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(UN)COMMEMORATION IN PUBLIC SPACE
Karolina IZDEBSKA1
Publication language: English
scientific paper
Transformations No. 2(125)2025, Publication date: 30 June 2025
Keywords: memory, monuments, antimonuments, countermonuments, non-monuments, public space
Abstract The aim of this article is to analyse selected artistic practices in public space in terms of different types of interventions into cultural heritage and tradition-al notions of memory. The analysis undertaken details different types of these prac-tices in terms of their form and function, such as monuments, anti-monuments, counter-monuments and non-monuments. Nowadays, both monuments and alterna-tive (un)commemorating objects/activities can serve as a kind of barometer of social moods, tensions and social changes within norms and values. At the same time, it should be emphasised that the case study should include the socio-historical context, because although certain global trends can be found in the studied objects/activities, they always have their local specificity. Without an understanding of this context, it is not possible to fully understand specific (un)commemorating practices.
PhD, associate professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Szczecin Poland
ORCID: 0000-0001-8179 3185
E-mail: karolina.izdebska@usz.edu.pl