witnessing globally connected protest actions calling for the decolonization of public material culture.
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title From "Crisis" to Imagination : Putting White Heroes Under Erasure Post-George Floyd
spellingShingle From "Crisis" to Imagination : Putting White Heroes Under Erasure Post-George Floyd
Mendes, Ana Cristina
Postcolonial studies
Visual culture
Cultural studies
Public space
Victorian cultural studies
Material culture
Monuments
Horatio Nelson
Edward Colston
Yinka Shonibare
title_short From "Crisis" to Imagination : Putting White Heroes Under Erasure Post-George Floyd
title_full From "Crisis" to Imagination : Putting White Heroes Under Erasure Post-George Floyd
title_fullStr From "Crisis" to Imagination : Putting White Heroes Under Erasure Post-George Floyd
title_full_unstemmed From "Crisis" to Imagination : Putting White Heroes Under Erasure Post-George Floyd
title_sort From "Crisis" to Imagination : Putting White Heroes Under Erasure Post-George Floyd
author Mendes, Ana Cristina
author_facet Mendes, Ana Cristina
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Mendes, Ana Cristina
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Postcolonial studies
Visual culture
Cultural studies
Public space
Victorian cultural studies
Material culture
Monuments
Horatio Nelson
Edward Colston
Yinka Shonibare
topic Postcolonial studies
Visual culture
Cultural studies
Public space
Victorian cultural studies
Material culture
Monuments
Horatio Nelson
Edward Colston
Yinka Shonibare
description In the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, global protests against racialized police brutality targeted statues and other public art forms symbolizing racism. Either framed as a “weird global media event” or “global iconic event,” Floyd’s murder forced a reckoning with histories of oppression and systemic racism, with a potential enduring social effect and a transnational historical significance by inviting resonance and global solidarity. This article focuses on the U.K. context and spans a decade to invite a rethinking of ideas of crisis, history, and hero through a consideration of the toppling of Edward Colston’s statue and its pushing into the Bristol Harbour on June 7, 2020, by Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters, and Yinka Shonibare CBE’s artwork Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle (2010–2012), commissioned for the “Fourth Plinth” temporary exhibits in Trafalgar Square. Such consideration bears on this contemporary moment when we are witnessing globally connected protest actions calling for the decolonization of public material culture.
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